You're right, I did misunderstand you. Hmmm, I guess I am not going to be
able to use Entourage for synching with my palm until this is fixed. Just as
well I have delayed purchasing Office 2001....
Eric Hildum
Director, CTC Business Unit
Itochu Technology Inc.
3100 Patrick Henry Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95054-1850 USA
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> From: Bruce Klutchko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 17:24:14 -0400
> To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Corollary to a Small Bug
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> I believe you misunderstood my point. I would never prefer a Job Title be
> placed after a name. But Entourage has it set up so that it imports the
> suffix (the Jr. or Ph.D.) into the Job Title field. This is the first error
> of which I complained. Then, when it syncs to the Palm, it sends over the
> Job Title info in lieu of the Suffix.
>
> In the Now Contact PIM, the Suffix is called "Title", which may be the cause
> of the confusion. But is is NOT the "Job Title", like "Vice-President of
> Paperwork". MS has a conceptual issue when it confuses the Suffix info with
> the Job Title. To repeat, this error shows up twice - once when importing
> from Now Contact, once while exporting to the Palm.
>
> Paul's script fixes the import problem. It does not address the sync
> problem.
>
> Bruce
>
> on 10/19/00 4:09 PM, Eric Hildum at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> 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
>> Fax: +1-408-727-4619
>> Note: Attached files may be compressed. A free decompression utility is
>> available from:
>> http://www.aladdinsys.com/expander/index.html
>> http://stuffit.act2.co.jp/download/index.html
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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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