Kde-pim/pi 2.1.0 Available!

[ev1l]

Not trying to knock any of these apps because they are great. But from a useability perspective, being able to look at my Z without turning it on, and tell if I've got an appt either coming due or is already overdue by seeing the LED blinking is something that some other PIMs have been providing for a long time.  That being said, my statements should only be seen as questions and/or suggestions and not critiques because not only are these apps great, they're also free to those of us who either don't know how to program in this language (like me), or choose not to donate time and effort for the good of the larger community . But it would be very helpful if that functionality was there.

Don't waste your breath (skin?), neither of us gets upset easily  
Z's already confirmed the platform won't allow it, so your best bet is to not auto-suspend it. Don't let your Z alone for a couple of weeks though ;-)

[gdog]

Don't waste your breath (skin?), neither of us gets upset easily   
Z's already confirmed the platform won't allow it, so your best bet is to not auto-suspend it. Don't let your Z alone for a couple of weeks though ;-)
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I generally try to avoid being offensive, as some folks just seem to live to argue.  But my appreciation is no less sincere. Can't tell you how much I admire those who write such great apps for the fun of doing it apparently, and then give them to the public domain. You guys are great.

I'll just accept the fact that my Z is not going to wink at me about an appt. when it's turned off. Better that than letting the battery drain down. Luckily I'm pretty in tune with what I've got coming up, and my laptop is my primary tool for scheduling. And since it's on the whole time I'm in front of it, I don't have to worry about missing something important.

Thank you both. These two apps are still the best I've used on a handheld.

Regards,

gdog

[amdonati]

I have tried to import my Ka/Pi on a Z6000L contacts back to Outlook 2003, but for some reasons All of them failed.
I tried the Ka/Pi-DTM-OL approach, but while I could sync correctly between Ka/(Py and the Sharp contacts, when I tried to sync with OL, this always failed in the middle of the process, saying something about a wrong or missinig API, and I tried on different PCs and fresh intsalls of OL.

So I tried with the CSV export, but for some reasons neither Outlook nor OL express accept the CSV file created by KaPi.
While I do not know if there is a solution to the DTM sync issue, though I start to think tha there must be something wron in my vcard file, is there maybe the hope that the CSV export filter issue could be solved?

Thank you very much,
regards,
Adalberto

PS: Any news on the KDE/Pim to OL sync? I see that there is a not active voice ion the Windows version, but no other news on it.

[danr]

Hi Zautrix,

I'd like to import Outlook appointments to use them in KOPI on pdaXrom.  I've imported the appointments into KOPI on a Windows machine, which is fine, but if I restart KOPI and repeat the import, it creates double entries (even though if I don't close KOPI and do it, it doesn't import any appointments).  Is this a bug with KOPI, or is this functionality intentional?

I doubt I'll be able to perform the DTM sync option because I'm running pdaXrom, not a Sharp-based ROM.

Keep up the good work - a great bunch of apps!

Cheers,

Dan

[ev1l]

I have tried to import my Ka/Pi on a Z6000L contacts back to Outlook 2003, but for some reasons All of them failed.
I tried the Ka/Pi-DTM-OL approach, but while I could sync correctly between Ka/(Py and the Sharp contacts, when I tried to sync with OL, this always failed in the middle of the process, saying something about a wrong or missinig API, and I tried on different PCs and fresh intsalls of OL.

That's a Sharp sync problem. I generally find the sync setup to be very, very unreliable (it flat out refused to work for me).

So I tried with the CSV export, but for some reasons neither Outlook nor OL express accept the CSV file created by KaPi.
While I do not know if there is a solution to the DTM sync issue, though I start to think tha there must be something wron in my vcard file, is there maybe the hope that the CSV export filter issue could be solved?

Have you tried a vCard export instead?

PS: Any news on the KDE/Pim to OL sync? I see that there is a not active voice ion the Windows version, but no other news on it.

You'll have to get in touch with the KDEPim crew for that. I doubt it's a high priority item for them (can't say I agree, but again, I'm not contributing to KDEPim).
In KDEPim/Pi, I honestly don't know. I do think it's an important issue, both for people with PocketPC's who use OL as a conduit for Activesync, and the other way around for people who want to sync a Linux machine (desktop or PDA) to their Outlook info because OL gets info KDEPim/Pi  doesn't (groupware server, whatever).

[ev1l]

I'd like to import Outlook appointments to use them in KOPI on pdaXrom.  I've imported the appointments into KOPI on a Windows machine, which is fine, but if I restart KOPI and repeat the import, it creates double entries (even though if I don't close KOPI and do it, it doesn't import any appointments).  Is this a bug with KOPI, or is this functionality intentional?
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That's intentional. Import is a one-way process, and it doesn't check for identical event already in your dataset. Can Outlook export to vCalendar? Then you could do a filesystem sync (dump the calendar on the PDA, sync to that, copy the updated calendar to your desktop, nuke (after BACKING UP) your outlook data, and import the sync'ed calendar)into OL. I don't know OL too well, but this could probably be scriptable.

