On 7/11/07 12:56 AM, "Jan Martel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks to Paul's very helpful response regarding iPhone <-> Entourage > sync'ing being through Sync Services, I decided I should clean up my > contacts and then make sure they sync'ed properly to the Apple Address Book > in preparation for sync'ing to the iPhone. I hadn't had sync services > selected before (forget why). So I selected it with what appeared to be > Entourage over-writes AB. That seems to have worked - at least the AB has > lots of contacts in it now. I'm not sure how they're sorted, although it > looks like it's by last name, except some seem to have put both first and > last names in one place so are getting sorted to the top because the last > name is blank. > > But that's not a big deal. What is a big deal is that there aren't any > categories. None. And looking at the "help" for the AB it seems as if the AB > has something called "groups" instead of "categories." I don't care what > it's called, but is there any way to keep my Entourage categories when I > sync with the AB, or do I really have to go through all of them and > re-assign them to "groups"? > > And less important (I guess) where do the "custom" fields end up in AB - or > don't they? I tend to use those places for lots of things that I need > (social security numbers, airline frequent flyer numbers, that sort of > thing). Am I going to have to move all those things into "notes"? The closest analogue to Entourage's categories are groups in Address Book. They are not quite the same, you're right. Entourage categories are like tags or keywords attached to an object -- a contact card in this case. They travel with it. They are attributes of the object. Address Book groups are more like a container -- similar to a folder (albeit the non-smart kind of folder, but AB has smart groups, too, so it can be as hip as the Finder). I'm not sure, but the third-party Sync Services plugin, e2Sync, may map categories in Entourage to AB groups. You may want to check it out. I have it but haven't used it that way. (I believe it can do so for iCal calendars vs. Entourage categories, where the issue is much the same, container-vs.-attribute.) As for custom fields in Entourage, you probably don't want to store Social Security numbers in them -- especially for anyone other than yourself. (If you store SSNs in you address book, I'd rather not be one of your contacts, I'm sorry to say.) If you need to keep them, I'd create a Secure Note in a keychain (perhaps your default login keychain, but you can have as many as you want, each with their own passphrase) in Keychain Access. At least there, that sensitive data will be encrypted with 168-bit 3DES. I would also put other important numbers that you want to keep private in a keychain rather than a cleartext contact card or note in Entourage. Also, notes don't sync to/from the iPhone right now. Presumably, this could be a feature added in the future. -- Jeremy Reichman -- 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/>
