7:19 a.m.
I changed the description field on an event on my Nokia E63 by deleting the
latter half of the description.
After syncing, I noticed that the change hadn't propagated to the server. I'm
running Darwin Calender Server under Ubuntu 10.04 and Evolution has this as its
main calendar. I don't know if this is relevant, but thought I'd mention it.
Looking at the logfile, it seems that the changed entry was detected, but
nothing was done about it.
I think that this has happened before, though previously I would have put it
down to intending to change something and then forgetting to do it
(happens at my age :) ).
This doesn't seem to be consistent. I deleted some words from the middle of a
description (on the phone) and it propagated successfully.
Changes done on the server seem to propagate successfully.
6:28 p.m.
On So, 2011-02-13 at 20:19 +0000, Irihapeti wrote:
I changed the description field on an event on my Nokia E63 by
deleting the
latter half of the description.
This is treated as a special case by the Synthesis engine's merge rules:
because many phones truncate such fields and thus unintentionally remove
data on the server when merging back changes from them, the engine
checks whether the beginning of the description is the same on client
and server and if so, keeps the longer version of the description.
If you don't want this behavior, then you can remove merge="lines" from
the DESCRIPTION entry in 10calendar-fieldlist.xml. If you put that
modified file into ~/.config/syncevolution-xml/datatypes, it'll survive
updates of the system's config files.
I'd rather not change the config that comes with SyncEvolution because I
expect that the current behavior is useful for more users - how often is
a description really shortened?
--
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although
I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way
represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
on behalf of Intel on this matter.
6:43 p.m.
On 14/02/11 20:28, Patrick Ohly wrote:
On So, 2011-02-13 at 20:19 +0000, Irihapeti wrote:
> I changed the description field on an event on my Nokia E63 by deleting the
> latter half of the description.
This is treated as a special case by the Synthesis engine's merge rules:...
If you don't want this behavior, then you can remove merge="lines" from
the DESCRIPTION entry in 10calendar-fieldlist.xml. If you put that
modified file into ~/.config/syncevolution-xml/datatypes, it'll survive
updates of the system's config files.
I'd rather not change the config that comes with SyncEvolution because I
expect that the current behavior is useful for more users - how often is
a description really shortened?
That's fine. I didn't realise it was a special case, and it will explain
why it's only happened occasionally. I'm happy to do a work-around and
leave the default behaviour as it is.
Thanks
Irihapeti
4234
days inactive
4235
days old
syncevolution@synevolution.org
3 comments
2 participants
participants (2)
-
Irihapeti -
Patrick Ohly