Re: [Evolution] Contacts Synch/Read Question...

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

Jerry LeVan wrote:
> On Jul 25, 2010, at 8:00 AM, evolution-list-request gnome org wrote: 
> > On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 14:47 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 13:59 -0400, Robert Seward wrote:
> > > > I use evolution to sync with my Google Contacts and it works well.
> > > Please explain in more detail.
> > Just add a new address book in Evolution and select "Google" as the type
> > (instead of "On This Computer"). Works well, except that you can't use
> > this address book if you're not connected to the network.
> I guess you have to take well with a small grain of salt...

This isn't anyone's fault - there is no way to represent an organization 
in a vCard.  vCard's only represent contacts (people).  Various 
applications *hack* support for non-person contacts [such as 
organizations] into vCard - but if you move vCards between applications 
and services this will almost always break.

> The Mac Address Book can synch with Google Contacts. I then directed
> evolution to synch with Google Contacts.
> It worked fairly well except that all contacts that I had marked
> as 'Company' in the Mac Address Book showed up without a name
> by the time they arrived on the boxen running Evolution.

I'm a groupware developer - I'd really like a sample example of a 
"Company" vCard from Mac Address book if it is possible for you to 
export the vCard entry.

> The company name field had moved to a field that was not displayed
> as the main name.

Yes, the "main" name is FN, which is specifically the components of an 
individuals name.

> I did some pasting into the name field in Google contacts and
> that seems to have helped ( but "A B C" displays as "C A" ).