Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Palm synchro

[Bob Crandell]

How does IntelliSync do it?  They have been a good solution to syncing with
Exchange and Groupwise and Notes (I think).


Ben Cottrill (address@hidden) wrote*:
>
>Hi,
>
>One thing keeping us tied to microsoft solutions is the contingent of PHBs who
>need to sync their palm to a group calendar. (Switching their desktops to
>linux is not an option...)
>
>Has anyone worked on a windows solution?  Or even though about where to begin?
>It sounds from the recent discussion like the server side logic for palm
>syncing will be hammered out soon, at which point it becomes a desktop issue.
>
>Would any of the following approaches (for windows users) be valid?
>
>1. find a windows alternative to hotsync that can be hacked at- work from
>there.  (Or is there a way to get coldsync to work on windows?)
>2. TrueSync integration?  (looks proprietary, but Yahoo and Excite calendars
>uses it)
>3. Email items created in the group calendars to recipients in the winmail.dat
>format, and let outlook insert the stuff into members' calendars. -- I don't
>think there is much documentation on this, but it is nice in that all the
>users who are super dependent on outlook to pop up reminders and sync their
>palms to outlook are able to take advantage of the phpgw goodness.
>4.  Plugin for MS outlook that connects to phpgw via xmlrpc or syncml?  Users
>can then sync their palms in outlook and the plugins would magically zap data
>back and forth to the phpgw server.
>
>I don't know enough about MS outlook to know whether any of these are viable,
>but I do know that the end result would make phpgw a very attractive
>alternative to small companies that would rather not spend $10K+ in exchanges
>licenses.
>
>Any thoughts?
>Ben
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>On Monday 15 April 2002 12:32 pm, Brian Johnson wrote:
>> I have conduits for the memos, todo, datebook, and addressbook ready for
>> beta testing
>>
>> They are written in Perl and use Coldsync as the transfer program
>>
>> Are you interested in testing them?
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: address@hidden
>> [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Jean-Eric
>> Cuendet
> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 2:46 PM
>> To: address@hidden
>> Subject: [Phpgroupware-developers] Palm synchro
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> I'm developing a Palm synchro util that uses Coldsync, in Perl.
>> Is there a way to store the PalmID in phpGW for
>> Contacts/Calendar/Notes/TODO?
>> And is it possible to have the lastModification time?
>> Thanks.
>> -jec
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