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12 <concept id="GUID-F23BB1F1-CF90-597F-8410-34AB8B567501" xml:lang="en"><title>PIM Subsystem |
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13 Overview</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody> |
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14 <section id="GUID-201D8954-325A-422C-94D3-772274154AF9"><title>Purpose</title> <p>This |
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15 document describes storage, organisation and utility functionalities within |
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16 Symbian platform Personal Information Management (PIM) technology, as defined |
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17 by its subsystems: Application Engines and Application Services. </p> </section> |
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18 <section id="GUID-78706FAF-6F53-4DFD-B77B-BA44C5E087B2"><title>Key Concepts</title> <p> <i>Application |
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19 Engines</i> - provide PIM data storage and manipulation. </p> <p> <i>Application |
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20 Services</i> - provide a collection of utility components.</p> <p> Application |
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21 Engines and Application Services enable user applications to acquire, organise, |
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22 maintain, and retrieve personal information. </p> <p> <i>Subsystem</i> - a |
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23 cohesive group of components within a single technology. </p> <p> <i>Component</i> - |
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24 the smallest unit of architectural significance and the finest grained unit |
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25 of description. </p> </section> |
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26 <section id="GUID-A76EE4BC-565F-4F5E-8943-1F9BE03B4D07"><title>Architectural |
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27 Relationships</title> <p>PIM <xref href="GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48.dita">Application |
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28 Services</xref> technology delivers high-level OS services for storage and |
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29 manipulation of user data (such as a collection of Calendar and Contacts items). |
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30 PIM subsystem components are part of Application Engines and Application Services. |
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31 The Symbian platform Generic Middleware layer contains the following PIM components: |
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32 Alarm Server, Time Zone Server and Help Model. </p> <p>All the components |
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33 are contained between the OS Services layer and the User Interface layer. </p> <p>Key |
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34 clients of these components are licensee applications that use subsystems |
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35 such as Telephony, SyncML and Messaging. </p> <fig id="GUID-5335C9B9-5C4E-5673-AB93-59C921C3AC58"> |
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36 <title>PIM Subsystem components are part of the Application Services and Generic |
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37 Middleware layers</title> |
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38 <image href="GUID-1742B2A1-6EC1-5368-919B-362516A5D452_d0e374252_href.png" placement="inline"/> |
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39 </fig> </section> |
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40 <section id="GUID-AEA465F8-77B5-45A6-B5A4-12083A9008F4"><title>Application |
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41 Engines</title> <p>Application Engines provide data storage and manipulation |
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42 for user data. </p><ul> |
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43 <li><p><xref href="GUID-A1227CAE-EE08-5EAF-8D15-81465467C0C0.dita#GUID-A1227CAE-EE08-5EAF-8D15-81465467C0C0/GUID-85D629ED-30D4-5608-A816-07BD375C6A76">Calendar</xref> enables |
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44 management of calendar entries and provides access to calendar stores. The |
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45 CalInterimAPI library is the Calendar data store. </p></li> |
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46 <li><p>The <xref href="GUID-A1227CAE-EE08-5EAF-8D15-81465467C0C0.dita#GUID-A1227CAE-EE08-5EAF-8D15-81465467C0C0/GUID-5F20F757-46F6-5652-AB0F-6B22DBB61111">Contacts |
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47 model</xref> provides a unified interface for managing contact information. </p></li> |
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48 </ul> </section> |
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49 <section id="GUID-D6AC13D1-3C9F-44B2-8691-3F4583E7D805"><title>Application |
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50 Services</title> <p>Application Services are used by multiple application |
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51 engines or applications running on Symbian. </p> <ul> |
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52 <li><p><xref href="GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48.dita#GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48/GUID-8BD6CF61-80B6-5869-AB85-F572C590DB30">Alarm |
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53 Server</xref> maintains a queue of system-wide alarms. </p></li> |
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54 <li><p><xref href="GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48.dita#GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48/GUID-32519F1C-429A-59C9-B945-D0B1F81A0AA5">Calendar |
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55 Conversion</xref> converts dates between Gregorian and Chinese lunar calendar |
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56 dates for applications requiring Chinese date support. </p></li> |
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57 <li><p><xref href="GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48.dita#GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48/GUID-6EB921E1-0048-5388-8983-87172763FAB3">Help |
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58 model</xref> manages a collection of files that provide context-sensitive |
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59 help information. </p></li> |
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60 <li><p>Notepad API is a middleware tool that you can write simple text to |
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61 and save for future reference. </p> </li> |
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62 <li><p>The Calendar Interim Utils2 is an Organizer API that provides methods |
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63 you can use to keep track of your time. It displays the individual days of |
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64 a given time period. You can add notes and memos to these dates to organize |
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65 your schedule.</p> </li> |
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66 <li><p>Phonebook APIs provide methods useful in creating a contacts database |
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67 and performing various operations on it. These APIs expand on the Contact |
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68 model.</p> </li> |
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69 <li><p><xref href="GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48.dita#GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48/GUID-4268D6AA-F468-5461-88A2-D6852D4AC69A">Time |
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70 zone localization</xref> provides localized versions of time zone and city |
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71 names. </p></li> |
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72 <li><p><xref href="GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48.dita#GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48/GUID-D30706E5-7191-5349-A883-C200B73AFED1">Time |
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73 zone server</xref> allows clients to obtain accurate conversion between any |
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74 time expressed in UTC and local time for a user's time zone. </p></li> |
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75 <li><p><xref href="GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48.dita#GUID-F43E458D-6650-5BB0-871D-2E4EB1353C48/GUID-9DFB0954-9CDF-5DAF-BA7A-54A1D64833F7">Versit</xref> is |
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76 a set of utility classes that support the import and export of data that is |
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77 formatted according to a set of standards initially defined by the Versit |
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78 consortium. </p></li> |
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79 </ul><p>There are no strong relationships between any of the subsystem components. |
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80 They are presented as a subsystem because they enable development of a set |
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81 of related applications.</p></section> |
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82 </conbody></concept> |