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Configuring OracleSync

• Setting Up Your Sign-in Information
• Specifying a Range of Dates to Synchronize
• Setting Up the Specifics for Synchronizing Events
• Setting the Task and To-do Items Parameters

Setting Up Your Sign-in Information

For Windows Users

Select the PDA Synchronization settings program from your computer by clicking Start, All Programs, Oracle Calendar Sync for Palm, then Settings.

• User: Your Oracle Calendar user name. (Note: This name must be your complete DND (BlitzMail) user name.)
• Password: Enter your Oracle Calendar password (this is your BlitzMail password; you will need to enter it twice).
• Server: Enter corptime.dartmouth.edu.
• Node: Enter 1.

Select OK when you are finished.

For Macintosh Users

1. Locate and click on the Oracle Setup application on your PDA handheld organizer:
2. Select Sign-In from the menu:
   
   
   
   
3. Enter your Oracle Calendar account information into the Sign-In screen (see illustration below):
    
   • User: Your Oracle Calendar user name. [Note: This name must be your complete DND (BlitzMail) user name.]
   • Password: Enter your Oracle Calendar password (this is your BlitzMail password; you will need to enter it twice).
   • Server: Enter corptime.dartmouth.edu.
   • Node: Enter 1.
     
     
     
     If you attempt to HotSync with Oracle Setup improperly configured, an error message will be reported in the HotSync log. If you have trouble or get an error when syncing, check the HotSync log on your computer. It may help you determine what is causing the problem.
     
     Please Note: If you change your DND password for any reason, you will need to also make this change under Sign-in from the Oracle Setup menu.

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Specifying a Range of Dates to Synchronize

For Windows Users

Select the PDA synchronization settings program from the Start menu by clicking Start, All Programs, Oracle Calendar Sync for Palm, then Settings.

Under Date Book, select Date Range. Enter the range of dates you wish to synchronize. The default is to synchronize information from one week prior to the current date through one month from the current date. The "current date" is the day on which you synchronize. There is no hard and fast rule on what is best; it depends on what you find convenient to have on your PDA organizer and the amount of memory (RAM) your PDA has available. The more data you sync, the longer it will take to sync your data, and the more memory it will use. Setting the date range on your PDA will not affect the information that is already in your Oracle Calendar program that is on your computer.

When you are finished, click OK.

For Macintosh Users

1. Locate and click on the Oracle Setup application on your PDA organizer.
2. Select Dates from the menu.
   
   
   
   
3. Enter the range of dates you wish to synchronize. The default is to synchronize information from one week prior to the current date through one month from the current date. The "current date" is the day on which you synchronize. There's no hard and fast rule on what is best; it depends on what you find convenient to have on your PDA organizer and the amount of memory (RAM) your PDA has available. The more data you sync, the longer it will take to sync your data, and the more memory it will use. Setting the date range on your PDA will not affect the information that is already in your Oracle Calendar program that is on your computer.
   
   

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Setting Up the Specifics for Synchronizing Events

For Windows Users

1. Click Start, All Programs, Oracle Calendar Sync for Palm, then Settings.
2. In the left-hand pane of the Synchronization Settings window, expand the Date Book list item.
3. Click Settings.
4. The Date Book Settings provide checkboxes for the following:
   1. Limit Details to control the amount of PDA memory used.
   2. Add Attendee names to Notes.
   3. Add Oracle Web Conferencing information to Notes.
   4. Synchronize Refused Events.
   5. Add Location to Title.
5. When you have finished defining your Date Book settings, click OK.

For Macintosh Users

1. Locate and tap on the Oracle Setup application on your PDA organizer:
2. Select Events from the Oracle Calendar menu:
   
   
   
   
3. This screen allows you to control the information synchronized between your Oracle Calendar events and the calendar on your PDA organizer. If you include attendee information, synchronization will occur at a slower rate. If you include extensive detail in this field in Oracle Calendar, more memory will be used on your PDA. If you select Limit Event Details, you can specify the maximum amount of detail information that will be transferred to your PDA. The default is 4 Kilobytes.
   
   

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Setting the Task and To-do Items Parameters

For Windows Users

From your computer, select the PDA synchronization settings program by clicking Start, All Programs, Oracle Calendar Sync for Palm, then Settings.

Under To Do List, you can adjust the parameters for your To Do items.

• Settings: This screen allows you to limit the size of each item, saving space on your PDA device. The size amount is variable.
• Date Range: You can limit the dates of items to a specified date range and automatically remove out-of-date items.
• Rules: This specifies whether the server overwrites the information on the PDA device or visa-versa.

When you are finished, select OK.

For Macintosh Users

1. Locate and click on the Oracle Setup application on your PDA handheld organizer:
2. Select Tasks from the menu:
   
   
   
   
3. This screen allows you to control how Oracle Calendar tasks are synchronized with the to-do list on your PDA organizer. The default will not synchronize tasks and to-do items flagged as completed, and will transfer all details associated with a task or to-do item. If you want to synchronize completed tasks, simply check that box. As with events, you can limit the amount of detail information that is transferred. Selecting Limit Task Details presents you with a field to specify the maximum amount of detail information that will be transferred; the default is 4 Kilobytes.
   
   

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