Sybase Desktop manual Using Calendar on Palm OS, Lotus Notes

Chapter 6

Note

Table 6-3

Calendar events in Lotus Notes and on Palm OS device

Using Calendar on Palm OS

Note that application names differ slightly on different devices. On older Palm devices, the Calendar application is called Date Book. See Table 4-1, “Application names on different device platforms,” on page 63.

Working with Calendar events on your desktop and on your device

Because of inherent differences in the way Calendar events are handled in Lotus Notes vs. your Palm Calendar application, the Calendar information may be represented differently on the two platforms. For example, the distinction between the different types of events in Lotus Notes — Meetings, Appointments, Anniversaries, Reminders, and All Day Events — is hard to see in your Palm Calendar. You should be aware of these differences as you work with Calendar events on your device.

The differences beteween the way that Lotus Notes and the Palm Calendar application handle information are most apparent when the sync Action for Calendar is set to Synchronize the files. If your Calendar sync Action is set to Desktop Overwrites Handheld, you may never notice these differences.

Lotus Notes	Calendar item	Different representation on Palm OS device
Item
Subject	(event	(Other than not displaying a label like
	description	“Subject” on device, there is no difference
	in Calendar)	from Lotus Notes.)
Starts time	Start Time	(No difference from Lotus Notes)
Ends time	End Time	(No difference from Lotus Notes)
Starts date	Date	The date is displayed separately from the
		time and an event cannot span midnite.
Invitees	Note	From Lotus Notes to device, values for
		Required, Optional, and FYI Invitees are
		concatenated to the device Note field.
		From device to Lotus Notes, the device
		Notes field syncs back to the Lotus Notes
		Description field — if you enter invitees in
		the device Notes field, they will not auto-
		matically notified of the event via email.
Required	Note	Stored in on-device Note field.* Required
(to)		vs. Optional vs. FYI Invitees are not distin-
		guished on device.
Optional (cc)	Note	Stored in on-device Note field.* Required
		vs. Optional vs. FYI Invitees are not distin-
		guished on device.

114 / iAnywhere Solutions, Inc.