Hey TBers,
This is kind of long, sorry...
Saturday, June 16, 2001, 2:53:37 PM, you wrote:
SS>> I have tried to export TB!'s AB as vCard with a pretty old
SS>> version. PalmDesktop failed to import them:( I've never tried to
SS>> do it ever since:)
TM> Not sure where vCard came into the discussion here... All I found was
TM> ref to .csv files in the thread (not that I looked that hard <g>.
Had some time, so looked at using vCard for address book exchange.
I filled in all fields in both apps (TB v1.35, and Palm Desktop
4.0.1). Then exported to vCard from each.
Palm seemed to be able to better selectively export (in TB the export
did everything in the address book instead of just what was selected -
does anyone know if you can only export part of a TB address book?).
I exported the one address from Palm Desktop (from previous work with
Palm Desktop, I know you can export selected or all in a Category, or
all). Here is what it looked like:
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:LN;FN
FN:FN LN
TITLE:Title
ORG:Company
ADR:;;Street;City;State;Zip;Country
NOTE:Note
TEL;WORK:Work
TEL;HOME:Home
TEL;FAX:Fax
TEL:Other
EMAIL:E-Mail
X-Palm-Custom1:Custom 1
X-Palm-Custom2:Custom 2
X-Palm-Custom3:Custom 3
X-Palm-Custom4:Custom 4
END:VCARD
Here is what the export from TB Address book looked like (after I
ripped out all but the one address...):
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:Last name;First name;Middle name;Mr;Jr
FN:Display name as
UID:Nickname (Handle)
EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:E-Mail address(es)
BDAY:20010616
ORG:Company Name;Department
TITLE:Job title
TEL;WORK;VOICE:Phone
TEL;HOME;VOICE:Voice
TEL;CELL;VOICE:Car / Cellular
TEL;PAGER:Pager
TEL;WORK;FAX:Fax
TEL;HOME;FAX:Fax
ADR;WORK:;Office;Street address;City;State / Province;ZIP / Postal code;Country
LABEL;WORK;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Office=0D=0AStreet address=0D=0AC=
ity=0D=0AState / ProvinceZIP / Postal code=0D=0ACountry
ADR;HOME:;;Street address;City;State / Province;ZIP / Postal code;Country
LABEL;HOME;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Street address=0D=0ACity=0D=0ASta=
te / ProvinceZIP / Postal code=0D=0ACountry
URL:Personal Web Homepage
URL;WORK:Business Web Homepage
NOTE;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Memo=0D=0A
X-GENDER:Male
X-TEMPLATE:New Message Template
X-REPLY-TEMPLATE:Reply Message Template
X-FORWARD-TEMPLATE:Forward Message Template
REV:20010616T201859Z
END:VCARD
Note, both are "VERSION:2.1". (If you want to try importing these,
just put them in an ASCII file, and left justify all the text.)
I was able to import either file into either app (TB & Palm DT). In
TB, multiple imports resulted in only one entry. Unfortunately, in
Palm TD, each vCard import generated *another* entry (if you have a
category selected, that is where it is imported...).
The duplicate entries issue importing into the Palm DT I could
probably resolve. For example, we could export the entire AB from
both TB & Palm AB. Then compare the 2, and strip all the dups from
the "import to Palm" file. Any interest? Should I work on this? I
don't expect it would be a considerable amount of code, but I only
write in Perl which may be a little hard to distribute. If I get this
working in Perl, would anyone be interested in porting to C?
Here is the vCard export from the Palm DT of the above TB Address
entry:
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:Last name;First name
FN:First name Last name
TITLE:Job title
ORG:Company Name
ADR:;;Street address;City;State / Province;ZIP / Postal code;Country
NOTE;QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Memo=0D=0A
EMAIL:E-Mail address(es)
TEL;WORK:Phone
TEL;HOME:Voice
TEL;CELL:Car / Cellular
TEL;PAGER:Pager
END:VCARD
You can see that there is considerably less information in the Palm
address book!
Thoughts anyone?
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