Palm Handheld Users - Manual (Page 3)

Palm DualDate Getting Started Guide, Revision 1.1 1
What is Palm
™
DualDate
™
?
With Palm
™
DualDate
™
you and another Palm handheld user can share your calendars.
Currently the Palm Date Book contains a single calendar. Palm DualDate
enhances the Palm 
Date Book by allowing you and other Palm DualDate users to send, receive, and synchronize your
calendars. This enhancement also lets you view the two calendars side-by-side on your handheld.
Palm DualDate adds these features to your Date Book:
• Beam your calendar to another Palm DualDate user
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Option to share Private events (displayed as “**private** with no detail)
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Option to limit data beamed to only today’s and future events
• Receive another person’s calendar
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Receiver cannot modify events on shared calendar
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Replace the shared calendar with a different shared calendar
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Delete the shared calendar
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Alarms are not shared
• View two calendars together
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Your calendar and the shared calendar are displayed side-by-side in Day View and
merged in the Week, Month, and Agenda Views
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Switch between single calendar and dual calendar display by tapping the active calendar
view icon
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Events are easily distinguished on both color and grayscale devices in Day and Week
View
• Synchronize shared calendars with other Palm DualDate users
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After sharing your calendar with other DualDate users, you update their copy of your
calendar by beaming it to them again.