Bizarre Calendar Sync problem

toranut97 · 02-12-04, 11:24 AM

Help!

My x3i was syncing just fine -- now it won't display my appointments in the calendar view. The calenar appears empty. The bizarre part is that on the Today screen it shows my appointments for today! All of the appointments appear on the PC calendar...

I have Outlook 2002 and Mobile PC 2003. I have tried searching the Microsoft Knowledge base and did a system restore to earlier in teh week -- I may just need to go back further... but I have a BAD feeling that this is a problem with my pcoket pc.... Any suggestions, anyone?

TIA!

Donna

toranut97 · 02-13-04, 11:17 AM

Since someone else may just run into the same problem, I will note the solution here. It was not a sync problem after all: it was that some appointments (most) in my calendar had no categories -- so I needed to create a (no category) category. (Kind of Zen, don't you think?) The problem drove me nuts all day yesterday, and now I feel a bit dumb. Hope this helps someone else!

Overzeetop · 02-20-04, 08:04 AM

Thank you for posting your solution...but how did you do it? I added "no category" but that is, obviously, a category and doesn't match "" for those items which were unassigned in Outlook 2002. I even tried "<no category>". I added a test meeting to see if it worked. There was still no mention of it on my Axim after synchronization.

Anyway, I just went back in and manually edited EVERY SINGLE calendar event to have a category. (There doesn't appear to be a way to multiple edit on categories). The flaw in the system appears to be that categories are not synchronized arcross the interface. I have categories in outlook which don't show up at all on my PDA calenday (only the "today" page, which isn't very helpful for planning)

I'll add a question to this topic, since there seems to be no documentation on this:

I like to have all of my categories turned on when I view my calendar. However, when I go to create an appointment, it gets tagged with any/all categories which are flagged as being viewed. How can set the default appointment category to be different from the calendar view.

As a second question, is there another professionally written (I.e.: not MS or free/shareware) calendar and contacts program which is a bit more intuitive/user-friendly out there? I don't use Outlook for email, so I don't need that function integrated.

TIA!