RE: Changing SyncCM date range

["Bharat Mediratta" <bmediratta@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, guys --

The date range logic for SyncCM is not readily apparent so let
me explain it partially here.  Please understand that I thought
this through fairly carefully and implemented it the way I did
for good reasons, mainly involving performance and the available
functionality with CDE.  I don't want to go into all the reasoning
but here's the behaviour (perhaps somebody would like to document
this somewhere useful).

In a nutshell, SyncCM assumes that your desktop machine is your
archive and your Pilot contains live data within a window of your
total calendar.  So if you have a calendar that starts in 1992
and you have events scheduled up to 1999, but you only want to
have a couple of years worth of appointments on your Pilot,
here's what it looks like

92                     95                          98        99
|------------------------DESKTOP-------------------------------|
                       |------------Pilot-----------|

Because of space limitations, you are specifying "I want to only
carry around 3 years worth of appointments".  So now there are
a few questions:

Q. What happens if I insert an appointment into my desktop in	'93? 
A. That appointment will not migrate to the Pilot

Q. What if I insert an appointment into my Pilot in '93
A. The appointment will get copied to the Desktop and then removed
   from the Pilot

Q. What happens to my '95 appointments if I move my sync date range
   to run from '96 to '98?
A. On the desktop, nothing.  On the Pilot, your '95-'96 appointments
   will be removed.

If you're not witnessing the above behaviour, then it might be a bug
in which case it should be fixed.

-Bharat

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kent Madsen
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 1998 2:00 PM
> To: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; vherur@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Changing SyncCM date range
> 
> 
> Vinod,
> 
> BE CAREFUL -- I just changed my date range (initially I mis-typed it
as 
> "01/01/1997" instead of "01/01/1998".
> 
> When I changed the date and re-ran sync, I received the same message 
> as you -- I 
> pressed the "what can I do" button out of curiosity.  I read the
message from 
> the dialog box, but when I pressed "ok" it cancelled the sync.  OK so
far.
> 
> However, the *next* sync I ran -- because I really did want to delete 
> the 1997 
> appointments -- forgot about the "shrunk significantly" condition and
the end 
> result was that it transferred an extra copy of my appointments to 
> the Pilot and 
> then *deleted* all the 1998 appointments on my CDE calendar!
> 
> I'm still trying to sort this out.
> 
> Kent
> 
> 
> >Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:00:52 -0800 (PST)
> >From: "Vinod HERUR [Telecom Sales/Bus Dev - Nihon Sun]" <vherur@Eng>
> >Subject: Changing SyncCM date range
> >To: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >MIME-Version: 1.0
> >Content-MD5: eBD07ySFIWECM9jZnroVHA==
> >
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I have been successfully using SyncCM for about 5 months with no
> >problems.  I have over 500 appts that are sync'ed between the Sun
> >and the Pilot.  I decided that I did not need to keep syncing
> >appts before 1/1/1998 so I changed the date range.  I got a
> >warning saying that "the number of appts have shrunk significantly
> >and it could delete a lot of appts if I continued, etc...", so I
> >cancelled the sync.
> >
> >What I would like to do is to keep the appts that are on the Pilot
> >(and in dtcm) prior to 1/1/1998 as is on both the platforms and not
> >have them change.  And I would like SyncCM to only sync from 1/1/1998
> >forward.
> >
> >Is this possible?
> >
> >Vinod.
> >
>
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