Re: More on the "Suffix" vs. "Title" problem

[Bruce Klutchko]

Title: Re: More on the "Suffix" vs. "Title" problem

Omar,

Right.

Here is what is going on now:

   Now Contact "Title --> Entourage "Job Title" --> Palm "Title"

And this is what I think should happen:

    Now Contact "Title" --Entourage "Suffix" --> Palm "Title"

In Entourage, "Job Title" should be for "Vice President of Ambiguity and Befuddlement"

In Entourage, "Suffix" should be for "Jr., Ph.D." et al.

Now Contact uses "Title" for "Jr., Ph.D." et al.

If this is done, the “Summary Display” in Entourage might be:

   Kurt Curmugeon, Jr., Ph.D.
    Vice President of Ambiguity and Befuddlement

The way it is now, it reads:

        Kurt Curmugeon
        Jr. Ph.D.

This is a conceptual issue that is not technically a bug. But the result is that to have the professional degrees appear in my Palm, I have to have it incorrect in Entourage. If I use Paul’s script to fix it in Entourage, then the conduit to the Palm does not display the suffix information at all.

Try some examples yourself, and see if you don’t agree.

And thanks for being on the list and picking up on these things.

Bruce

on 10/20/00 1:51 AM, Omar Shahine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Are you suggesting we not map Title to Job Title?
>
> -Omar
>
> On 10/19/00 6:40 PM, "Bruce Klutchko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Just to see what happened, I erased my Palm Address database and overwrote
>> the empty database with the data from Now Contact. Just as I recalled,
>> information from its"Title" field, which contains the professional degree,
>> etc. appears in the Palm's "Title" field. It is handled like E'rage's
>> "Suffix" field.
>>
>> The bigger problem is in the way that E'rage sends info to the Palm, sending
>> its "Job Title" and not its "Suffix" info into the Palm's "Title" field.
>> This is a big problem for me because I often need to know who is an RN and
>> who is an MD or PhD when I look up their numbers (some of the contacts are
>> none of those, so it's hard to remember them all).
>>
>> For now, I plan to try to adapt one of Paul's scripts to manipulate the data
>> in E'rage to display the suffix along with the category info in the "Title"
>> field. This will at least display the info in the Palm for me. How I'm going
>> to get it out of the Title field, if E'rage ever gets fixed, is another
>> problem. (For $125,000, will I learn how to parse strings in AppleScript
>> before MS fixes the conduit?)
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>> --  
>> Bruce Klutchko
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>

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