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Intellisync 4.0 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION TO INTELLISYNC .................... 7 What is Intellisync? ........................................................................7 Additional documentation .............................................................7 THE INTELLISYNC ICONS .................................. 9 GETTING STARTED WITH INTELLISYNC........ 11 Entering configuration settings ...................................................11 Performing the first synchronization.................
Intellisync 4.0 Introduction to Intellisync Welcome to the Intellisync Quick Start Guide. This guide is designed to help you install Intellisync, as well as complete your first synchronization. It also includes information on accessing online Help and user guides. What is Intellisync? Intellisync enables you to synchronize your Palm OS® handheld with a variety of popular Windows applications.
Quick Start Guide CD. To install it, insert the Intellisync CD into your CD-ROM drive and click Get Acrobat Reader on the opening screen. • Online Help. Intellisync includes complete online Help that is accessible through the Help icon in the Intellisync program group or by clicking Help in the program interface dialog boxes. • Readme. The Readme file contains important information that arrived too late to be put into the Help system or the user guide.
Installing Intellisync The Intellisync icons The Intellisync Program Group displays the following icons: The Intellisync Favorites Folder icon contains Web page links to enable easy and timely access to information on Intellisync products, technical issues, and other important topics. The Intellisync Configure icon accesses the Intellisync Configuration dialog box—the main dialog box used to configure Intellisync operations. The Intellisync Help icon accesses the Intellisync online Help system.
Getting Started with Intellisync Getting Started with Intellisync This section gets you started with your first synchronization by providing configuration information and a synchronization procedure. Entering configuration settings How does Intellisync know what to synchronize? You tell Intellisync what to synchronize through the information you enter in a set of configuration dialog boxes. These dialog boxes specify the data you want to synchronize and contain special settings affecting synchronization.
Quick Start Guide Performing the first synchronization Follow these steps to configure and perform your first synchronization: 1. Click the Intellisync Configure shortcut or the Intellisync Configure icon in the Intellisync program group. This displays the Intellisync Configuration dialog box: Figure 1.
Getting Started with Intellisync 2. In the Configuration dialog box, select the handheld application you want to synchronize. Then click Choose to open the Choose Translator dialog box: Figure 2. Intellisync Choose Translator dialog box 3. In the Choose Translator dialog box, specify the PC application you want to synchronize. If a File Name or Folder text box is present, use the Browse capability to select the file or folder you want to synchronize.
Quick Start Guide 4. If the Options button is enabled, click it and make sure the system options are set appropriately for the application you have selected. Then click OK to return to the Choose Translator dialog box. 5. Click OK to return to the Configuration dialog box: Figure 3. Intellisync Configuration dialog box - selected applications Now, the PC application you selected appears next to the handheld application name, and a two-sided arrow appears between the handheld and PC application names.
Getting Started with Intellisync 6. To review or alter settings affecting synchronization, click Advanced. This displays the Advanced Settings dialog box. (Intellisync fills in default values for all settings.) Figure 4. Intellisync Advanced Settings dialog box 7. When settings are configured as you want them, click OK to return to the Configuration dialog box. 8. To change any of the fields that will be synchronized, click Field Mapping and then OK. The Field Mapping dialog box appears.
Quick Start Guide 10. With your handheld in the cradle and the cradle connected to the appropriate COM port on your PC, press the sync button on the cradle. The synchronization process begins, and the Progress dialog box appears. Figure 5. HotSync Progress dialog box Note: If you click Cancel on the Progress dialog box, synchronization will stop when Intellisync finishes synchronizing the current handheld application. 11. If a Conflict Resolution dialog box appears, resolve any “data conflicts.
