Thanks for all the thought you have obviously put into this issue. I cannot disagree, of course, that the Plam needs more fields. Although all-in-all, it is an extremely easy and useful device.
But please don’t forget that even if Now is wrong in the way it uses the Personal Title field, in the next version of Entourage the import from Now into Entourage should still place that info into the suffix field, where it belongs. And the Summary Display in Entourage should display the Suffix Info following the name, whether it is imported or manually entered. The same would go for the Address Book printout.
Also, may I suggest that the categories (all of them pertaining to a given record) be displayed somewhere (perhaps in a blank area) in the summary view? The only thing easier than running Paul’s applescript to fix this would be for it to be done automatically by Entourage.
Thanks again.
Bruce
on 10/24/00 1:36 AM, Omar Shahine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, as far as I am concerned the Palm title field is for Job Title and not for the Title of the name. Hence, mapping our Suffix to the Palm Title would be the wrong thing to do. I think Now Contact is not doing the right thing in this case.
You should ask Palm if the would add some more fields to a contact record for you. I sure wish they would. 4 years later and the contact records hasn’t changed one bit. Like my contacts only have 4 phone numbers, 1 email and only one mailing address...
-Omar
On 10/20/00 8:39 PM, "Bruce Klutchko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
>>
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