Palm Handheld Users User Manual
Palm™ DualDate™ 1.1
Getting Started Guide
Palm™ DualDate™ is an enhanced version of the Palm™ Date Book that allows
you to:
● Share Your Calendar With Other Palm Powered
● Receive Another Person’s Calendar
● View Two Calendars Together
● Synchronize Your Shared Calendars
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Handheld Users
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Contents
1. What is Palm™ DualDate™? .......................................................................................... 1
2. System Requirements .................................................................................................. 2
3. Installation and Removal.............................................................................................. 2
4. Backup and Restore ..................................................................................................... 2
5. Sending, Receiving, and Deleting a Calendar............................................................ 3
6. Viewing Two Calendars Together................................................................................ 6
7. Synchronizing Shared Calendars................................................................................ 8
8. Notes on DualDate and Date Book Behavior.............................................................9
About This Guide
This Guide describes the enhancements that the Palm
existing Palm Date Book. It assumes that you are familiar with your handheld, the beaming
function, and the Palm Date Book application and also that you have access to the documentation
for your handheld.
Copyright and Trademark
DualDate
application adds to your
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for any damage or loss caused by deletion of data as a result of malfunction, dead battery, or
repairs. Be sure to make backup copies of all important data on other media to protect against data
loss.
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the accompanying software program(s). Using any part of the software indicates that you accept the
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What is Palm™ DualDate™?
With Palm
™
DualDate™ you and another Palm handheld user can share your calendars.
Currently the Palm Date Book contains a single calendar. Palm DualDate
enhances the Palm
Date Book by allowing you and other Palm DualDate users to send, receive, and synchronize your
calendars. This enhancement also lets you view the two calendars side-by-side on your handheld.
Palm DualDate adds these features to your Date Book:
• Beam your calendar to another Palm DualDate user
o Option to share Private events (displayed as “**private** with no detail)
o Option to limit data beamed to only today’s and future events
• Receive another person’s calendar
o Receiver cannot modify events on shared calendar
o Replace the shared calendar with a different shared calendar
o Delete the shared calendar
o Alarms are not shared
• View two calendars together
o Your calendar and the shared calendar are displayed side-by-side in Day View and
merged in the Week, Month, and Agenda Views
o Switch between single calendar and dual calendar display by tapping the active calendar
view icon
o Events are easily distinguished on both color and grayscale devices in Day and Week
View
• Synchronize shared calendars with other Palm DualDate users
o After sharing your calendar with other DualDate users, you update their copy of your
calendar by beaming it to them again.
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System Requirements
Palm DualDate requires the following:
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• A handheld running, or upgradeable to, Palm OS
3.5, 4.0, or 4.1
• At least 300KB free memory is recommended, which includes:
o Approximately 160 KB free memory for the DualDate application
o Enough free memory to accommodate a shared calendar in addition to your Palm
Date Book
Important
Installing DualDate onto an expanded memory card – such as SD/MMC, Memory Stick, or the
Handspring Springboard Memory Module – is not supported.
Installation and Removal
Installation
You can install the Palm DualDate application using the Palm Install Tool or by having someone
beam it to you.
Once installed on your handheld, you can launch DualDate either by tapping the DualDate icon
from the Applications Launcher or by pressing the Date Book button.
Notes:
• While most people will use DualDate exclusively, any changes you make to your personal
calendar in DualDate will appear in your Date Book application, and vice versa.
• DualDate adds “Share Calendar” and “Delete Calendar” entries to the standard Date Book Record
menu list. A “Select Color” entry is added to the Options menu and “Share Private Events” is
added to the Options > Preferences dialog box.
• When installed, DualDate inherits your existing Date Book Preferences and Display settings.
• Installing DualDate does not change the Date Book HotSync
conduits or affect your Palm
Desktop Date Book display. The shared calendar is visible only in the Palm DualDate
application on your handheld.
Removal
Removing Palm DualDate from your handheld will not affect the Palm Date Book application. All
your personal calendar information will be retained, including changes made while DualDate was in
use.
Backup and Restore
All Palm DualDate information is backed up to your desktop when you perform a HotSync operation,
including the DualDate application and the database it uses to store the shared calendar.
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