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

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

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 20:38 +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > 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.

As mentioned by Andrea, this issue is scheduled to be fixed with the
next Funambol release, but in the meantime I received answers to my mail
on the developers list and ...

>               * 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.

... there are no plans to support communication between client and
server using iCalendar 2.0. This means these two problems will continue
to exist.

>               * Alarms get lost, probably regardless in which direction
>                 the events are sent.

This problem also will persist.

>               * The information that an event is an all-day event gets
>                 lost.

Might be fixed as part of the time zone work.

-- 
Bye, Patrick Ohly
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