Re: [Evolution] contacts-database format

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Well ideally oo could just use a plugin which talked to evolutions
addressbook directly.

Thank heavens we all use a common component model eh?

On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 07:23, Stephen Witkop wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 11:33, Peter Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 00:41, c.c. wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > i want to use it with openoffice as it's addressbook. i tried but it
> > > does not work.
> > >
> > > christoph
> >
> > The easiest way to do this would be to import the OO addressbook into
> > evolution. The addressbooks wouldn't be synchronized, but that would be
> > very difficult to do correctly. You might try writing an Evolution
> > importer and importing your addressbook -- I don't know how feasible
> > this is. It depends on the format that OO uses to store its addressbook.
> > You might try filing a bug report and supplying a sample OO addressbook
> > for us to work from, but unfortunately I doubt this would be a high
> > priority at the moment.
>
> I believe OO allows you to point itself at a dBase file as a data source
> either as your address book or whatever you want to call it, so it would
> be nice if Evolution could export it's address book in a db format that
> OO could read. Even if they are not synchronized it would still usable.
>  
> I use Staroffice 5.2 now for all my business stuff (Invoices, Proposals,
> Purchase Orders etc.) and am in the process of moving to OO. All these
> docs pull their fields from the address book which is great but it's a
> pain to maintain both.
>
> -- 
> Stephen
>
>
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