I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying with Datebk5 it did not give you the ability to link a calendar appointment with a contact listing already on your palm device?

On the other hand if you meant that that the BB software does not allow you to do this, I understand that, and am a little disappointed.

I have actually looked at your tips doc and the shortcuts for the calendar are useful but they do not make up for the lack of functionality within the BB calendar.

Any Idea from anybody ?

Leto,

I imagine you could enter your Agenda info in your Palm program, and then sync that with Outlook, and then resync the Outlook to your BB... if you like the Palm software better.

I switched over from Palm only a few weeks ago and am loving the BB, but their calendar/schedule program still leaves a bit to be desired and only has about 20% of the functionality that my Palm program does (Agendus). The rest of the features of my 8700 make it worth it though... I can deal with it.

This is exactly my problem: I use a Palm Tungsten T3 and have benn getting a BB 8700 v from my Company.

I still want to use Palm Desktop via Agendus which is far much better than Outlook + I continue to use programs on my palm that I will not be able to get with a BB as GPS/Video viewer/Books/Metro interactive maps/ Ailines and Train timetables/ games/ ....

I downloaded two days ago the latest version of BB desktop which includes an important function to importatn data from Palm OS

Unfortunately when I run it it starts the process of i,porting the calendar data but styas "frozen" for quite some time any solution you can help me with ?

Thanks in advance

I had the same problem when I first got my blackberry. Unfortunately I never got it to work and gave up on it.

I read this with interest, as linking the calendar with a contact has been around on the Palm for years. I still have an old Palm III, and with Datebook 3 I can link a contact to a calendar event. I have also been unable to do so with my new 8700c, which I still have 29 days to evaluate.

Is there any third party app that can accomplish this feat, or does the BB OS preclude it entirely?

Thanks much

AFAIK I don't think there is a solution.

Nobody else has any idea ???

If you type anything, even a single letter into a time slot, and then click the scroll wheel, you'll see an option to link. Select that, and it will take you to a blank "Link" page. You have the ability to enter a full address book type description there. What I'd like to do is, at the minimum, copy and paste my current address book to this link page. How I would them use it, I am not sure, but it would be a start.

Does anyone know how to copy the address book on to the link page?

I can't quite accept that there is no way to link a contact with an appointment

nobody has any idea ?

I have 2 different corporate Microsoft Exchange accounts (one for the company I work for and the other for the customer account I work at).

Since a "Feature" of outlook is that you can only have one exchange server defined, I have it setup to be connected to my company's exchange server.

I have a Palm T/X that syncs with this account.

I have a Blackberry 7520 that is using a BES server to sync with the exchange server at my customer account.

Is there a way to sync the calendar from my Palm (which is sync'ing from my company's calendar) with the Blackberry (which is sync'ing from my customer's calendar)?

I think I already know the answer to this, but thought I'd ask the experts. Thanks!

-Curt

Nevermind, found the answer in another thread. Gotta have BES to accept meeting invites.

New BB 8700c user looking for some help sync'ing outlook meeting/appt request on the BB. (By the way, the Cal tips are great tips, many of which I use now) In the user manual it "appears" that on the BB you can accept/decline meeting invites. I tried this and had a friend using outlook send me a meeting request. The BB shows the email, with some meeting details, but there does not appear to be a way to accept the meeting request. Do you have to run BES to get this to work?

In the alternative, can someone provide me with a link to learn more about this and how to resolve. Thanks in advance.

I have BES software and I'm not able to accept meetings or create new ones that have attendees.

I can only create appointments for myself.

I'm in the process of updating the firmware for my handheld. Is there anything else I should do?

Thanks
Jana

I have 4.1 on my 8707 but I don't see any categories. Is there a way to create these and colour code them? This is the one think I really miss from my Palm.

Paul

Welcome to the forums...

Categories are in the contact list. When you edit a contact you have the ability to add the contact to a category. You can even create your own categories. Then when you are looking through your contact list you can use the "filter" selection in the menu to filter the categories.

Thanks for the welcome and the quick response..

I should have been more specific, I was refering to the Calendar.

On my soon to be ex- Palm (and on iCal) I can set different colours for different calendars. As a freelance I colour different client calendars so it's easy to look at a week or month view and see what is going on and where I will be working.

How can I achieve this on my Blackberry?

Cheers

Paul

There are no categories in the BB calendar. This is a long requested feature, and I still can't figure out why they haven't incorporated it , but . . .

Are there any 3rd party fixes? I don't particularly need categories as such. Just a way of colouring events.

Paul

Mark, thanks for the tips.
Problem is, I can't remember all the tricks in my head and I'm certainly not going to carry a cheat sheet everywhere. But the idea that the BB calendar is actually more sophisticated-yet-efficient is a fun trivia to gloat about.

You must know a lot of people.... I think that is as many people as in Wyoming...

