[horde] ActiveSync not syncing all calendar entries on Android 4.0

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Please don't top post.

Quoting Andreas Harrer <alwaysthreegreens at gmail.com>:

> Thank you for your Help and Information.
> I thought that minimum the events should be synced, which are in the  
> future (from now), but created before the sync partnership was  
> startet (event creation before initial sync). The settings not to  
> sync past events are familiar for me from the Windows Mobile 5,6,6.5  
> times and make sense, of course.
> The difference is just that these were past (creation and Event itself).
>
> If an event is older than this date, it is not included in the  
> initial sync.  (Good to know, was not obvious for me, I think I  
> missed something here; completely ok)
> If an event is created before the initial sync, but its date is in  
> the future, I would expect it to be included in the initial sync.  
> (Is that right?)

Yes. The only thing that matters (as far as the initial sync is  
concerned) is the event date. NOT the date the event was entered. So,  
ALL events that occur in the future, as well as some predetermined  
slice of past events, should be synced on the initial sync.


> So I'm going to test around with this informations.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Andreas
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael J Rubinsky [mailto:mrubinsk at horde.org]
> Sent: Montag, 04. März 2013 17:11
> To: Andreas Harrer
> Cc: horde at lists.horde.org
> Subject: Re: [horde] ActiveSync not syncing all calendar entries on  
> Android 4.0
>
>
> Quoting Andreas Harrer <alwaysthreegreens at gmail.com>:
>
>> On 3/4/2013 3:36 PM, Michael J Rubinsky wrote:
>>>
>>> Quoting Andreas H <alwaysthreegreens at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Similar Issue for me.
>>>> Android 4.X (Nexus 4) Does not sync all Calendar events. If i open
>>>> one of them
>>>> in Kronolith and save it, it get synced. Items, i do not open in
>>>> Kronolith and
>>>> resave do not get synced. Sync from new events created on android
>>>> work and get
>>>> synced to Kronolith.
>>>
>>> The log shows nothing but successful PINGs that find no changes
>>> when polling the History backend. This means that for whatever
>>> reason, your events are not being entered into the History backend
>>> when they are created. How are you creating the events?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> The events I create completely new at the Kronolith dynamic view get
>> synced well (That's what I do). The events which had been there
>> before I got my new Android device does not sync (They were also
>> created in the Kronolith dynamic view manually by clicking "New
>> Event", as all others). I can somehow make them sync (the ones being
>> there before I got the Android device) by opening them in Kronolith
>> and resaving them. I used a N900 device with Syncevolution before.
>>
>> Do I have the wrong expectation that the old events should also be
>> synced? I would like them to be of course!
>
> This is client controlled. Some offer the ability to set how far back
> to look for events to include when synching. Others seem to use a hard
> limit. You should check your client's synchronization settings. If an
> event is older than this date, it is not included in the initial sync.
> Due to the way we detect changes currently, updating an older event
> will currently cause it to be seen as more recent by the diff engine.
> This will eventually be addressed, probably in Horde 5.2 (or 6.0) when
> the SOFTDELETE command is finally implemented.
>
> --
> mike
>
> The Horde Project (www.horde.org)
> mrubinsk at horde.org


-- 
mike

The Horde Project (www.horde.org)
mrubinsk at horde.org
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