On Aug 23, 2011, at 6:45 AM, Rudolf O.Durrer wrote:
>
> Am 19.08.2011 um 18.21 schrieb Macs R We:
>
>> On Aug 19, 2011, at 3:12 AM, Rudolf O. Durrer wrote:
>>
>>> I have bought a new MBP with 10.6.8 (I've run before a last years MBP with
>>> osx 10.5.8). My adressbook template contains about 30 selfdefined fields.
>>> Until now, this fields (if not empty), showed up in the sequence they had
>>> been defined in the template.
>>> With the new snowLeopard adressbook, the fields show still in the "regular"
>>> sequence when enterin data. But after closing the ENTER mode, all fileds
>>> get randomly displayed, which is a greater annoyance (some fields hold data
>>> which should be viewed together).
>>>
>>> Is this phenomenon known to someone?
>> As I understand it, you can't "create custom fields" in Address Book, you
>> can only set "custom labels" on existing fields you aren't using. For
>> example, you can rename "Birthday" to "Shoe Size," but Address Book is still
>> going to treat and format it as if it were a birthday. That being
>> understood, I suppose it's understandable that it would format its output in
>> the order in which some programmer believes a birthday would be most helpful
>> to appear.
>> snip...snip... snip...
>
> Correct, and I have to apologize for not having been too precise. :-)
> My socalled "selfdefined" fields are indeed name fields (which can contain
> any text) with customized labels.
> BUT: as laid out, my name fields with custom labels have until now shown up
> (in 10.5.8) in the order, they had been defined in the template. They still
> do in 10.6.8, but only while being in entering mode (if that is the correct
> term?), but not in viewing mode, where date field, name fields and note
> fields show randomly anrranged
Well, let me suggest another example to ponder.
Yesterday, I was given a home phone number for someone for whom I previously
had only two work numbers. The only way to enter it in AB was to click the
plus sign on the last phone number. This placed the home number after all the
other numbers, which is not how AB likes to present things. When I clicked off
the Edit button, voila -- AB rearranged the phone numbers so that the home
number was on top after all. In this case, I strongly suspect that the
programmer chose this as desirable behavior, all the more so because I wasn't
given the option to arrange them so myself. And this was not in Lion, this was
in Snow Leopard. So I suspect what you are fighting is the same preferential
paradigm I saw here.
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