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For example, if you set up your Google contacts account in Contacts
before you set up Gmail, when you first open Email, you find that your
Gmail messages are already downloaded. And when you first open
Calendar, you find that your Google calendar events are already in your
phone's Calendar app.
•
If you want to specify which apps get data from an online account: Set up
the account using the Accounts application (see
application to set up an online
NOTE
In the Launcher, tap
Accounts
you can set up on your phone and from which you can access Calendar events.
See
Online accounts available for Palm
online accounts synchronize data between the web-based account and your
phone.
Enter an event directly in Calendar:
You can assign the event to one of your online calendars—if you do, it
synchronizes with the online calendar. Or you can create the event in your
Palm profile account, which means it shows up on your phone only. Palm
profile events are included in the daily backup of your Palm profile
information, so you can restore them if they are accidentally erased.
Use a third-party sync solution:
your calendar events, you can use a third-party solution (sold separately) to
sync your calendar events directly with your computer (see
sync-solutions).
Export calendar events using the Data Transfer Assistant:
export calendar events from desktop software, you select which account to
assign those events to. Look for those events in the account you select (see
Export data from a desktop organizer on your
Layered calendars
Suppose you use the calendar in both Microsoft Exchange and in Google. If
you set up both of those accounts to sync with your phone, your phone's
Calendar app shows the events from both in a single view—a layered
calendar with events that are color-coded to identify which provider they
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Use the Accounts
account).
to see the current list of online accounts
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See
Create an event
for instructions.
If you want to use a desktop app to store
palm.com/
When you
computer).
come from. Individual events are stored separately with your different
providers; the events are just assembled in one view on your phone for your
convenience.
If you change an event, the change is made in the appropriate calendar.
You can also look at the events of just one calendar at a time.
Use Calendar for the first time
1
Open
Calendar
.
2
Do one of the following:
•
To set up an online account to sync: Tap
step 3.
•
To open Calendar without creating an online account: Tap Done.
This opens your Palm profile account, and you can start creating
events in this account.
3
To set up an account that is listed, tap the account type, enter the
account information, tap
Sign
Add An Account
and go to
in, and then tap Done.
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