Re: [Evolution] Birthday in contacts

[Jürgen Meurer <meurer bad-gmbh de>]

Am Fre, 2001-09-28 um 23.29 schrieb JP Rosevear:
> On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 16:35, Dan Berger wrote:
> > Seems to me that the "right" thing to do is build an interface that
> > allows the user to specify how to map fields from Evo<->Pilot.
> >
> > 'Course this would certainly be a post-1.0 sort of feature.
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 03:14:24PM -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 02:49, Jürgen Meurer wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > in contacts I can insert the birthday of a person.
> > > > Can anybody tell me if this field is synchronized with the pilot ?
> > > > I cant find this field anywhere in my pilot so it thems that this
> > > > information is lost.
> > > > Are there any other fields in the contacts that where not synchronized
> > > > with the pilot an is there a chance to do this ?
> > >
> > > This is part of a more general problem I'm having, the fact that the
> > > addressbook and pilot fields do not always match. Witness the custom
> > > fields on the pilot and things like birthday on the palm.  I'm thinking
> > > about exactly what to do here.
>
> So, I checked around, basically windows apps don't sync this
> information, they just skip over and don't overwrite it when syncing
> (exception being the palm desktop software which has exactly the right
> fields).  We were already doing this for desktop fields but we were
> overwriting the category and custom fields (addressbook) on the pilot.
> I fixed this.  The only way that info like the birthday will go missing
> completely is if you delete it on the desktop and some action on the
> pilot causes it to be put back, but then you have to ask yourself - how
> important is deleted info? :-)
I think I don't understand exactly what you mean with "The only way that
info like the birthday will go missing completely is if you delete
it..."
If I type in a birthday in the contacts should I have this information
anywhere on my pilot (in user defind fields)?

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