on 1/14/02 9:34 AM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 1/14/02 9:11 AM, "Eric Hildum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I did notice one problem with Entourage when checking the various fields � >> children�s names are not exported when contacts are exported. Is this >> intentional? > > It's probably related to the fact that, in AppleScript, 'children' is a > list, which makes it harder to export. there's probably something similar at > the AppleEvent level. A separator would have to be chosen : almost any > normal separator would mess up most other import programs: it can't be > carriage return (uses as separator for the records. i.e. contacts). nor tab > used for fields), and both comma and semi-colon are used by other import > programs although would suggest comma could have been chosen. (In Windows > programs, there's a clever device used to put the whole field in quotes when > there's one of the standard separators used as punctuation within the field, > but that's not understood by Mac programs.) There is an extra problem, at > least in AppleScript although probably not at the programming level, whereby > the Unicode used for UI text can't be defined for a list.
What's wrong with the solution chosen for email addresses, which faces the same problem? For email addresses, a new column is added to the export list (email 1, email 2, etc.) so that the contact that has the maximum number of email addresses will have all addresses exported. Since people tend to have fewer children than email addresses, this isn't going to add too many additional columns to the export file. -- Eric Hildum -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
