“For Your iPhone Only”

By Jake • August 22nd, 2007 • View Comments

iphone.jpgFor those Oracle people who come here to read iPhone fodder, I’ve started an internal wiki to collect all the tips and tricks that have surfaced from Oracletes with iPhones. Drop me a note to get the 411.

Rich is still jealous. However, he may be in luck. Paul may be taking AppsLab on the road to the Office 2.0 Conference, September 5-7 at the St. Regis in San Francisco. More details on that to follow.

Here’s the kicker. Every registrant gets an iPhone. No joke.

Update: Rich may not be able to go. <Giggle/>

Update 7/14/2008: There’s a new home for all things Oracle iPhone. Read about it here.

Update 8/7/2008: The content we used to host on the wiki is now rolled into official content provided by IT and security. So, no more wiki. If you want to share information with other iPhone users, there’s a group on Connect and a mailing list.


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  • Sudeep
    Hi Jake...can I get the link plz....thnx!!!
  • Jay
    Sorry, I was specifically looking for how to get working ical files out of Oracle Calendar so users can subscribe from Google, sundbird, etc. Some posts indicated there was a solution on the internal Oracle wiki for this, so that's what I was after.

    I'll move forward with ocal2ical code on google

    Cheers!
  • Ah, got it. If there was solution on the wiki, it would have been what you can find out on the 'tubes :) We don't hold back secret stuff that's not for customers.

    I can tell you that those on Beehive have more options, but I am not one of the lucky ones to be migrated to Beehive yet.
  • jhilliar
    Me too
  • Hi Jay. Sorry, but this wiki was for employees only, and the content has been deprecated.
  • jhilliar
    Thanks, I appreciate the feedback.
    It sure sucks that Oracle employees are enjoying an internal solution
    while us paying Oracle customers are left without one.
    :-(

    Do you know why it was deprecated? Was an alternative solution published
    anywhere?
    Is this what I'm looking for maybe? http://code.google.com/p/ocal2ical/

    Jay
  • Not sure exactly what you mean by solution, but I don't think we have one officially.

    I started the wiki in July 2007, right when the iPhone debuted, to collect tips/settings on how to connect to email, etc. At the time, there were dozens of iPhone users internally, not thousands.

    After the 3G iPhone came out, our IT published the same content, and I took down my wiki b/c it fractured the information and was extra cost to maintain for our team.

    Sorry to disappoint.
  • michal novak
    i'm interesting too ;), thanks
  • Mikael Wallsten
    I’m an oracle employee, could you send me the link to the
    internal wiki page?
  • Ruud Bijkerk
    Hi Jake,

    Could you please email me the link of the internal iphone wiki page.
    Also there seems to be a product that will allow you to wirelesly sync your oracle calendar with your iphone. It's called syncml2iphone. Does anyone have experience with this product?

    Regards,
    Ruud
  • Brook
    Hi Jake,
    I also just got an iphone and would love to see the wiki.

    Thanks,
    Brook
  • Jason Rees
    Hi Jake,

    I just bought an iphone. Can you send me the link to the internal wiki site?

    Thanks

    Jason
  • Carl Vadnais
    I’m an oracle employee, could you send me the link to the
    internal wiki page?

    Thanks,

    Carl
  • Brian Jones
    Please send me the wiki link as well.
  • nanda
    Hi, can you please send me the wiki link. Thanks.
  • Greg
    Hi Jake,
    I’m an oracle employee (France), could you send me the link to the internal wiki page?
    Thank's a lot.
    Greg
  • Robin
    Hi Jake,

    Oracle employee - can I please get the URL to the internal wiki
  • Antony John
    Got it..tnx
  • Jake
    @Antony: Go to Connect and find the "Have an iPhone?" group or drop me an email from your oracle.com address.
  • Antony John
    I'm an oracle employee, could you send me the link to the internal wiki page?

    Thanks,
    --Antony.
  • Jake
    @Greg: I've created a group on Connect for iPhone stuff, including a link to the wiki page. I invited you.
  • Gregg Smith
    I'm an Oracle Employee and would love the internal link
    please. Could you please send.

    Thanks
  • Jake
    @Martine: I've created a group on Connect for all things iPhone, including a link to the old wiki page. I invited you to join.
  • Martine
    hi - can you send me link to internal wiki?
    Thanks!
  • Jake
    Hi Jason. Please drop me a note from your oracle.com address, and I'll forward the wiki.
  • MVGhanesh
    Hi Jake,

    Please let me know the link for the wiki to sync my iphone with collabsuite.

    Thanks in advance.

    Regards,

    MVGhanesh
  • Hi there. The wiki is no more. It was replaced by official IT content, and there's no good way to sync with Collabsuite. Although I hear they have something from a third party, I don't use it. Thanks.
  • Jason Reynolds
    Hi Jake,
    I'm an Oracle employee. May I get the
    411 on the wiki?

