[Bitpim-devel] Samsung and URL <--> alias field

Roger Binns

2005-01-09 19:31:02 UTC

Post by Vic Heintz
there is ambiguity. If BitPim were to be the perfect application for
all people and all phones you would have to allow the user to control
these mappings where there is ambiguity.

The way it should be is that by default it does the 80 of the 80:20
rule. His later response shows he doesn't even use the field! It
may be worthwhile asking on that group you mentioned what most
people do, and make the default be that, which is likely to be what
you already do :-)

And yes, per phone control of mappings would be nice. It needs the
per phone configuration infrastructure first, which would also deal
with issues like first last vs last, first.

Post by Vic Heintz
if I had control

You do have control. Make a patch! The import stuff uses probability
to match contacts and can be tweaked. (In fact I would love it if someone
took over that code, made a nice large test suite and improved it all).

Post by Vic Heintz
I can export
vcards for them from palm desktop but the vcard import function in
bitpim is not currently recognizing entries such as
"X-Palm-Nickname:Billy" .

The version of Palm Desktop I have doesn't have that field. I am
using 4.1.0 for Windows. I even went and upgraded to 4.1.4 for Windows
and it had some extra functionality, but no nickname. The vcard from
filling in every single possible field is at the end of this mail.

Post by Vic Heintz
So in BitPim's phonebook entry editor I must
change the William Heintz Fullname entryfor each of them to their
nicknames. (I suppose now I will also have to copy the imported URL
field into the nickname field.)

Most of these difficulties stem from trying to use fields for different
purposes than they are labelled as. Since we can't change any of the
other programs, we'll have to allow some flexibility in BitPim to
do this. My intention is still that the fields as displayed in the
user interface be used exactly for what they are labelled as, but that
some amount of mapping can be done when reading/writing to the phone.

Post by Vic Heintz
PS In the vCard import the entry "X-Palm-Category1:Family" is also
ignored

There is a perfectly good 'categories' field in the vCard standard :-)
Anyway that is another field the Windows Palm Desktop doesn't generate
in the vCard so I never knew about it.

Can you export a vCard with every single field filled in?

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FN:first last
TITLE:title
ORG:company
ADR;WORK:;;work address;work city;work state;work zip;work country
ADR;HOME:;;home address;home city;home state;home zip ;home country
ADR:;;other address;other city;other state;other zip;other country
NOTE:note
BDAY:20050127
URL;WORK:website
TEL;WORK:work
TEL;HOME:home
EMAIL:email
TEL;CELL:mobile
TEL;PREF:main
TEL:other
TEL;FAX:fax
X-Palm-Custom1:custom1
X-Palm-Custom2:custom2
X-Palm-Custom3:custom3
X-Palm-Custom4:custom4
X-Palm-Custom5:custom5
X-Palm-Custom6:custom6
X-Palm-Custom7:custom7
X-Palm-Custom8:custom8
X-Palm-Custom9:custom9
X-PALM-IM;MSN:aim
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END:VCARD

Roger