User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- OLUSB User Guide
- 1 Installation
- 2 Basic Operations
- 3 Client Applications
- 4 Local Services
- 5 Configuration Panel
- 6 Security
- Glossary
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3.5 INFORMATION EXCHANGE
The Information Exchange service provides a way to send and receive Microsoft Outlook items to
and from another Bluetooth device, such as a Personal Digital Assistant or notebook computer.
The supported Outlook items are
• Business cards (*.vcf and *.vcd)
• Calendar entries (*.vcs)
• Notes (*.vnt)
• Messages (*.vmg)
There are three types of operations:
• Send—sends an object to another device.
• Receive—requests an object from another device.
• Exchange—sends a client object and receives a server object.
The default location of your business card and the location where received items are placed can
be configured in the Bluetooth Configuration Panel.
To send, receive or exchange an object: on the client, in the Folders pane of My Bluetooth Places,
right-click the Inbox icon of the remote device and select an option from the pop-up menu.
Business cards are sent, received or exchanged without further intervention.
To send Calendar Items, Notes, and Messages, navigate to the folder that contains the item you
want to send, select the item, and then click Open.
3.6 INFORMATION SYNCHRONIZATION
The Information Synchronization service is used to synchronize information (e.g., a Personal
Information Manager database) between a Bluetooth client and a Bluetooth server.
BTW supports synchronization with devices that support IrMC v1.1 and exchange the v2.1 vCard
format.
The first time Information Synchronization is used with a new application it may take a few
minutes to synchronize the database; the data from both devices must be merged, duplicate
entries deleted, and then the updated database copied back to both devices.
Subsequent uses of Information Synchronization, for the same application, are much faster—only
the changes that have been made since the databases were last synchronized must be
exchanged.
Microsoft Outlook is the only Personal Information Manager supported in this release of BTW.
Outlook permits duplicate entries, so all duplicates may not be exchanged in the synchronization
process.