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Configuring ActiveGcSync

The first time ActiveGcSync is run it will automatically show the Settings screen. When running ActiveGcSync subsequent times, you can use the Settings menu button. The following tabs are available:

General

Username – Your Google account’s username. This may need to be username or username@gmail.com

Password – Your Google account’s password

Hide on Startup – ActiveGcSync will bring the Today screen to the foreground when it loads

Check for new versions on startup – ActiveGcSync will check for a new version whenever it is started and pop up a system message if it finds one

Disable Error Popups – Disables system popups when an error occurs

Sync

Automatically Update – ActiveGcSync will periodically auto-update your calendars

Interval (in minutes) – Number of minutes to wait between updates

Error Interval (in minutes) – Number of minutes to wait until retrying the synchronization after an error occurs

Only sync when connected to network – ActiveGcSync will wait for a network connection to start a synchronization

Calendars

Calendars to Sync – Click the Refresh button to get a list of all Calendars on your account. Check off the ones you want to synchronize. The Events tab allows you to customize settings for each Calendar

Default Calendar – This option allows you to define to what Google Calendar to synchronize PocketOutlook events without a Category. If this is blank then you will need to assign each event a Category that correlates to a Google Calendar name in order to have them synchronized. (Important Note: If this option is left blank, any events synchronized by previous single-calendar versions of ActiveGcSync will not synchronize!)

Categories button – Click to select which non-calendar categories to sync to your default calendar

Events

Calendar dropdown – Select a calendar to customize

Event Label – What to label this event. The label will appear on your device in brackets, for example: [label]. Leave blank for no label

BusyStatus of All Day Google Events – What to set status to for All Day events

BusyStatus of Other Google Events – What to set status to for non-All Day events

Set Reminder – Whether to set a PocketOutlook reminder for each event. Options are Yes, No, and Outlook Default

Outlook Events to send to Google – Select which types of event to synchronize to Google (by sensitivity setting). This option is disabled for read-only calendars

Contacts

Groups/Categories – Click refresh to download contact groups from Google as well as PocketOutlook Categories. Check off any that you want to synchronize

Sync All - Check this box to synchronize ALL contacts, regardless of category/group. Keep in mind that in certain versions of Google Mail, anyone you email will be added to your Suggested Contacts and therefore will be synchronized using this option

Default Group - If this dropdown is not blank, any local contacts will be considered to be a part of this group. This is useful if you do not want to set categories on a local contact in order to synchronize that contact

Default FileAs - This option will set FileAs to either “Last, First” or “First Last” for contacts. FileAs is the format that Contact managers use to display names