Two or more people can share calendars if they both use Datebk. Search through the manual for "sharing" to find tips about this (there will be three or four sections of interest).
Here are some other ideas:
- Create a category dedicated to new appointments. Each day, put all new appointments in that category only. At the end of the day, each person beams his new appointments to the other person. They both then move all appointments out of the "new" category and into their own personal categories as they see fit.
- If your and the person you want to share calendars with sync to different computers that are network-connected, then you can use GroupSync to share categories between Palms. The shared categories can be read-only or full access, so you might for example created a "Shared" category that you both put common appointments into and which you could both update, and each create another category that you want the other to be able to view but not change. It's very flexible.
- Try Time & Chaos.
- Use Outlook 2000. One or more people (e.g., assistants or secretaries) can enter anything they are allowed to access such as appointments, contacts, notes, etc. You can give permission in Outlook for anyone to edit whatever you choose. The Palm will sync directly with the information.
Using PocketMirror to view multiple calendars
PocketMirror Professional allows you to view multiple calendars (your own calendar and another person's calendar) on your handheld.
Martin Posch writes in 2000:
There are two ways to use PocketMirror Professional:
- You just synch the categories like you did it with the older versions or with the standard version.
- Each Category on your handheld is mapped to a dedicated folder in Outlook. It is not possible to have to ore more categories in one folder, if you use this setup. But with this way you can have one Outlook folder with your wife's calendar and one with yours, you can synch it with different categories on your handheld and set up Datebk to display it as if they were different calendars. Works fine for me also with cOnnection to my company's network. I just had to get used to that now, for example, my category with all the birthdays is now a folder in Outlook. So if you use this set up and still want to split your entries in several categories on your handheld, you lose desktop functionality because you can't view different categories on the desktop at the same time because they are in different folders.
In general I am very satisfied with PocketMirror. There is one issue with PocketMirror and Datebk regarding conflict resolution with public folders. I had a long conversation with the creators of PocketMirror and they will fix it in the next version. If you synch a public folder with Datebk, in most cases (in a company) you want that the public folder (only that category) to overwrite the handheld. But when you start Datebk, it scans all the items on your handheld and changes them, because it writes certain information to the notes field. So with the next synchronisation, PocketMirror senses that these items have changed, overwrites them with the contents of your public folder and copies the items from the Palm to a certain conflicts folder. So with every synch your conflicts folder is filled with all the items of the public folder, because they have changed on the Palm every time. With the next version of PocketMirror (maybe) there will be a switch to turn off conflict-resolution in general for certain folders. Can anyone say if this has been fixed yet?
Can anyone who is familiar with PocketMirror add anything to this section or adjust anything that is no longer true?