Installing Oracle Calendar on your Palm Pilot
If you have a Palm PDA that you would like to synchronise with Oracle Calendar at the University, these instructions will explain how to achieve this. In order to complete the set up process you need to have the Palm Desktop software installed.
- The CD for this is bundled with your Palm when you buy it. You will need your Palm next to you as you install the software because it may ask for your serial number
- If you are installing this software onto your own PC that you have admin rights on, skip to the next section. If you are on an Active Directory PC, you must install this software as follows:
- Add the user account of the user who is using the Palm to the Administrators group on the local PC
- Log in as that user and install the software as that USER (installing from another account does not allow the software to work)
- Once installed, take the user out of the Administrators group and log off
Install and configure the Oracle Calendar Sync for Palm
- To download 'calandar Sync for Palm' choose your operating system from the below options and copy and paste the appropriate path into your web browser:
- Windows: G:\calendar\SyncClients\Windows\Palm\cal_syncpalm_win_1012.exe
- Mac OSX: G:\calendar\SyncClients\Macintosh\cal_syncpalm_macOSX_904210.hqx
- and double-click the icon
- Click Next to start, and Next again to install in the default folder
- Choose the Complete option and click Next and Install
- The Settings page should appear, enter the following information:
- User: Your BUCS username (eg. ccsano or abc20 etc.)
- Password: The usual BUCS password
- Server: calendar.bath.ac.uk
- Node: Leave this blank
- Click on the Date Book entry on the left and then on the Date Range section.
- Select suitable date ranges to sync, if you are unsure what would be suitable choose 1 week in the past and 3 months in the future. You can change these settings later
Customise Palm Desktop to synchronise with the appropriate parts of Oracle Calendar
- Ensure Palm Desktop is running (you should get this running on startup)
- Go to the icon in the System Tray (red and blue), right-click and choose Customise
- Set the Date Book (Oracle Calendar) to 'Do Nothing' then click Default to ensure the setting persists for more then one HotSync
- Set the Address (Oracle Calendar) to 'Do Nothing' then click Default to ensure the setting persists for more then one HotSync
- Set the To Do List (Oracle Calendar) to 'Do Nothing' then click Default to ensure the setting persists for more then one HotSync
- Set the Calendar (Oracle Calendar) to 'Full Synchronisation'. You only need to do this the first time, it should default to 'Quick Synchronisation' after that
Synchronise Calendars
- Run the HotSync program on the Palm to complete synchronisation with Oracle Calendar