Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Palm synchro

[Buchan Milne]

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Ben Cottrill 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?)

It should be relatively easy to get coldsync running on windows, by
compiling with cygwin. All that would be necessary is a cygwin.dll to be
distributed with coldsync.

| 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.

TNEF (aka winmail.dat) should not be used by anyone for anything. A
proper MIME attachment in VCARD would work better.

| 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.
|

Now this is where things would get interesting. The Mozilla people are
looking at trying to get the Mozilla calendar speaking to phpgw. Having
outlook support it would be great. I have sample code for Mozilla what
will log into phpgw via xmlrpc, I just need to start playing with it
more ...

| 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.

And calendars and tasks are the only things that can't currently be
provided by an open-source solution.

Buchan

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