Get your notes calendar on the iPhone without DWA
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A new application has appeared on the iPhone App Store that claims to download your Lotus Notes calendar to your iPhone without having to use DWA UltraLight.
Written by Jimmy Mooney from Austin, Texas the application does have a few requirements for it to be able to run against your mailfile. The first is that your mailfile must be accessible via the web so the HTTP task must be running on your server and the server needs to be visible on the internet. The second requirement is that you need to add an agent into your mailfile so the application can extract the calendar data in what I suspect is probably an xml format that the application can read.
It is not clear from the applications description if the calendar entries are put into the iPhone's native calendar application or if they only display in the applications interface and I suspect that it is a read only application with no way to create calendar entries to sync back to your mailfile.
The application is called NotesCal and costs $2.99 to purchase.
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A new application has appeared on the iPhone App Store that claims to download your Lotus Notes calendar to your iPhone without having to use DWA UltraLight.
Written by Jimmy Mooney from Austin, Texas the application does have a few requirements for it to be able to run against your mailfile. The first is that your mailfile must be accessible via the web so the HTTP task must be running on your server and the server needs to be visible on the internet. The second requirement is that you need to add an agent into your mailfile so the application can extract the calendar data in what I suspect is probably an xml format that the application can read.
It is not clear from the applications description if the calendar entries are put into the iPhone's native calendar application or if they only display in the applications interface and I suspect that it is a read only application with no way to create calendar entries to sync back to your mailfile.
The application is called NotesCal and costs $2.99 to purchase.
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Nice to see a Notes app on the AppStore.
Posted by Rob McDonagh At 10:40:19 PM On 09/11/2008 | - Website - |
You are right, it is exporting to CSV. Additionally - it is a standalone app. The SDK will not currently allow you to access a user's calendar. You can be sure as soon as it does this will move from a standalone app to a conduit for syncing your Notes Calendar to your phone.
Lastly - unfortunately it is only one-way right now. I'm working on additional agent scripts that will allow for event creation and updating.
One of the big hurdles with notes is you can never directly access a server unless you hook into the DLL's installed when you install notes, or you have the users .id file available. Since neither of those is available the only other option is to piggyback on the HTTP daemon. That, of course, comes with its own challenges as a stateless connection protocol.
Feel free to e-mail me any questions you have on NotesCal and I'm glad to see you like it!
Posted by Jimmy M At 06:57:49 AM On 09/12/2008 | - Website - |
My topic in the ND8 forum
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Posted by Sander Zwart At 09:41:42 AM On 09/12/2008 | - Website - |
I have a laptop that I carry around - so if my laptop is in my bag with the solution you propose I'm not getting any new calendar entries. NotesCal connects to your server directly with no middleman required.
Posted by Jimmy M At 09:48:38 AM On 09/12/2008 | - Website - |
And I see it as a workaound....
Posted by Sander Zwart At 09:53:09 AM On 09/12/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Jimmy M At 11:11:53 AM On 09/12/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Mike Eovino At 12:40:40 AM On 09/28/2008 | - Website - |
I've also downloaded NotesCal, but I'm waiting for the 1.1 version to fix the problem I'm having. But I'm very excited about that.
Posted by Mike Eovino At 12:34:32 AM On 09/29/2008 | - Website - |