Custom Icons

Today Icon
If a start or due date is Today, it will be shown with a today icon. This icon is completely user congurable by replacing the \Application Data\WebIS or \My Documents\WebIS \Icons\~duetoday.bmp or ~starttoday.bmp with your own - including a bitmap of words. Look at the Icon Display section for information about creating Pocket Informant icons.

Custom Category Icons Recommended specications for custom category icons:

Size: Icons of a height of 12 pixels (for QVGA mode) or 24 pixels (for High DPI mode) are highly recommended. Any width you want is ne. Technically, any size icon is allowed. Transparency Color: Green 0,255,0 Format: Bitmap (.bmp extension)

No Category Icon
Although there is no automatic way of adding the No Category icon, you can copy a bitmap to the \Application Data\WebIS or \My Documents\WebIS\Icons folder and name it ~NoCategory.bmp. Restart Pocket Informant and it will show that icon when no categories were applied to an item.

Known Issues/Compatibility/Limitations
Informing attendees of Meeting changes
If you are using a Pocket PC 2002 or Windows Mobile 2003/2003SE system, informing attendees of meeting creation/changes/cancellations by email may NOT always work. This is a known bug in the Microsoft OS for third party applications integration.

Intellisync on Windows Mobile 2003

If you are using Intellisync to sync your device you must use the Pocket Informant Options Control Panel to choose Intellisync Compatible in the Advanced section. Then start Pocket Informant and go to the Tools menu (Pocket Informant icon) and choose Data Management > Cleanup Pocket Informant Extras. This will remove extra elds such as attached icons or extra category info that Pocket Informant uses, but which causes Intellisync to not work.

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Using Location Editor

If you use Pocket Outlook Calendar to add an appointment and type in a new location in the location bar, it may overwrite one of your presets.

Resolving Duplicate Birthdays/Anniversaries

If you have Outlook on the desktop and the Contact based Birthdays turned on, you will get duplicate birthdays within Pocket Informant. This is caused by Outlook creating recurring All Day events for these birthdays in addition to Pocket Informant creating virtual events. Of course, the Pocket Informant version looks nicer and has age information. To resolve this, turn off the Birthday and Anniversary option. Then in Outlook nd all your Birthdays with a Find command or with the recurring view. Globally assign them all to the Birthdays category and Pocket Informant will then treat them as Calendar events as described above.

Using Contact Pictures with Outlook 2003

Contact pictures can be synched directly with Outlook 2003 if you have ActiveSync 4.1 or higher. If you have Outlook 2003, contact pictures cannot be synced directly, but you can assign contact pictures from the \Application Data\WebIS\ContactPics folder so that you only have one store of pictures to maintain.

Pocket Informant Features not supported in Outlook

Some features of Pocket Informant are not supported on the desktop, due to varying reasons

Regenerating Tasks
Desktop Outlook does not support Regenerating tasks (only recurring tasks). If you mark a regenerating task complete in Outlook, the task will not regenerate.

Hierarchical Tasks
Desktop Outlook does not support HT, and so will not display the tasks hierarchically. Editing tasks on Outlook will not affect the Hierarchy on Pocket Informant, though.

Task Priorities
Task priorities are only handled as such within Pocket Informant. The priorities do sync to the desktop by appending the priority info to a subject name like this: A01: This is a test Subject. While neither Pocket Outlook nor Desktop Outlook understand these priorities and will not sort on them directly, sorting by subject will arrange your tasks into priority order.