[ev1l]

I generally try to avoid being offensive, as some folks just seem to live to argue.  But my appreciation is no less sincere. Can't tell you how much I admire those who write such great apps for the fun of doing it apparently, and then give them to the public domain. You guys are great.

We might start collecting money to get a Fogbugz license, which is so much better than Bugzilla it's kind a sad for the lizard in question.
We'll see whether Lutz likes it, and whether we want to take our user's money for it, but you might get to make a financial contribution yet (whether you want to is another issue entirely   )
Also, GPL'ed software is not exactly public domain. BSD-licensed software would be more akin to it, althought there are still differences.

[amdonati]

Have you tried a vCard export instead?

From what I understand, the vcard export would create 1 vcf file with all my contacts.
And Outlook cannot read it unless I buy an external addon, which I would avoid if possible, given that it is a One time process.

Otherwise I have to manually create more than 200 single Vcards.
Maybe it is the only solution, but is not very "confortable"

Adalberto

[zautrix]

I have tried to import my Ka/Pi on a Z6000L contacts back to Outlook 2003, but for some reasons All of them failed.
I tried the Ka/Pi-DTM-OL approach, but while I could sync correctly between Ka/(Py and the Sharp contacts, when I tried to sync with OL, this always failed in the middle of the process, saying something about a wrong or missinig API, and I tried on different PCs and fresh intsalls of OL.

So I tried with the CSV export, but for some reasons neither Outlook nor OL express accept the CSV file created by KaPi.
While I do not know if there is a solution to the DTM sync issue, though I start to think tha there must be something wron in my vcard file, is there maybe the hope that the CSV export filter issue could be solved?

Thank you very much,
regards,
Adalberto

PS: Any news on the KDE/Pim to OL sync? I see that there is a not active voice ion the Windows version, but no other news on it.
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Can you try to find out what in the csv card file is wrong such that outlook does not import it?

The Outlook sync will take some time because I have to do some preparations in KO/Pi ad KA/Pi before I can implement this.

One of them is the multi calendar feature in KO/Pi.
That is almost working - now I have to add the multi calendar feature to the sync settings and the sync program code.
After that I have to change the telephone number editing in KA/Pi.
That implies some smart code for changing telephone number types and will take some time.

And then I will think about the best solution how to sync with Outlook.

As you can see, there are a lot of problems to be solved...
I guess it may be working end of September.

z.

[zautrix]

Hi Zautrix,

I'd like to import Outlook appointments to use them in KOPI on pdaXrom.  I've imported the appointments into KOPI on a Windows machine, which is fine, but if I restart KOPI and repeat the import, it creates double entries (even though if I don't close KOPI and do it, it doesn't import any appointments).  Is this a bug with KOPI, or is this functionality intentional?

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I have to admit that I do not understand you.
You wrote
"it creates double entries"
and
"it doesn't import any appointments".

What are you doing in what way?

z.

[danr]

I have to admit that I do not understand you.
You wrote
"it creates double entries"
and
"it doesn't import any appointments".

What are you doing in what way?

z.
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Sorry for the misunderstanding.  What I am trying to do is to create a one-way sync (i.e. import), from Outlook into KOPI.

If I use KOPI on Windows I can import calendar appointments from Outlook, no problem.  If I repeat the import then no more appointments are imported (which is ideal).  However, if I close KOPI and restart it and try to import the appointments, they are all imported again, so I get two copies of each appointment.  If I close and reopen KOPI again and repeat this, I get three copies of each appointment, etc.

I wondered whether this is expected behaviour, i.e. it should only be done once ever, or if it should be intelligent enough to stop creating duplicate entries.

The method of exporting the Outlook calendar to vcard files is complicated because you have to select each appointment and save them individually to vcard files.

Dan

[gdog]

Will there ever be a search function for KA? It would be most useful. Please forgive if there is and I just haven't found it.

Regards,

Tref

[zautrix]

Will there ever be a search function for KA? It would be most useful. Please forgive if there is and I just haven't found it.

Regards,

Tref
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Ok, I forgive you!

z.

[amdonati]

Can you try to find out what in the csv card file is wrong such that outlook does not import it?

Yes i could check, but I do not have much experience in the Vcard parsing, any suggestion on what could I be looking for?

And thanks for the work on the OL sync!

Adalberto

[Glenbo]

Great software.  I'm trying it out for the first time and wonder if there is a filter or something else that will let me display a list of todos that are of a single priority.  That is, can I somehow have it ONLY show me tasks with a priority of '1'?  I can't seem to do it with a filter.

Also, the recurring todos are nice, but it seems that when you complete a task all it does it change the due date on it.  I then need uncheck the complete box.  I would think that completing a recurring task would generate a NEW copy of the task with the new date.

Thanks again for all the good work!