MultiSync

Overview

Using the MultiSync feature you will need to select the calendar pairs to be synched and set their synchronization options just once because all of them can be saved in a MultiSync document, thus multiple calendar pairs can be synched at any time, with each pair having its sync options, by simply opening that document and clicking on its toolbar's MultiSync button. You can even schedule a synchronization by adding a saved MultiSync document to the iSynCal scheduler.

All MultiSync files related actions can be accomplished as usual, either by using the File menu located on the menu bar and its keyboard shortcuts, or by clicking on the appropriate Toolbar buttons (you may need to customize your iSynCal toolbar to see such buttons).

Please note that all MultiSync documents saved with iSynCal releases earlier than 3.0 are no longer compatible with any most recent iSynCal releases, therefore you must recreate your old MultiSync documents from scratch.

Unless the application is registered you will be warned that only the first MultiSync item in the list will be synched when clicking the MultiSync button, the remaining items will be skipped.

MultiSync documents

Once finished to add or edit all the calendars pairs to be synched and their relative sync options, you may want to specify in the AutoMount table which network volumes must be automatically mounted before starting the synchronization; however, adding a new row to the MultiSync table with a network disk's path selected on the right iSynCal will also try to fill in a new row in the AutoMount table, with the proper parameters to mount the needed network volume already set (except the password).

Now you can save all these selections and settings in a MultiSync document using the standard File menu. Any addition, deletion or modification you made to both the MultiSync and Automount tables is fully undoable from the Edit menu.

The rows in the MultiSync and AutoMount tables can even be reordered or copied to another MultiSync document by dragging the source row and dropping it respectively in the table itself or in the destination document's table.

At any moment you can then open your MultiSync document with iSynCal and all the calendars pairs listed in the MultiSync table will be ready to synchronize, with the network volumes specified in the AutoMount table automatically mounted: the only thing you need to do is to click on the document's MultiSync button.

Obviously, you can create as many MultiSync documents you need: for example, one of them could contain the selections and options to synchronize all your calendars between your PowerBook and a G4 at work while another document could be used to sync the same PowerBook and an iMac at home.

Adding new items [+]

All of the current selections and options that appear in the upper side of the iSynCal window and its Options drawer (home and remote/local selected path and calendars, sync method/direction, whether to backup or not the modified calendars and all the other sync options) can be brought to a single MultiSync item, which is visually represented by a row in the MultiSync table; just click on the Add Item button (the one with a cyan plus sign) when the calendars pair to be synchronized has been selected and all its sync options have been properly set.

To modify later any of the above settings simply select the appropriate MultiSync table's row and both the calendars selection and the options drawer's controls will be updated to conform to the selected item's values, allowing you to inspect and modify them. It is even possible to modify the synchronization options (except the calendars' selection) directly from the MultiSync table.

Please note that you will not be allowed to inspect the item's settings in case it contains a reference to a calendar file no longer available, for example it is located on a network disk not actually mounted, therefore it is necessary to previously mount the related network disk prior to inspect (and eventually modify) such item's settings.

Synchronize selected [S]

This button start a test synchronization for the item currently selected in the MultiSync table. Both pre-synchronization report and error notification are always enabled when running such synchronization.

Delete item [–]

The button with a trash icon can be used to delete the currently selected item from the MultiSync table.

Show pre-synchronization report

Activating this checkbox a report/confirmation panel will be opened while running the current document's MultiSync, just before saving the synchronized data: it contains a detailed report of the modifications that will be done to the involved calendars pair and allows you to accept or reject the changes which will be done by the current synchronization.

Please note that the report/confirmation panel will be showed for each MultiSync item in the table.

See Synchronization Reports and Logging for more detailed informations.

Notify errors

By activating this checkbox an alert box will be showed any time an error should occur during the MultiSync process, otherwise it will run quietly.