Well ideally oo could just use a plugin which talked to evolutions addressbook directly.
Thank heavens we all use a common component model eh? On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 07:23, Stephen Witkop wrote: > On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 11:33, Peter Williams wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 00:41, c.c. wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > i want to use it with openoffice as it's addressbook. i tried but it > > > does not work. > > > > > > christoph > > > > > > > The easiest way to do this would be to import the OO addressbook into > > evolution. The addressbooks wouldn't be synchronized, but that would be > > very difficult to do correctly. You might try writing an Evolution > > importer and importing your addressbook -- I don't know how feasible > > this is. It depends on the format that OO uses to store its addressbook. > > You might try filing a bug report and supplying a sample OO addressbook > > for us to work from, but unfortunately I doubt this would be a high > > priority at the moment. > > > > I believe OO allows you to point itself at a dBase file as a data source > either as your address book or whatever you want to call it, so it would > be nice if Evolution could export it's address book in a db format that > OO could read. Even if they are not synchronized it would still usable. > > I use Staroffice 5.2 now for all my business stuff (Invoices, Proposals, > Purchase Orders etc.) and am in the process of moving to OO. All these > docs pull their fields from the address book which is great but it's a > pain to maintain both. > > -- > Stephen > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