    Thanks
  • Hi can you send me the link to internal wiki 411?
    Thanks
    Arun
  • Pau Contreras
    Hi! I'm an Oracle employee and I'm very interested in getting access to the internal wiki. Please can you send me the URL.
    Thanks a lot!
    Pau.-
  • Yan Chen
    Hi Jake, Would love to get the info for the internal wiki. Thanks, Yan
  • Yan Chen
    Hi Jake,
  • Anu
    Hi! Jake - just got an iPhone, would really like a way to sync calendar. Thanks for sharing info.
  • Jake
    @kathleen: Sorry, but the wiki lives inside the Oracle firewall and collects information about how to use the iPhone with our internal systems.

    Why do you want to jailbreak your phone? Is there a specific app you want to use?
  • kathleen
    I would like to internal info for the calendar sync. I have firmware 1.1.4 and I guess I can't use the jailbrake that I found out there. Can you help a less than technical lover of the iphone?

    Thanks!
  • Tom Herold
    I too am an Oracle Employee and would like to have the Wiki site. Can you please send?

    Thank You

    Tom
  • alex
    No prizes for guessing my question....can you please send through the wiki link to me?
    Thanks

    Sid - i got my ipone working against oracles guest network easily (clear guest) downside is the password changes daily.
  • Jake
    @Eduardo: I can't speak for product development and their current plans.

    I can suggest that you join Oracle Mix and add this as an idea to gauge the support it has. Mix is reviewed by product teams so the appropriate team can see the idea and judge the support behind it.

    Based on the number of comments and requests I get each week for the iPhone wiki driven by this post, I'd say you have a pretty large number of Oracle employees who would support your idea.
  • Eduardo Borges
    Hi- I am an employee of a university using an Outlook with the Oracle connector. In light of last night's Apple announcement to provide full Exchange integration, will Oracle be following suit? Many of us on faculty and Staff would like to or already have iPhones and want to be able to sync to Outlook but can't. Additionally our ITS Dept. has concerns that they will not be able to provide support and may be recomending Blackberrys instead. Any feedback would be appreciated.
  • Beth Cooley
    Hi - I am an Oracle employee (Consulting division). Can you send me the wiki link for the internal discussion on iphones?

    Thx, Beth
  • Charlie Burnett
    Hello!
    I'm a Graphic Designer and Usability Specialist within the Technology Business at Oracle, working out of the Reston Office. I just picked up an iPhone tonight and I'd love a link to the internal wiki!
    Thanks,
    Charlie
  • Jake
    @Judy: Sorry, but the wiki lives inside the Oracle firewall. So, it wouldn't do you any good. Most of the info is about how to use the iPhone with our internal collaboration tools, not generally about Oracle products and iPhones. Thanks.
  • I work for the computer center at the University of Illinois at Chicago; I write our Web pages. I'm working on a Web page about syncing iPhones with Oracle Connector. May I please have your internal wiki link? (I don't plagiarize! :)

    Thanks!

    Judy GS
  • sid
    Hi Jake,

    I am an Oracle employee too, with a new iPhone.

    Could you please send me the internal wiki link? Also, is there any where i can look to activate WiFi in my phone to use Oracle's network? I cant seem to get the settings right.

    Any help will be appretiated.
    Thx.

    Sid
  • Paulo Castro
    Hi Jake, could you please share your wiki page for iphone? I'll be glad if you could send it to my e-mail. Tnx
  • Irina
    Could you send me wiki link - I am oracle employee.
  • You should try the iPhone client of Funambol, which is open source and syncs your native address book of the iPhone with a SyncML server. You need a jailbreak or you can use the web interface. And it won't need a jailbreak as soon as Apple releases its SDK this month.

    Check it out at http://www.funambol.com/solutions/iphone.php
    Cheers,

    fabrizio
  • Erhan
    Don't use syncml2iphone, you're giving them your username and password.
  • Jake
    FYI, syncml requires a jailbreak.
  • Krzysztof Wysocki
    Guys,

    Please have a look at http://syncml2iphone.com/pmwiki.php
    I use it to sync my calendar with Oracle Calendar

    BRGD
    Chris
  • Craig Lisowski
    Hi could you please send me the internal link? Thanks
  • Lucie
    Please send me the link to the iphone wiki. Thank You
  • shawn fox
    Please send me the link to the iphone wiki. thanks
  • Pankaj
    Pls send me link to iphone wiki , thanks!
  • Dennis Vernon
    Please send me the link to your internal wiki - I’m interested in any Oracle-related iPhone capabilities. Thanks!
  • mark
    Please send me the link to your internal wiki - I'm interested in any Oracle-related iPhone capabilities. Thanks!
  • Tim
    Sorry... this is from my Oracle email. Can you send me the link.