I recently switched from palm os to BB. I have used palms since they came out (1995?) and I felt I could never live without one. I am a physician and used the device for everything: scheduling, patient tracking, medial e-books, calculators, lit e-books, some games. When my carrier in Peru (Nextel) brought the 7100i Ibought it and I am very happy. I am starting to migrate from palm os to BB and I already have a buyer for my TX and I can't wait to sell it and stay with my bb. I am able to do almost everything on it and the calendar works just fine for me. Yes I would like to see a Today screen like with palm but I beleive I can live without it. I have tried pocketday for BB but didn't like it. Does anyone know of another 3rd party calendar software with more functionality for the bb?
Thanks.

No, there is no third party calendar app, unfortunately. You're pretty much stuck with what you have.

I, too, am looking for better calendar functionality. I have seen a few posts here about Datebk5, however, I was a big user of the same company's (Pimlico Softeare) WeekView feature . If you travel a lot and need to book out appointments, this allowed you to look at an entire week with actual words in the day fields to see if you are in a particular city, and to see the day before and after. Anything out there for BB like this?

This may be a stupid question - but is there software that comes with the 8700 series (or which can be found elsewhere) which you can use to enter data into on your desktop and then sync it to the blackberry?

Hi Matt - welcome to BB Forums.
There is no "Palm Desktop" like software. Many people use Outlook and then sync their BlackBerrys using the Intellisync software included in Desktop Manager. Intellisync also supports several other PIMs (Lotus Organizer and the like) but there is no desktop based program included with the BB software.

Good day,

A colleague has the following problem. When working in the calendar, it continuously keep on saying "Organizing calendar". It is getting annoying since it comes up every few seconds. So basicly, there is not much I can do.
This only happens in the agenda view, not in de day view or week view or month view.
He does have over 800 entries in the calendar. Is there a "limit" for entries in this view? What else could be the problem? And more important, how do I get rid of this message?
The Blackberry we use is a 7290.

Thanks in advance.

i converted from a palm, because my palm got stolen and a blackberry was a cheaper replacement. i like it so far, but i'm really disappointed in the calendar, and the relative lack of decent downloadable apps.

my biggest beef with the calendar is the lack of color. i have multiple things to do EVERY day and when i look at the week view or the month view all i see is a row or a grid of identical gray boxes. i need color. i need to be able to look at the week view and know what category the stuff is without having to scroll through and look at each appointment.

and as far as the apps... well there's nothing blackberry can do about that but i've found the quality of third party apps available for blackberry, specifically the awful personal finance apps, really pale in comparison to what's available for the palm. and with the palm... i can't ever remember having to wait for an app to load. you just click on the icon, and the app opens. not on a blackberry.

i really need a decent checkbook app, and they just don't exist. and please don't recomend ascendo money. it's awful. you want to see a good pda checkbook register check out splash money, which for some god awful reason they only make for the pallm. bah. at any rate its gotten so bad i've decided to go learn java just so i can design what i need.

I am a new user with a Blackberry 8820 from Orange. (ex palm treo) The question I have is following the successfull sync with Outlook for the Palm contacts and calender I am still having to use Outlook as the desktop software!!! I do not seem to be able to open/use the device software from the disk supplied by orange. It seems installed on my laptop but not working. Help
Early Doors

Is it just stupid me or is it not possible to open attachemnts on your calendar??!

Im really frightened that its not possible as it is a major to my company

Define opening an attachment on your calender, I am not familular with that

I couldn't find anywhere else, can you somehow search for an event on the calendar on the blackberry?

Just got a Blackberry 8310 - been a Palm user for a decade. The comment "it is no longer true that the BlackBerry PIM is inferior to the Palm..." is very misleading. Sure if you compare the native Palm PIM to the BlackBerry one then it is true - they are both rubbish. But nobody uses the native Palm PIM - there are dozens of much better alternatives. And that's the big issue - there are no good alternatives for the Blackberry. Thus, the truth is the Blackberry - as a PIM / PDA - is one notch above useless!

philmair, I agree. You might want to try pocketDay and WebIS is going to be releasing Pocket Informant for the BB. Not sure where they are right now with it.

Best that works for me is using a Today theme but I still can't copy a meeting from one day to another which is really amazing to me.

Regards-Michael G.

On my 8130, calendar attachments don't sync to the Pearl...there is a text
entry w/the name of the attachment, but the file is not there.

is there a way to change the default time block of one hour for appointments? i enter everything i need to do on my berry. i would like to just enter a quick appointment eg. start 1:00 and end 1:00

I also switched from Palm recently. What amazes me most, is that the BB is 'de facto' a tool for business people. How "they" get along with a rudimentary calendar as the BB has intrigues me.

Thank you! I too have always found the calendar on BBs to be utter crap! It lacks so many features, it poorly integrated into the device, and is barely visible anywhere other than in the actual calendar app itself.

You'd think with all these years behind them RIM would have woken up already. I guess they just sat around and spend their time focusing on perfecting the perfect mobile email device.

Good thing at least email is done right. You know, with HTML support and all....

So get a Treo?

i complained about the calendar. not the whole device. im not switching anytime soon.