File Formats for various sync devices

Various SyncML capable devices exchange data (adress, calendar, todo, notes) in various data formats. This page is designed to collect as many examples from as many devices as possible to allow for an implementation that can deal with any of these.

Synthesis SyncML client

The Synthesis (www.synthesis.ch) client can be used to sync Palm and various Windows Mobile PDAs.

Synthesis Tasks Example

BEGIN:VCALENDAR

VERSION:1.0

BEGIN:VTODO

SUMMARY:Synthesis todo entry on pal,

CATEGORIES:Tests

CLASS:PUBLIC

DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Note line1=0D=0A=

line2=0D=0A=

DUE:20050929T000000

PRIORITY:1

STATUS:NEEDS ACTION

END:VTODO

END:VCALENDAR

Notes:

• Priority can be 1-5.
  • If a todo entry is marked as completed, its status becomes COMPLETED.
  • The client is quite picky about the version number: ensure it's VERSION:1.0.

Synthesis Events Example

BEGIN:VCALENDAR

VERSION:1.0

BEGIN:VEVENT

SUMMARY:test

CLASS:PUBLIC

DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:line1 aumlaut: ae=0D=0A=

line2=0D=0A=

DTSTART:20050923T130000

DTEND:20050923T140000

AALARM:20050923T080000;;;

DALARM:20050923T080000;;;

END:VEVENT

END:VCALENDAR

Synthesis Address Book Example

BEGIN:VCARD

VERSION:2.1

N;CHARSET=UTF-8:Last Name;First Name aumlaut: ä    ;;;

FN;CHARSET=UTF-8:Last Name, First Name aumlaut: ä    

TITLE:title

ORG:company;

CLASS:PUBLIC

TEL;WORK:+4989111

TEL;HOME:+4989222

TEL;FAX:+4989333

EMAIL:

ADR:;;Marienplatz 1;Munich;By;D-81777;Germany

NOTE;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:line1=0D=0A=

line2=0D=0A=

END:VCARD

Nokia 6230

Nokia 6230 Notes example

BEGIN:VNOTE

VERSION:1.1

BODY:Nokia3nndies ist zusätzlicher Text!

DCREATED:20051030T111735Z

LAST-MODIFIED:20051030T112041Z

END:VNOTE

Nokia 6230 Calendar example

BEGIN:VCALENDAR

VERSION:1.0

BEGIN:VEVENT

DTSTART:20051030T170000

DTEND:20051030T180000

CATEGORIES:MEETING

SUMMARY:calendar entry

DESCRIPTION;CHARSET=ISO-8859-1;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:description=0Aline=

 2=0Aumlaut: =E4=0Alast line

LOCATION:B

END:VEVENT

END:VCALENDAR

Nokia 6230 Task Example

(events and tasks are in the same database)

BEGIN:VCALENDAR

VERSION:1.0

BEGIN:VTODO

DUE:20051113T090000

DTEND:20051113T090000

PRIORITY:2

STATUS:NEEDS ACTION

SUMMARY:Task1

END:VTODO

END:VCALENDAR