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gautxori
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Hi,
does MPE store appointment description text in html? Everytime I sync Outlook appointments in html format MPE forces the description text to be in plain ascii, not allowing rtf or html format. Is there any solution to this? |
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icke1954
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This wish is not new, but it would be very complex in terms of programming.
That means it will unfortunately not be possible to realize it |
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gautxori
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Not long ago I was able to keep formatted text in Outlook and to get it synced with my mobile's calendar. Most of the "calendar desktop apps", such as Outlook, are compatible with HTML in their description. And google calendar appointment descriptions are compatible with HTML.
So, why aren't descriptions kept as HTML nowadays?
Setting an option to sync appointments either as HTML or as plain text, would be a very easy fix, and could help satisfy both users willing to have ASCII and HTML appointments... |
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icke1954
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gautxori hat Folgendes geschrieben: | Not long ago I was able to keep formatted text in Outlook and to get it synced with my mobile's calendar | This should still be the case with Sync Outlook > Handy / MPE.
However, the formatting is lost when syncing Handy / MPE > Outlook. |
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gautxori
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Mi Feb 08, 2023 22:07 |
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icke1954 hat Folgendes geschrieben: | This should still be the case with Sync Outlook > Handy / MPE.
However, the formatting is lost when syncing Handy / MPE > Outlook. |
I know it, and I guess it happens because Android does not allow to read from Java (=MPE client) the HTML description body.
See the following images, I can:
1. create an HTML description with Business Calendar,
2. this HTML text is displayed as plain ASCII in Google Calendar,
3. and MPE transfers the text as plain ASCII.
4. In Outlook, displayed as ASCII:
I think it would not be difficult to enable an option so that when "HTML on" was selected, these HTML tags would be parsed into Outlook by using this method (I use it, and MPE has a plugin for Outlook that could do this easily).
In short, It would not be that difficult. |
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FJ
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You are right, in this special case i just have to enable the html parsing in Outlook. I made this small change - when MyPhoneExplorer writes a Appontment and the body is like "*<*>*</*>*" then MyPhoneExplorer sets the BodyFormat to HTML now.
This is the link to the current beta: https://www.fjsoft.at/files/MyPhoneExplorer_DebugUpdate.exe
But icke is right, full HTML support is too complex |
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gautxori
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FJ hat Folgendes geschrieben: | But icke is right, full HTML support is too complex |
Of course FJ, in fact not even Android calendar supports full HTML standard.
Things are working as expected:
- if I create a new appointment in Business Calendar (for it allows html tags), all the tags are properly parsed and I can see HTML in Outlook.
So things are working from mobile to Outlook, which is the feature I was asking for.
But...
- If I modify anything in the appointment in Outlook, HTML tags are lost. So no bold text, no undderline or italics. Enumerations lose their html tag, but the ordinals (1., 2., 3., ...) are kept.
-if I create an appointment in Outlook with HTML markup in description, all HTML is lost when syncing.
So things are not working from Outlook to Mobile. And I suppose this is the complexity both you and icke meant.
I think all the HTML tags are lost before the mobile apps (Business Calendar, or Android calendar) receive the description text. Once again a comment from stack buggers comes in handy: things are not easy, but posssible. HTML should be parsed in the MPE client in mobile device. And perhaps it could even be displayed as such in the Desktop MPE app... so that you do not need to mess with so much parsing and conversions. |
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