[kronolith] Synchronization Preferences -> Shared Calendars

[gimili]

On 4/11/12 10:17 AM, Michael J Rubinsky wrote:
>
> Quoting gimili <gimili17 at gmail.com>:
>
>> On 4/11/12 7:07 AM, Samuel Wolf wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> is it possible to use shared calendars as well for synchronization?
>>> I can only select my local calendars at the moment.
>> Same here.  Perhaps it would cause a problem and is disabled by 
>> design or perhaps a glitch?
>
> By design.
>
>  I am not sure.  I know in Turba I can
>> sync with a shared address book which is very useful.
>
> In turba, there is a 1:1 relationship between a contact and the unique 
> identifier (the UID value). Since all addressbooks/calendars are 
> merged into a single address book/calendar when sent to the device, we 
> must rely on the entry's UID when making changes on the device.  For 
> Turba, this is fine since there will only ever be a single entry for 
> each UID. For kronolith, once you start looking at calendars that are 
> not owned by you, it's possible that a single UID has multiple entries 
> on the server. It would then be impossible to determine which copy of 
> the event you want. Combine that with the fact that it's impossible to 
> mark an entry as "read only" on the device, this can cause all kinds 
> of data integrety issues.
>
> FWIW, ActiveSync, on Exchange, does not support this either, and in 
> fact, does not even support syncronization of more than the user's 
> *single* calendar or address book.
>
>
>

Thank you for the explanation.  Good reason to use Turba instead of 
Exchange :-)

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gimili