>>Anyways, I'd like to know the status of pda synchronisation with phpgw. >>I searched the archives and most discussions seems to date back to 2003 >>so I'm curious as to where this technology is at. For now, they're using >>Palms but, being an office supply company, they could easily switch to >>Blackberry etc. > Well, Blackberry is a nasty topic if you've to sync them with OS software. RIM, the company behind Blackberry, only offers one official way to sync Blackberry [BB] with a groupware - buy an Blackberry Enterprise Server [BES], connect the BES to your groupware [Exchange, Lotus Notes, Groupwise] and you're done.
By choosing this way, you can sync your BB by GPRS from all over the world through the BES directly to the groupware, but not with PHPgw. There's no connector between the BES and PHPgw and because the BES is closed source, I'm quite sure there never will be one. The only way to sync BB with PHPgw so far, needs the help of Outlook, the Sync4J-Server and a connector between the Sync4J-Server and PHPgw. The latter is currently under developement but we don't know when it will be finished. To make it short, the Sync4J-Server speaks native SyncML to sync calendar and contacts with any pda/ cellphone that speaks SyncML. If your device can't speak SyncML, like Pocket PC or Blackberry don't worry, because the Sync4J guys can help you further. They've coded SyncML clients for e.g Outlook or Pocket PC 2003 that do the syncing. Back to your BB case. Each BB is shipped with a sync-software called Intellisync. With this software you can sync your BB with a locally installed application only - e.g. Outlook, Lotus Organizer, ... but there's the Sync4J-Client for Outlook. The only thing you've todo is to sync Outlook with PHPgw through the Sync4J-Server and afterwards sync BB with Outlook. Because the current Sync4J-Client includes a scheduler, you can automatically sync Outlook at a minimum rate of 15 minutes. I don't know much about the palm support, because we tested it only with Outlook. IMHO it's the only way to sync BB and other non SyncML devices with PHPgw. Christian -- =========================================================== Christian Rost roCon - Informationstechnologie Herner Strasse 299 B-29 44809 Bochum fon: +49 (0) 234 33 80 820 - 0 fax: +49 (0) 234 33 80 820 - 9 url: http://www.rocon-it.de _______________________________________________ Phpgroupware-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/phpgroupware-users
