Re: uuid field [was: more than one BBDB file]

[Saša Janiška]

"Roland Winkler"  writes:

> Currently BBDB supports only one such file.  I'd like to extend
> that.  This relates to one item that has been on my BBDB todo list
> for a long time: add uuid fields to each record so that BBDB can
> check more reliably whether two records are "equal".  Here uuid
> fields will come handy in a range of use cases, with multiple
> database files, but also, say when importing and exporting BBDB
> records from / to other databases.

That would be great to have, indeed. Single BBDB file is also the
reason why I won’t go into ASynK route and stay with bbdb-vcard
mechanism.

> Here are a few thoughts about uuid fields, please comment:

I’m too new with BBDB to be able to comment not being familiar with BBDB
structure…

> So the uuid field should become a "compulsory" field (appearing in
> the "backbone" of each record).  This requires to change (once more)
> the internal format of BBDB records.

That’s clear.

> Then I was wondering: Are there other (unrelated) changes in BBDB's
> internal format of storing records that would be desirable?  Here I
> thought of the two xfields creation-date and timestamp.

No idea about that one.


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more than one BBDB file

[Saša Janiška]

Hello,

recently I did asked author of vdir.el to provide support for using more
than one repo vdir repo for the contacts since I manage email accounts
for my & my wife on the desktop while she is mostly using mobile phone.

So, I’m interested if there is possibility to have more than one BBDB
file - e.g. one for my contacts and another for my wife and being able
to switch between the two before invoking BBDB?

Here (https://github.com/DamienCassou/vdirel/issues/2) is the
explanation how it is solved and usage in vdirel.


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Re: ASynK vs org-vcard

[Saša Janiška]

Sriram Karra  writes:

> There are no open issues that I know of
> related to losing contacts with CardDAV / Baikal.

Good.

> Can you give it a shot?

I’ll do, for sure, since using ASynK would eliminate the need to
constantly import *.vcard into BBDB. ;)

> I am happy to look into and debug any issues you may find.

May I know which server do you use for syncing?

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ASynK vs org-vcard

[Saša Janiška]

Hello,

I do sync my (Android) phone contacts (and calendars) by using DAVDroid
application which talks to Baikal server.

On my Linux desktop side I use khard for editing contacts which are then
synced with the Baikal server via vdirsyncer.

In order to sync my BBDB contacts with khard, atm I use bbdb-vcard
(https://github.com/tohojo/bbdb-vcard) which can import/export them.

There is also ASynK (https://github.com/skarra/ASynK) package which
could eliminate the need for bbdb-vcard and could automatically sync my
BBDB contacts with the Baikal server, but would like to hear some
experiences in using it and/or whether it does work with Baikal server
(I’ve recently switched to it from ownCloud for simplicity reasons)?

Moreover, by looking at the mailing list I see that there were cases
when people lost their contacts with it…


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Re: bbdb3 manual

[Saša Janiška]

Eric Abrahamsen  writes:

> Have you taken a look at this link?
>
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/UpgradeBBDB

No.

> It's only the bare minimum of information, but if you start trying to
> sort things out using BBDB v3, and things go wrong, this page can often
> be useful.

The point is that I *never* used BBDB before…

> Also, people don't often realize that the README in the codebase, and
> the code comments themselves, are actually fairly clear and informative.
> It's not ideal, but it's pretty useful.

I'll take a look at those and plan to somewhat develop my Elisp skills,
althogh proper manual would be nice to have as well…


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