When Spanning Sync finds an unstructured name in Google Contacts (that is, a contact with just a full name, and no distinct first name, last name, etc fields), we'll parse it as a last name. However, if the contact record in Google has structured information, we'll do the right thing with it. Happily, it looks like Google Sync for iPhone uses the structured data fields available in the Contacts API.
So both Spanning Sync and Google Sync for iPhone will keep your structured names structured. The bad news is that the Gmail/Google Contacts web UI does NOT yet support structured names, so if you create or edit a contact using that UI, the structure will be lost, leaving apps like Spanning Sync to guess at the proper structure. We're very optimistic the Google Contacts team will get their app up to speed with the Contacts API soon. In the mean time, it's best to use it read only if structured names (and postal addresses) are important to you. Cheers, Charlie On Jun 29, 5:02 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > I noticed the other day that when I went to go clean out my AB (using > sync tools, sweet stuff) that all my single name contacts have been > moved from being a first name entry to a last name entry. To be honest > I'm not sure if this is on the SS side of the sync, or the GoogleSync > i have set up with my iPhone. Is there any way to find out? and if it > is on the SS side, is this somethign that can be fixed on my end? > > ---------- > Eric Boxer --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Spanning Sync" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spanningsync?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
