Using the latest Evolution with Fedora Core 6. (2.8.3) I've gotten the PDA/pilot synchronization working individually. I've managed to setup publishing of my calendar and my wife's calendar, who is also using Evolution (2.8.3) about 8 feet away at her desk.
But my goal was to have a calendar on my PDA that I could actually use, one on which people can send meeting invites to me, and one that reflects family commitments as well. What we were doing previously was a completely shared calendar on Above&Beyond, which was hot-sync'd to each PDA. We could both add calendar entries at our desk, although we couldn't add anything from the PDA. The presumption of Evolution seems to be that you can publish your calendar, others can view your published calendar, but others cannot change your calendar. Also, you can only hot-sync a single calendar to your PDA. And if you hot-sync'd your Personal calendar to the PDA, then manually also pushed your Wife's calendar out to the PDA, the next time you hot-sync your PDA all the stuff on your Wife's calendar is going to come back and get stuffed on your Personal Calendar. (Or does it? Does the calendar data on the PC have information in it to tie it back to which Evolution calendar it came from?) So there you are, in the orthodontist's office, trying to make a followup appointment for your son and you don't have all the calendar stuff you need. I'll admit - corporate users might not have this need. Unless they have children. and a life. I was wondering if it would be possible to dink around with hard links under ~/.evolution/calendar and actually force both our userids on the same computer to use the same calendar. Would this be safe? Or would that have two copies of the Evolution Data Server both thinking they were the only one updating the calendar file and we'd end up hammering the calendar and the last update would win and wipe out an earlier update. Obviously, we only would want to do that on calendar data, not email. I guess one halfway solution is to never add appointments on the PDA, and manually push both of the calendars to it. I was hoping we could get to something more functional. I think there's a need for something similar regarding Contacts. Our handling of names and phone numbers is a shambles, because we both can't add contacts on a PDA or desktop and have it sync to both of us. In theory one can just fire up an LDAP server and do that. Turns out that's a bit daunting for the average user who has no other need to configure LDAP.
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