Shared Calendar/Datebook in Palm Desktop

[hunterdw]

Hello--

I have recently started helping a Financial Planner's office with their IT issues. I'm completely Palm-stupid, so forgive me if the answer is so obvious that it would bite me.

Total of 4 Employees. Currently, when a meeting is scheduled, each of them takes their little stylus and enters the meeting in their palm. This is stupid. They want a cental calendar they all can sync to.

I chose one machine (receptionist) and setup each palm (1 palm 3c, 1 palm 7x, 2 Palm m505) to sync to that machine instead of local hotsyncing. All they use the palm for is meetings. I can get each palm to connect just fine through the network, but they all setup a separate "profile" in Palm Desktop on the central machine. I want them all to use the same profile.

That is, when Kristin (one user) schedules a meeting and syncs, it is put on Kristins Calendar. When I sync through the network, I do not get that meeting because it syncs with Daryl's (me) calendar.

Help? If this has been answered in the past, please point me to that posting. I've searched back through the last 6-8 months but didn't see anything.

More info... 4 users, 2 on Win2000, 2 on XP Pro. 2 Use Outlook Express 6 (and will NOT change), 2 use Outlook XP.

Thanks in advance,

--DW

 

[Najemikon]

As far as I understand, the Palm desktop simply can't share between multiple users & PCs. The best software for that is Outlook, running on an Exchange server. Then you could have shared contacts, tasks & appointments.

If your network could run that, you could install Beyond Contacts on the Palms (fantastic app!) which is designed to ape Outlook.

Should work a treat, but I'd guess there would be a big culture change involved, which is bound to be a problem.