iCal/Entourage/iPhone categories

[maestrohughes]

Version: 2008
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Based on the information I read here synching the iCal app with Sync Services so that I could get my iPhone and Entourage to talk to each other, I spent a good three hours last night converting my multitudes of events and calendar items in iCal into the Entourage calendar I had to create in that application. Then, after they appeared in the Entourage application calendar, I assigned categories to all these events. Success? I thought so until I synched the iPhone and every category I had was lost! This part of the application is meaningless unless I can see the categorization of my daily events. Is there a solution around this? The frustration AND tragedy is that now I have two calendar applications that have lists and lists of events that are not categorized: iCal (all events listed as an "Entourage" calendar item) and "Entourage" (all events unclassified). Please HELP!

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

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Success? I thought so until I synched the iPhone and every category I
had was lost!

Entourage categories (and contact pictures, some IM fields for
contacts...) don't sync through SyncServices.
It's not a bug, it's a limitation,

This part of the application is meaningless unless I can
see the categorization of my daily events. Is there a solution around
this? The frustration AND tragedy is that now I have two calendar
applications that have lists and lists of events that are not
categorized: iCal (all events listed as an "Entourage" calendar item)
and "Entourage" (all events unclassified). Please HELP!

What I red is that iCal supports multiple calendars, but no categories
whereas Entourage supports both multiple calendar (one local, plus
exchange calendars) *and* multiple categories.
Right now, you can sync the main calendar only through sync services,
but catagories won;t sync. I really realy really wish they ahd allowed
us to select a preference allowing us to synca categories in Entourage
to calendars in iCal (and categories for contacts in Entourage to groups
in the system address book)


Corentin

 

[maestrohughes]

Just to be clear, my issue is not that I need these categories in my iPhone (although that would be cool). It is that I need them in Entourage. I had them all, but they all went away after I synced.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Just to be clear, my issue is not that I need these categories in my
iPhone (although that would be cool). It is that I need them in
Entourage. I had them all, but they all went away after I synced.

That's unusual....
For the future, you can use a script to back them up to the Notes field
and another one to restore them all in case you lose them again:
http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/?p=113


Corentin