On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 09:44 +0200, J.L. Blom wrote:
> Des,
> Thanks for your reply. It simply doesn't. In the window (Wizard-> Adress
> data source -> Other external data source (choice: Mozilla, LDAP, other)
> -> settings I can choose from many different choices (LDAP, Mozilla,
> dBase, Adabas, JDBC, MySQL, ODBC, Oracle, Spreadsheet, Text,
> Thunderbird) but no Evolution. I have posted the same question on the OO
> user-list but till now no response.Maybe I have to post in on the
> developers list. But If there is a method to export to MySQL my problem
> is also solved. But as I don't know the format of the contacts database
> in Evolution I cannot write an exporter (e.g. to comma-delimited
> text-file) and I don't know if one exists.
> You maybe have some ore information?
I tried this later last night, using the OOo 2.0 release candidate, and
it found my Evo address book, and I was able to view addresses in
OpenOffice. I'm running Evo 2.2.1 on SuSE 9.3
Des
>
> On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 22:01 -0700, Des Dougan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 17:09 +0200, J.L. Blom wrote:
> > > Can anybody tell me why evo 2.2.3 (my current version) doesn't interface
> > > with openoffice?
> > > Is it an openoffice thing or an evolution thing (as I saw that the
> > > format of the contacts database is changed from the format of 1.4 which
> > > worked with Oo 1.1)).
> > > In the "create database" window when choosing a database format
> > > Evolution is vanished. As it is very handy (as translating the Evolution
> > > database to a MySQL table is not easy (short of retyping everything!))
> > > to get your mail addresses (for letters) from Evolution.
> > > Has anybody a clue?
> > > Joep
> > >
> >
> > OpenOffice.org 2.0 is supposed to be able to handle Evo 2.x contacts,
> > but I haven't tested it myself.
> >
> > Des
>
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