Team Members Assigned: Chris Murphy & Wesley Esser

Nexthaus SyncJe for BlackBerry Documentation: HERE

SyncJe Client Setup via Matt Sullivan

Ideally we will have this packaged up by Nexthuas and will include Techtime URL and event directories, therefor reducing this how-to.

Within the BlackBerry browser, press MENU, and GO TO... Enter in the following URL:

http://www.nexthaus.com/bb/syncjebb.jad


Press the either the Return button, or the TrackBall.

The Nexthaus site should prompt you to download the SyncJe Client, highlight and click Download.

The download should start, if the download does not start check to make sure you are in good cellular coverage area. Then try the download again.

After the download has completed, a window will pop up stating "The application was successfully installed." Click RUN.

When the application has open, click MENU button. Then scroll to Settings, and click.

License Name and Key, this information and how it will be included is TBA ** Skipping this part*

Roll the trackball down to Server URL:, and enter the following URL:

http://calendar.mit.edu/ocas-bin/sync/bin/ocas.fcgi

Now roll the trackball down to Username, and enter in your kerberos username. (Your MIT email prefix)
Now roll the trackball down to password, and enter in your kerberos password. (Your MIT email password)

Now roll the trackball down to the blue box to the left of Calendar, click the box, placing a check mark within.
Then roll the trackball to Foldername: (under Calendar). Enter in the following directory:

./calendar/events

Now roll the trackball down to the blue box, left of Sync events between: Click and place a check mark in the box.

Roll the trackball cursor to "days before sync date:" and enter 60.

Now roll the trackball cursor to "days after sync date:" and enter 90.

IS&T at this point, recommends syncing 60 days before and 90 days after. This range of dates tested to produced the least amount of errors during sync. The more information you have within the detail portion of a calendar event, will directly effect the amount of days you can sync. Trying to sync more then a years worth of calendar events is not recommended as the technology and capacity of the devices are still limited at this point. **

Press Menu, and Save.

Press Back.

Now verify that you are in a good data coverage area (verify this before all calendar synchronizations). This can be check by hitting the Home button, and looking for a 1XEV connection in the top left or right of your home screen. If you only have 1X, do not attempt to sync calendar as connection error is likely to happen. **

Open SyncJe, and click Menu.

Now click Start Sync, (this can also be down by click the Trackball button)

SyncJe is now connecting the MIT Techtime server and is synchronizing your calendar entries. (The numbers that are appearing are NOT accurate, verification of this is pending per discussion with Nexthaus)

When the sync has completed, you will receive a Session Complete messages. Press Menu, Press Ok, to return to the SyncJe window. To verify how many events were synced.

Click Menu, and scroll to View Log.

SyncJe Testing Results via Wesley

Blackberry Testing w SyncJE

Syncing with 365 days in the past (950+ entries) took forever, and failed several times.
Even when I restarted I didn't get duplicates.
I also lost connection during the sync, and still did not get duplicates
I wasn't ever sure if it did a SlowSync

Testing sync issues:

Mark Private from device
Does not sync
Mark private from TechTime
Does not sync

Add meeting from device
No problems
Add meeting from TechTime
No problems

Add recurring from device
No problem, TechTime sees as recurring
Add recurring from TechTime
Synced as single entries, not a recurring meeting. All entries came over

Update TechTime recurring from device
No problem, Can only update individual entry
Update TechTime recurring from TechTime
No problem

Update device recurring from device
Breaks recurrence on device for all recurring entries, updates specific entry only
When recurrence re-enabled, adds new recurring entry (can lead to duplicates)
Update device recurring from TechTime
Synced as single entries, not a recurring meeting. All entries came over

Add invitee from device
Sends email to invitee directly, can be imported into outlook
Does not carry into TechTime
Add invitee from TechTime
Does not carry forward

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4 Comments

  1. Lee S Ridgway

    When doing the settings for SyncJe, you need to click on the little checkbox to the left of a setting (such as Contacts, Calendar, etc.) for it to sync.
    Matt pointed this out after I did all the settings according to the instructions in the wiki, then did 'Start Sync', but nothing was transferred to the blackberry.
    We will need to note this in the documentation.

    Lee

  2. Chris Murphy

    Just did the installation and a couple of syncs, with no problems. I created a meeting on the BB and did a sync, worked fine.

    -Chris

  3. Wesley J Esser

    Here's the results of some (slightly) thorough testing that I've been doing.

    Blackberry Testing w SyncJE 
    Syncing with 365 days in the past (950+ entries) took forever, and failed several times.

    Even when I restarted I didn't get duplicates.

    I also lost connection during the sync, and still did not get duplicates

    I wasn't ever sure if it did a SlowSync  
    Testing sync issues: 
    Mark Private from device

                    Does not sync

    Mark private from TechTime

                    Does not sync 
    Add meeting from device

                    No problems

    Add meeting from TechTime

                    No problems 
    Add recurring from device

                    No problem, TechTime sees as recurring

    Add recurring from TechTime

                    Synced as single entries, not a recurring meeting.  All entries came over 
    Update TechTime recurring from device

                    No problem, Can only update individual entry

    Update TechTime recurring from TechTime

                    No problem

                   

    Update device recurring from device                Breaks recurrence on device for all recurring entries, updates specific entry only
                    When recurrence re-enabled, adds new recurring entry (can lead to duplicates)

    Update device recurring from TechTime

                    Synced as single entries, not a recurring meeting.  All entries came over 
    Add invitee from device                Sends email to invitee directly, can be imported into outlook
                    Does not carry into TechTime

    Add invitee from TechTime

                    Does not carry forward

  4. Mark Van Dyke

    When I set up SyncJE to sync 365 days back, 90 forward it would fail after the time out. This continued even when I extended the time out period to 20 minutes and longer. I reduced the sync window to 10 days back 90 forward and it would still time out. The only way I found to fix this was to do a Slow sync.