Re: [funambol-users] Problem with Funambol and Syncevolution

[Patrick O. <Pat...@gm...>]

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 18:45 -0430, ivan wrote:
> Good day, i'm trying to synchronize a server funambol with “evolution”
> across of Syncevolution, everything works fine, but when I verify
> synchronization of calendar, can be seen from the server a difference 4
> hours regarding the originally introduced in the evolution.
> 
> 
> By what i have be seen syncevolution worked with iCalendar and
> funambol
> with Vcalendar, so i think it is a problem of interpretation.

This is one of the known problems in that combination:
http://www.estamos.de/projects/SyncML/Compatibility.html#Compatible+SyncML+Servers

        SyncEvolution and Evolution itself use the iCalendar 2.0 format
        for events and todos. myFUNAMBOL uses vCalendar 1.0. Both have
        some support for parsing incoming items in the other format, so
        exchanging data is possible in principle, but be prepared to run
        into problems:
        
              * Time zone information is sent by SyncEvolution, but not
                used by myFUNAMBOL and not preserved. Make sure that
                client and server are set to the same time zone to
                mitigate the problem. This is not going to help with
                events which were scheduled in different time zones. 
              * Importing items with special characters into Evolution
                scrambles these characters because Evolution does not
                handle the vCalendar 1.0 encoding of these characters.
              * Sending such items with a broken encoding back to the
                server can cause a parser exception on the server.
              * Alarms get lost, probably regardless in which direction
                the events are sent.
              * The information that an event is an all-day event gets
                lost.
        
        Warning
        Because of these problems it is not recommended to synchronize
        events and tasks with myFUNAMBOL. Users of a local Funambol
        installation might be able to avoid the encoding problems by
        configuring their server as described by Mauro, but this has not
        been tested; the problem with ignored time zones and lost alarms
        will persist.

Hopefully the situation will improve with the next Funambol server
releases, which will have better iCalendar 2.0 support. Whether
myFUNAMBOL will offer that remains to be seen: I asked the developers,
but didn't get a reply.

-- 
Bye, Patrick Ohly
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