Migrating palm birthdays to windows

[adam onus]

I have some birthday information stored on a Palm version of agendus. it has the format
BDAY:3/20/1990
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I believe this was an old palm workaround.

I now have a pocket pc (dell axim X51V), i am using a trial of your product, and i see the data in the "contacts" program this information but it does not show in Agendus on my diary views. How do I recover this information?

adam,

I liked agendus on the palm but to cut to the chase: recovery of this data is the key motivation in me migrating to the windows version.

[hezahonker]

Hi adam,

Just to make sure I understand correctly. You are now syncing your contacts to your new 51v (congratulations on the new device:) ) and you see the contact birthday in the contact information but you are not seeing the birthday on the calendar agenda, day week views?

Let me know if this is correct. :D

[adam onus]

That sums it up. But to elaborate:
I see the note in the (appaling) windows application,
in Agendus:
I expected to see the birthady in the "Dates" tab of the contact but don't
nor do I see the note in th "Note" tab.
And I do not see the birthday in any of the date views.

I presume from what i have read in other threads that the windows version and newer palm devices are using a standardised version and my old palm was using a workaround that stored the data encoded in the contacts note.

[hezahonker]

That sums it up. But to elaborate:
I see the note in the (appaling) windows application,
in Agendus:
I expected to see the birthady in the "Dates" tab of the contact but don't
nor do I see the note in th "Note" tab.
And I do not see the birthday in any of the date views.

I presume from what i have read in other threads that the windows version and newer palm devices are using a standardised version and my old palm was using a workaround that stored the data encoded in the contacts note.

OK, thanks for the information. I understand what is happening now.

Can you tell me if the birthday for your contacts show correctly in the native calendar on your device? (I am referring to pocket outlook on the device, not agendus) Also, can you tell me if the same problem is showing in Outlook on your desktop as well?

[adam onus]

I cannot see the dates in the pocket PC "Calendar" app.

I do not think i can see them in the Outlook application on the desktop but i am not at that computer right now.

[hezahonker]

I cannot see the dates in the pocket PC "Calendar" app.

I do not think i can see them in the Outlook application on the desktop but i am not at that computer right now.

OK, thanks for that confirmation. It was as I suspected. I was hoping that was not the case.

Well, unfortunately the problem is now that you need those contacts entered in outlook correctly because outlook has a completely different way of using that date as you already understand. That means a couple of things:

One, you can, depending on the size of your contacts list, enter them into outlook and erase the existing data for those contacts.

Or, if you still have them loaded on the old palm, programs like Chapura's pocket mirror can synchronize that information with outlook for you. However, if you don't own Pocket Mirror, it probably wouldn't be worth buying it just for one time use since you are not using your palm any longer.

Let me bounce this issue off of the other team members to see if anyone has any other solutions. I would like to find the best solution for you on this before you do anything.

[adam onus]

Thanks for looking into it.

[hezahonker]

Thanks for looking into it.

adam,

In the meantime, check out this post http://support.iambic.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27006&highlight=export

[michael]

adam onus,
Are the following true?:

-you created birthdays on the Palm OS device
-you previously synced with Palm Desktop and not Outlook
-you DO NOT use Agendus for Windows Outlook Edition