The long anticipated Daylite 3.5 is out. We took longer than we planned but we wanted to make sure it was right. Shoehorning a multi-user system into an inherently single-user sync system is not easy, but we did it.
Now you can have your calendar and those shared contacts on your iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, iPod and other devices! (You might need additional software for some of these devices).
In the process, we added a global Trash system to handle unexpected deletes. With the data being exposed to so many other things (each user’s address book, devices etc…), the likelihood of accidental deletes increases exponentially. If that happens, you (or an admin) can now go to the Trash window and restore the object. The Trash system works throughout the app and is better than undo. Every once in a while, you can empty the Trash – just like in Mac OS X, except this is multi-user.
We also added 300+ contextual Apple Help articles. You will now see purple help buttons throughout the app. We are hoping this will help a lot of new users get going and expose unknown features to existing users.
And then there are all kinds of little tweaks and bug fixes – over 100 of them.
So this is a really comprehensive release, and we hope our users will appreciate the free update. We are really excited about it. Having all this shared data on our iPhones has been really cool.
I’d like to thank our team here and the 200 strong beta test team for their persistence and commitment! It is great to be working with such a fine set of people.
So check out the updated Daylite pages (a little subtle) here. The official press release is here.
Until next time…
AJ
dave says:
just downloaded, installed, ran the assorted updates and it works **flawlessly** – i’m using a treo 700p with missing sync for palm…it quickly told me there was a conflict with every record (all minor as they were tiny things like spacing for the word ‘email’ and so on, no actual data conflicts) and then i just picked “daylite” to resolve them all, synched up with ical and address book…connected my palm, synched up and all was perfect…in fact, this resolved an ongoing issue i was having with sync earlier between daylite and address book – which is now gone!
thanks for all of the hard work. this is a beautiful piece of software…
Brian Perry says:
Great news- looks like an en excellent update.
Note: Lightbox effect on the main Daylite page is not working in Safari Version 3.0.3 (522.12.1) running in 10.4.10. It does work in Firefox 2.0.0.6 just fine- that where I went to see it.
Thanks for all the work.
AJ says:
I’m not sure whether it a Safari 3 or Lightbox bug. I figured we’d wait it out a bit.
Brian Perry says:
Thanks AJ-
I have used Lightbox Gone Wild with Safari 3 with no problems for a similar application.
http://particletree.com/features/lightbox-gone-wild/
However, Safari 3 is giving me bugs with some things that should work just fine as well, so I see where you’re coming from.
Jim says:
The syncing crashes EVERY TIME for me. Is this a BETA version or one for commercial release??
AJ says:
I tested our site with the latest Leopard seed and it works fine now. So the fix is in Safari – maybe it just hasn’t made it out yet.
Phew!
AJ says:
Indeed some people are experiencing crashes. Please make sure you submit the email(s) so that Engineering can track it down. We have identified a couple of issues and we’ll have a 3.5.1 out soon.
Jim says:
Thanks, great to see you are on top of it. I have sent in my crash logs.
Jim says:
I also duplicated everyone’s email addresses in all my contacts. More like quadrupled!!
David Meyers says:
why ON EARTH would you make all these changes to sync and then disable the ability to sync palm notes (where the REALLY important stuff is stored)?
this is really disheartening considering that a lot of these upgades are SORELY NEEDED, like an actual help menu.
AJ says:
The answer is simple. There is no Apple sanctioned Note schema on Tiger. There should be one in Leopard. Adopting one of the exisitng third party schemas is not a good idea. There are 7 of them – which one will win against Apple’s upcoming schema? The answer is “none”. So it is prudent to wait.
We are being very clear and upfront about the lack of Notes synchronization.
Brian Perry says:
Syncing is working great for me, and for the first time is allowing me to commit fully to Daylite because the ability to sync contacts and iCal events with my phone.
Thanks!
Kevin Peace says:
Upgraded to 3.5 – Will not accept sign-on or password. Tries to put in a request. It sent me to a non-helpful factoid. No ability or confirmation my request for support was sent. My business is at a standstill because I cannot access my database.
AJ says:
Kevin,
It is related to passwords. We had to update some security stuff in 3.5 to make the system more secure. Unfortunately some passwords aren’t accepted and we have to handle them on a case by case basis. I hear support has already email you with a fix.
Sorry about that!
Chris Holland says:
Daylite doesn’t automatically sync additions to calendar in ICal.
Ical and Address Book automatically upload changes into Daylite.
Daylite automatically uploads new addresses into Address Book.
But the daylite to ICal connection fails.
AJ says:
Chris,
There could be several reasons for this. This is not the best place to get support. Please go to our support page or email support and someone will help you out. I’m sure there is a valid explanation.
colbert says:
cool stuff. I will see later how Daylite works between my Symbian and WM5 device
David says:
Just checking that when Leopard ships, that Daylite and DMI are ready to work?
AJ says:
Not immediately – but we will have a beta sometime next week. Check my latest post on this.
oscar says:
installs fine, by demo crashes on both laptop and desktop. would love to use it, but can’t get beyond the crashes right after install. waste on major time…not quite ‘mac’ like….
AJ says:
Please make sure you speak to our support people. There are rare cases during the sync where a crash can occur and we are working on resolving those. We’ve ironed out a few with 3.5.2, there might be a few more.