I am afraid I have to disagree with you. Job titles are separate from
degrees earned a academic institutions and forms used to identify which of
several identically named people you are referring to. In common and proper
English usage, a job title is never placed following a name as a part of the
name, unlike the Ph.D or Jr. suffixes. In this case, Entourage and Palm are
correct and match proper usage of the fields. (Though it could be argued
that Palm should have prefix and suffix fields.)
Note that you also included the form of address Esquire - this is really
separate from all of the above.
Eric Hildum
Director, CTC Business Unit
Itochu Technology Inc.
3100 Patrick Henry Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95054-1850 USA
Tel: +1-408-653-2818
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> From: Bruce Klutchko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:25:38 -0400
> To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Corollary to a Small Bug
>
> To: Paul and the MBU team
>
> [I previously wrote that Entourage has a small bug in importing contact info
> from Now Contact. It imports "title" info into the "job title" field instead
> of the "suffix" field. This minor annoyance was fixed by Paul's
> AppleScript.]
>
> But now I have discovered a corollary "issue" to this import problem: when
> syncing with the Palm, info from the "Job Title" field is sent to the Palm's
> "Title" field. Therefore, a person who has the degree "DDS" in the suffix
> field and the job title field is blank will have a Palm "Title" field which
> is either blank or (using Paul's script to display categories) will display
> the category name(s).
>
> This is not so much a bug per se as it is a conceptual issue regarding the
> way the fields "Suffix" and "Job Title" are used. I believe that
> professional titles should go into the "suffix" field, because that will
> allow the proper display in the summary view of a name. For example, "John
> Smith, Jr., Esq." Placing the professional title into the job title field
> leaves the name as "John Smith, Jr." Don't forget that John Smith, Jr., Esq.
> could have the job title "Director of Patent Litigation". But shouldn't the
> professional title then be sent to Palm's "Title" field as well?
>
> I'm sure that I can make a temporary workaround by adapting one of Paul's
> scripts to duplicate the info to get the Palm to display the desired info in
> some field, but it would sure be nice to have consistency. Either Paul's
> script "Fix Suffix Now E" should not be used (and I think it is the way to
> go) and your Palm sync is OK, or both the mods introduced by Paul's script
> should be used and the Palm Sync should be changed.
>
> Does anyone know how Palm Desktop handles syncing professional titles with
> the Palm?
>
> Bruce
>
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