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FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
about E-Ordo
This page was updated on 29 January 2008
Q. What is new with the E-Ordo in 2007?
E-Ordo has been expanded to include basic information about Liturgy of
the Hours. The data files have also been adjusted for the new daylight
time changes (.vcs files only).
Q. Will E-Ordo work in my electronic calendar?
E-Ordo is usable with most electronic calendars on PC, Mac, or PDA platforms.
It should work on any platform that imports or uses iCal or vCal formats.
Q. What is the most common mistake people
make when downloading E-Ordo?
Based on reported issues, the most common mistake new users make is left-clicking
on the actual ical or vcal file download link rather than right-clicking
when using the Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser. Right-clicking
brings up a list of alternatives from which the user should left click
on “Save Target As.” This permits users to download and save the E-Ordo
data file in a folder on the hard drive. Then the user can open Outlook
and, from the file menu, import the file that was downloaded and saved.
Users who instead left-click directly on the link trigger an automatic
Outlook feature that adds only the First Sunday of Advent to their calendar.
The system presumes the file contains a single date event (like an appointment),
which, of course, it does not. The E-Ordo data file contains 365 events.
Internet Explorer is the most common browser, but each browser has a different
protocol to follow when downloading a file. Instructions for downloading
with some of the popular browsers are given as part of the download process.
Q. What else should I know before downloading
E-Ordo?
Before you download and import the file into your calendar, refer to your
calendar or PDA documentation, or contact your product's technical support.
Some calendars do not import iCalendar (.ics) files. If your application
uses vCalendar (.vcs) files, you will need to download the file associated
with your time zone.
Q. How do I remove the E-Ordo file from
my Outlook Calendar?
1. In the Outlook Calendar, go to the toolbar and click on View>Current
View>By Category.
2. All the Ordo entries will be listed together. Click on the "Categories:
ORDO2007" bar, and then press the delete key.
3. To return to your calendar view, click on View>Current View and
select the calendar view you prefer.
Note: As of 2007, the eordo category includes the year, so that the
calendar information can be removed for one year at a time.
Q. What about the new daylight time changes
in 2007 and beyond?
The answer depends on what your setup is. If you are a Microsoft
Outlook user, and installing your update for daylight time in 2007
shifted a few weeks of data so that it is on the wrong day, all you need
to do is follow the directions above to remove ALL of the E-Ordo data for
2007 and then import the data again. This may also be the case for Mac
users and any other users who imported ICal files in the first place. This
annoying disruption should only occur one time.
If you are a VCal user (Palm Desktop, Microsoft Works,
or other), you should update your system and desktop calendar for the new
rules (new dates) for daylight time, then import the vcal file of E-Ordo
data. If you have made the changes to daylight time, make sure you have
downloaded the appropriate data file on or after March 14. If your desktop
cannot be updated to the new dates for time change, then email us and we
will send you the appropriate file for the pre-2007 daylight time rules.
Q. Although I imported E-Ordo into Outlook,
the date events do not sync to my mobile 6 device. Why? (modified 1/25/08)
Apparently Windows Mobile6 and its Active Sync software is a little overactive.
It seems to have learned to distinguish a manually entered event from an
imported event, and someone decided that it would be best to, without asking,
totally ignore imported events when syncing. (E-Ordo feast and event data
is “imported” into Outlook. Please contact Microsoft to complain about
this thoughtless treatment.) Raj Pillai, from Microsoft, has given us the
following workaround. If you have Outlook 2003 or newer, and ActiveSync
with Windows Mobile 6, you can follow these directions:
This involves a bit of work but it synchronizes all the feasts into
the WM 6.0 device. What you need to do is create a new Calendar folder
and move all the appointments that are in your main calendar to this new
Calendar folder. To do this easily and quickly follow these steps:
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Open Outlook 2003 or higher and goto Calendar.
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Right-click the Calendar folder and create a new folder of Calendar Type.
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Click View -> Arrange by -> Current View -> By Category (This will list
all your feasts category wise)
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Select All (Press Ctrl + A) and drag the selected items into your new folder.