    Thanks,

    Tim
  • Jud Brandt
    Hey! I'm new employee at ORCL and I'm psyched about my iphone.... Until I found out I couldn't get Collab suite on it. Can I get the link to the internal wiki?
  • Jake
    Jacinta: Sorry, the wiki is inside the Oracle firewall, so it's for employees only. Feel free to start a wiki on this subject at the Oracle wiki, wiki.oracle.com.
  • Jacinta McDermott
    could i please have the link as well? i am trying to sync iphone with oracle :) thanks xoxo jacinta xoxo
  • cj
    411 on internal wiki for iPhone please.
  • Andy
    Can you please forward the internal iPhone Wiki site? I'm an Oracle employee.

    Thanks
  • Thomas
    can you please email the wiki to me? i’m a sales rep and I’d like to use my iPhone calendar as well.
  • Jake
    Paul: Unfortunately, the wiki is internal to Oracle for the experiences of employees with iPhones. You could start an external one over at wiki.oracle.com.
  • Craig
    can you please email the wiki to me? I work for oracle and I’d like to use my iPhone as well.
  • Paul
    Unfortunately, I am not working for Oracle .........
  • Jake
    Tim/Paul: If you work for Oracle, send me a note from your work accounts. You used personal accounts in the comments.
  • Paul
    I have a brand new iphone and Oracle Calendar since fe days .... I am very interested

    thanks
  • Tim
    Hi, I'd like to use email, contacts, and calendar sync with Oracle Collab Suite (on my iPhone)... I work for Oracle as well.

    Please send me the link to read up on the details

    Thanks!
  • Josh
    can you please email the wiki to me? i'm a sales rep and I'd like to use an iPhone as well.
  • Jake
    Praveen: This is good news. Send me an email, and I'll send you the wiki site, so you can document the process. There are a lot of people out there who want calendar integration.
  • Praveen
    I just downloaded iTunes 7.5 (which was released today) and with that, the Outlook Calendar sync work like a charm. Sync capability with Outlook Connector plug in was one feature I was waiting for from the time I bought my iPhone. Now with the new iTunes update, that no longer is an issue.
  • DMW
    I am at oracle and I would love access to that Wiki too. Just got the iPhone and I am a little bummed that I can't sync it to my calendar.
  • Lawrence
    Just got my iPhone and would like to sync to collab calendar as well. could you email me the link to your internal wiki?
  • daniel bacon
    I would also be interested in getting the calendar working... Any chance in getting acres to that info on how to make it work? Only the export/import method seems to work....
  • MK
    Jake : Can I get access to your internal wiki ? I'm interested and ... I'm from Oracle ;) Thanks !
  • Jake
    Shawn: I can't send it to you if I don't know who you are :-)
  • shawn
    can you send me the link to the internal wiki that you started to get iphone to sync with oracle collab suite.

    thanks,
  • Jake
    Totally. You are not alone. We use it internally, so we're pushing to get more features too.
    Jake
  • Drew
    It would sure be nice if Oracle Cal offered something like https://tools.wisccal.wisc.edu/cal/index.jsp out of the box.
  • Jake
    Alas, Rich decided to do other things. We should start a "Buy Rich an iPhone" pool to get him to hack together some tools.

    I have no idea about SyncML. Drop me an email, and I'll point you to the internal wiki I started.

    Jake
  • Daisy
    Jake.
    Did Rich go to the conference? I really want the hack to get Oracle Calendar entries on the iPhone. Our wonderful Collabsuite Connector will not allow us to sync to Collabsuite. To bad the iPhone doesnt support SyncML (or does it? ). My Nokia was getting along with Oracle's SyncML for calendar.
  • Jake
    Drew,
    I guess it depends on the version you're running. From what I've seen, you'll need to export to ical or vcal, then import to iCal to sync to iPhone. It's a bit clunky, but that's 50% Apple's fault for only supporting iCal. I think there's some kung fu you could do on the server side to export a calendar automatically, but you still have the manual iCal step.
    Keep in mind I still run Palm for my calendar b/c it has 10 years of data, and I haven't found a good way to move it all to a modern calendar.
    I'll bet you could find some sweet hacks out there to make it easier.
    Sorry I can't be more helpful. Wait until Rich gets one, then I suspect you'll find a lot more iPhone hacks here.
    Thanks,
    Jake
  • Drew
    I know you said it's for internal use only, but I'd be really interested in any Oracle Calendar iPhone tricks you have. We're using it where I work (as a support tech) and we're seeing more and more iPhones popping up around campus.
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