Am Montag 29 März 2010 11:38:39 schrieb Patrick Ohly:
> On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 10:11 +0100, Christoph Kaulich wrote:
> > I am trying to use syncevolution together with egroupware 1.6.003.
> > 
> > Syncing calendar and todos is working fine, but the vcards does not
> > contain a UID.
> > 
> > I am using the file backend to use the data in Kontact, so I really need
> > the UID in there. I I look inthe debug messages from egroupware the
> > cards contain UID's and syncing them to Kontact via groupdav, they also
> > contain UID's,. Is there anything I can do in syncevolution about that?
> 
> UIDs in vCard are not guaranteed to be globally unique, in contrast to
> UID in iCalendar 2.0. Therefore it is not something which is typically
> useful to synchronize across apps, and thus not done in SyncEvolution.
> 
> It could be added, though, by updating the
> datatypes/00vcard-fieldlist.xml and 01vcard-profile.xml files.
> 
> But are you sure that eGroupware and Kontact will work if the UID is
> just getting copied across without checking for conflicts? I don't know
> how they assign the UIDs. If it is something simple, like a running
> count, then you could end up with UID=1000 assigned to a new contact in
> Kontact and the same UID=1000 assigned toa different new contact in
> eGroupware.
> 
> Speaking of eGroupware, others have had problems getting it to
> synchronize. See mailing list and
> http://bugzilla.moblin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5631
> 
> You don't have any problems except for the lack of UIDs?

I can't see any problems in egroupware, using the latest 1.6.003 version 
though I haven't tested very much, but the synchronisation ends without error.

Where do I find the mentioned datatypes files, I have syncevolution 0.9.2 from 
the Fedora repo.

Christoph

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