Once this is done, import your appointments via the iCalendar file and
you will find the appointments in the main Calendar. Next Click File
-> Import and Export -> Select Export to a file-> Select "Personal folder
file (.pst) -> and select the Calendar folder (do not tick the option to
include sub folders) and follow the prompts to create the .pst file.
This pst file will contain only the iCalendar appointments and can be distributed
for Import into Outlook just in the manner you were distributing the iCalendar
file.
Once the pst file is created, you can delete all the appointments in
your main Calendar in Outlook (if you wish), and move the other appointments
from your temp folder using the steps given earlier.
Q. How do I use the E-Ordo in Australia?
(This response courtesy of Father John Hill): If you decide to make the
modifications for Australia, you will need to:
1. remove celebrations peculiar to the United States, and
2. make the following adaptations:
(a) move the memorial of Sts. Timothy and Titus
to 23 January;
(b) insert Australia Day at 26 January;
(c) note that St. Patrick, 17 March, is a solemnity;
(d) insert the optional memorial of Bernadette Soubirous
at 16 April;
(e) insert Anzac Day at 25 April;
(f) move the feast of St. Mark to 26 April;
(g) insert the memorial of St. Peter Chanel at 28
April;
(h) insert the solemnity of Mary, Help of Christians,
Patron of Australia, at 24 May;
(i) insert the optional memorial of Peter To Rot
at 7 July;
(j) move the memorial of St. Dominic to 5 August;
(k) insert the feast of Blessed Mary MacKillopp
at 8 August.
Q. I have Outlook, and when I import E-Ordo
it messes up the entries for half of the year.
Assuming you have downloaded the proper .ics file for Outlook, the described
situation occurs because of a Windows time setting. Go to Start | Settings
| Control Panel | Date / Time and below your time zone selection is a little
checkbox that says "Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes."
This box should be checked before importing E-Ordo. If it is not checked,
check it, use the directions above to remove the data from Outlook, and
then re-import E-Ordo.
Q. I have a Blackberry. How can I get the E-Ordo
onto it?
A customer writes: I have Palm Desktop from my old Treo, and I had EOrdo
on that from my Treo. From Palm Desktop I exported the EOrdo file to a
dba file. Then I went on to Yahoo and in MyYahoo added the desktop calendar.
I imported the dba file to MyYahoo's calendar. Then I opened the Blackberry
Desktop Manager and opened the sync program. There is an option in the
configuration program to import the Yahoo desktop calendar. I had to open
my internet explorer and go to myYahoo before running the sync. When I
ran the sync program from Blackberry it loaded the EOrdo onto my smartphone.
If someone has any calendar program that exports to dba format this
should work.
Q. I have a Sony Clie T615C PDA, with Avantgo
and Mobile Gabriel. With E-Ordo installed Avantgo gives me a "Fatal Exception
— Reset" message. What's wrong?
E-Ordo events are installed under their own category (ORDO). The
“installation” of E-Ordo is really an addition of “events” with their respective
information. Uninstalling E-Ordo is a matter of removing these events,
which can be done by category (remove all events under the category, etc.).
The error, raised by the Avantgo software, is a message that indicates
some condition has occured which prevents Avantgo from running and resets
the program. E-Ordo is data, not a program, and makes no configuration
changes.
Solution: Delete Avantgo and all of its associated files
from the PDA, and then reload it from the website.
Q. When I downloaded, why did it put only
the First Sunday of Advent in my Outlook?
This sometimes occurs when a step is omitted in the download process. If,
with Internet Explorer, a person left-clicks on the download link (that
is, the link in step 3 of the download process that offers a selection
of specific files to be downloaded), only the first date will be automatically
inserted in your Outlook calendar, and all or most of the other dates will
be ignored. Instead of left-clicking on the file link, right-click on the
file link and select "Save Target As." Left-click on this selection. This
will open a Save dialog window and give you a chance to save the file that
you are downloading in a folder of your choosing. We recommend browsing
to "My Documents" in the Save In window and saving the downloaded file
in that folder. Then, open your Outlook calendar and import the file just
saved, according to the instructions.
Q. My question isn't answered here. Where do
I turn now?
Submit your question (mention E-Ordo) using our feedback
form and we will send you an answer via e-mail right away.
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