Home tool in the Mobile Workspace for SharePoint tool set

The Home tool is available only as part of a Mobile Workspace for SharePoint tool set. It synchronizes with the default Home page in the corresponding SharePoint site. Any user with Administrator or Advanced Author privileges can update the layout of the Home tool using the Site Settings pages in SharePoint. Once updated in SharePoint, the Home tool layout in the mobile workspace gets updated at the next synchronization.

Lists on a mobile workspace Home tool generally show the same information as those on the SharePoint site Home page. However, there are a few basic differences:

Unlike in SharePoint, the mobile workspace Home tool does not filter list items based on age or completion. For example, an event marked "completed" does not display in SharePoint but does in Groove.
Items in a Contact list in the Home tool are sorted by created date; in SharePoint, this list is sorted alphabetically.
Response topics in a Discussion Board list in the Home tool do not get indented under their parent topics; in SharePoint, response topics display with the correct hierarchical indenting.
The Home tool supports only list and document library Web parts.

Overview of Home tool features

Home tool features differ depending on whether you're the mobile workspace creator or a Groove user invited to use the mobile workspace as a member. The list below summarizes the features and information provided by the Home tool.

All members can use the Home tool either to navigate to other tools or list items, or to check synchronization status information. For example, the synchronization status area reports the time of the last successful synchronization:

Note: The synchronization time is reported according to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). To calculate the synchronization time for your time zone, first determine how your time zone compares to GMT time. You can see a list of international time zones as compared to GMT time on the Time Zone tab of the Windows Date and Time Properties dialog box (accessible from the Windows Control Panel). For example, if your computer's system clock is set for EST (Eastern Standard Time), this is equivalent to GMT-5:00.
If you're the mobile workspace creator, you can initiate synchronization from the Home tool by clicking Synchronize Now.
The status area informs invited members when the mobile workspace creator is logged off Groove or offline. For example:

Regardless of synchronization schedules, no synchronization occurs between the SharePoint site and the mobile workspace when the space creator is either logged off Groove or offline.
Provided the mobile workspace creator is online, information on the Home tool updates automatically as workspace members add items to referenced tools in the mobile workspace. For example, if contacts are listed on the Home tool, new contact items appear on the Home tool as members save them in the Contacts tool.

Note The Home tool updates automatically for the mobile workspace creator regardless of his or her online status.