Re: Any way to memory in mobile devices?

HI,

On Feb 22, 2007, at 4:28 AM, Johan Bondeson wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've been working with funambol for a couple of weeks now and  
> integrated
> it with some systems that I and my company use. It is starting to look
> good and I like funambol, but we have one problem though.
>
> Most people have a lot of calendar items from years gone by and they
> want to save those items in their outlook (or other app's) calendar.
> They also want their cellphone's calendar to be in sync with their
> outlook. Problem is that when you sync somewhere around 2000 items to
> some phones, the memory kinda fills up. So my question is:
>
> Is there a way to only sync items newer than todays date to some
> clients?

Not with the default code base.

> Or is there some other rule that can be used?

You would need to implement within the syncsource a mechanism of
a sliding time window. Only those items in there need to be selected
for synchronization and one should take care of changes and deletes
that got moved out of the sliding windows that the appropriate
action is done. Outside the does not mean deleted automatically.


> If there is no existing function, can anyone point me some place in  
> the
> source where I can implement this? I have been looking around in the
> repos, but have not been able to locate any function like this. I  
> tried
> to hack the outlook plugin to only output new stuff, but I got server
> errors when I tried it and I cannot figure out how to fix that.


No, this is not implemented in the public sphere, but I have done
it in the past just to proof it was possible for a calendar
service.

:wq!

Harrie
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