Calendar

How do I get events into Calendar?

You have a few options for getting events to show up in Calendar:

Connect to an online calendar: If you have a calendar in an online account that works with the HP Synergy feature (see Your HP Veer 4G), for example, Google or Microsoft Exchange, you can set up Calendar on your smartphone to synchronize and display events in the online calendar. After you set up the connection to the online calendar, events you enter online show up automatically in Calendar, and events you enter on your smartphone sync to the online account, provided the account allows writing from the smartphone to the online account.

You can set up your calendar accounts in either of these locations.

•The Accounts app (see Use the Accounts application to set up an online account)

•The Calendar app (see Use Calendar for the first time and Customize Calendar)

DID YOU KNOW? If you synchronize with your Google calendar, you can add Google Weather to the calendar on your desktop and have it appear in Calendar on your smartphone. On your desktop, log in to your Google Calendar account and open Calendar Settings. Click the General tab, enter your location, and click the temperature unit you want in Show weather based on my location. The next time your smartphone synchronizes with your Google account, Google Weather appears in Calendar on your smartphone.

The Synergy feature provides another advantage: During the same process you go through to set up a calendar account, you also set up the same account for all other applications that can display data from that account. For details on how Synergy works for the current list of online accounts, see Online accounts available for HP webOS smartphones.

For example, suppose you want to set up your Google calendar account on your smartphone. The last step in setup is to select all the other apps that

you want to receive data from your Google account (besides Calendar, you can include Contacts, Messaging, and Email). After setup is complete, your smartphone begins to download your calendar events and all data for all other apps you selected for synchronization.

NOTE In the Launcher, tap Accounts and then tap Add Account to see the current list of online accounts you can set up on your smartphone and from which you can access Calendar events. See Online accounts available for HP webOS smartphones to see how major online accounts synchronize data between the web-based account and your smartphone.

Enter an event directly in Calendar: See Create an event for instructions. You can assign the event to one of your online calendars—if you do, it synchronizes with the online calendar. Or you can create the event in your Palm profile account, which means it shows up on your smartphone only. Palm profile events are included in the daily backup of your Palm profile information, so you can restore them if they are accidentally erased.

Use a third-party sync solution: If you want to use a desktop app to store your calendar events, you can use a third-party solution (sold separately) to sync your calendar events directly with your computer (see palm.com/ sync-solutions).

Export calendar events from desktop software: When you export calendar events from desktop software, you select which account to assign those events to. Look for those events in the account you select (see Export data from a desktop organizer on your computer).

Layered calendars

Suppose you use the calendar in both Microsoft Exchange and in Google. If you set up both of those accounts to sync with your smartphone, your smartphone’s Calendar app shows the events from both in a single view—a layered calendar with events that are color-coded to identify which provider they come from. Individual events are stored separately with your different providers; the events are just assembled in one view on your smartphone for your convenience.

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