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Palm™ DualDate™ 1.1
Getting Started Guide
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Palm DualDate is an enhanced version of the Palm Date Book that allows
you to:
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● Share Your Calendar With Other Palm Powered Handheld Users
● Receive Another Person’s Calendar
● View Two Calendars Together
● Synchronize Your Shared Calendars
Palm DualDate Getting Started Guide, Revision 1.1
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Contents ™ ™ 1. What is Palm DualDate ? .......................................................................................... 1 2. System Requirements..................................................................................................2 3. Installation and Removal..............................................................................................2 4. Backup and Restore ............................................................................................
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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 Dua
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System Requirements Palm DualDate requires the following: ® • 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 n
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If you experience an unexpected loss of the DualDate application or the calendar shared to you when you last performed a HotSync operation, the DualDate application and this shared calendar will be restored to your handheld the next time you HotSync. If you intentionally delete the DualDate application or the second calendar, they will not be automatically restored during the next HotSync. Sending, Receiving, and Deleting a Calendar With Palm DualDate, you can share your entire calendar
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Sharing Private Events If you choose to share your Private events, Palm DualDate will display them on the recipient’s handheld as **private**, with only the event date and time visible. Private event is masked in shared calendar Alarms Alarms you have set will not be beamed along with the events. Receiving A Calendar You can receive a calendar beamed to you by another Palm DualDate user at any time – you do not have to be in DualDate in order to receive it. 1. After
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Notes: • The name assigned to the shared calendar is the same as the owner’s handheld User name and cannot be changed by the recipient. • Recipients of shared calendars cannot beam them to anyone else. • Individual events on shared calendars can be beamed to other Palm Powered handheld users, even if they do not have DualDate installed. • Users of some wireless enabled Palm Powered handhelds running Palm OS 4.0 or higher can use the Date Book Beam Event feature to email individual even
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3. Tap OK to delete the calendar and all its data. Viewing Two Calendars Together Palm DualDate allows you to easily switch between single calendar and dual calendar display modes by tapping the currently active Day, Week, Month or Agenda View icon (located at the lower- left of the display). You can also change display modes by pressing the Date Book button. In Day View, the two calendars appear side-by-side. Your calendar is always on the left and the shared calendar is on t
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Single Calendar View Dual Calendar View Week Views Cascading Week View Icon Single Calendar View Dual Calendar View Note: If both your calendar and the DualDate shared calendar have events scheduled for the same time, tapping either event in Dual Calendar Week View mode will display one of the two Event Descriptions. Which Description is selected is arbitrary. To see both Descriptions, switch to Dual Calendar Day View. Color and Grayscale Coding of Events
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Single Calendar View Dual Calendar View Changing Calendar Colors You can change the colors of your calendar and the shared calendar in DualDate using Select Color under the Options menu in Day View or Week View. You can also access the Select Color dialog box by tapping the “color picker” icon at the bottom of the screen in Week View. Note: Shared calendars will always default to red and do not display in the color assigned by the owner. Tap the color picker box Tap the d
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Notes on DualDate and Date Book Behavior DualDate has all of the features and functions as Date Book. DualDate is designed to integrate with Date Book and any changes you make in either application are immediately updated in both. Since DualDate and Date Book are separate applications, following are some behaviors you may experience. Responding to Alarms in DualDate If you tap the GoTo Event option when responding to an Alarm in DualDate, Date Book launches and displays the event.
