Difference between revisions of "CalDAV-Sync account settings"

Revision as of 19:56, 2 June 2012

Server settings

Update password

Update the password stored by CalDAV-Sync (you need it when you change the password on the server).

Select calendars to sync

Use this setting if you want to change the selected calendars or you created new calendars on the server that you want to sync.

Advanced options

Use preemptive authentication

Enables preemptive authentication. Preemptive authentication causes the app to send BASIC authentication headers with every request. If your server accepts BASIC authenitcation this will reduce the number of round-trips and sync much faster (especially on SSL). Some servers did not like this during my tests, so I didn't enable it by default. Please note, this will send you password unencrypted over the wire (if you don't use SSL), even if your server does not accept BASIC authentication. With SSL this option should be safe to use.

Fake user-agent

This option changes the user-agent this app uses. If you were able to setup the account without this option, then you don't need it.

Sync direction

One-Way-Sync

This option disables Two-Way-Sync. Only server modifications are considered during sync, modifications on the phone don't get synced to the server.

Sync interval

Periodic auto sync

This enables an automatic sync on a regular base.

Sync interval

Sets the time between two automatic syncs.

Enable long term sync

Enables long term sync. In contrast to a regular sync long term sync allows to sync larger time ranges. To prevent unnecessary traffic this will be done on larger intervals.

Long term sync interval

Sets the time between two automatic long term syncs.

Date service settings

These options allow to specify on which connection types the app may sync. The app checks the connection type on each sync and won't sync if the current connection is not enabled here.

Global settings

Enable bug reports

This option enables bug reports during sync. If there is any error it will show a notification with an option to send a bug report. Please do not enable this option unless you feel that the app does not sync correctly. Error conditions may happen for many reasons and not all of them are bugs actually (for example if the app can not sync due to bad connectivity). Please consider to read the article about sync errors and possible reasons to see what might have caused a certain error report (not all reports may be caused by bugs in my app, they may be caused by server bugs as well).

Report connection errors

This option enables the reporting of connectivity issues. It is meant to debug connectivity issues. Connection errors are not considered to be bugs in CalDAV-Sync! Please do not send bug reports about connectivity issues if they occur occasionally. Connection issue may be caused by bad data connections or if you just changed your network type (e.g. wifi to 3G) and the connection was not completely up when Android triggered a sync. Answering reports about occasional connectivity issues takes a lot of time, time that I could spend in developing new features! You should not enable this option if everything is fine.