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juliantoler at googlemail

Jan 9, 2008, 3:36 AM

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Contacts data

Hi
I have been trying to import all my contacts into the standard contacts
application and have nearly sorted it out, although my most recent import
has resulted in one field out of step (emails in the telephone field doh!)
Can someone point me to the location of the data file for this application
so I can (hopefully) delete all entries in one go rather than one by one in
Contacts (rather tedious).

Also - are there any extended specifications for this application? For
example - how do imported field mapping work (it can handle multiple email
addresses and telephone numbers, but no logic saying which is the home or
work telephone number or email etc.)

Is there a *best* import solution? From vCard, Google contacts, Outlook or
maybe I can create a suitable data file directly (I am dumping my MySQL
database into a csv file at the moment so it is easy to generate customised
text files).
Cheers
Julian

ho at holsson

Jan 9, 2008, 4:02 AM

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Re: Contacts data [In reply to]

I was just looking at importing contacts last night, and I discovered
that (at least on the N810) you can select multiple contacts in one go
using the stylus, just drag it over them, and then delete them all.

Kind regards,
Hans

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 11:36:01 +0000, "Julian Toler"
<juliantoler [at] googlemail> said:
> Hi
> I have been trying to import all my contacts into the standard contacts
> application and have nearly sorted it out, although my most recent import
> has resulted in one field out of step (emails in the telephone field
> doh!)
> Can someone point me to the location of the data file for this
> application
> so I can (hopefully) delete all entries in one go rather than one by one
> in
> Contacts (rather tedious).
>
> Also - are there any extended specifications for this application? For
> example - how do imported field mapping work (it can handle multiple
> email
> addresses and telephone numbers, but no logic saying which is the home or
> work telephone number or email etc.)
>
> Is there a *best* import solution? From vCard, Google contacts, Outlook
> or
> maybe I can create a suitable data file directly (I am dumping my MySQL
> database into a csv file at the moment so it is easy to generate
> customised
> text files).
> Cheers
> Julian
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nick-maemousers at nickpiper

Jan 9, 2008, 4:04 AM

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Re: Contacts data [In reply to]

On Wed, 09 Jan 2008, Julian Toler wrote:

> I have been trying to import all my contacts into the standard contacts
> application and have nearly sorted it out, although my most recent import
> has resulted in one field out of step (emails in the telephone field doh!)
> Can someone point me to the location of the data file for this application
> so I can (hopefully) delete all entries in one go rather than one by one in
> Contacts (rather tedious).

On My N800 (OS2007) /home/user/.osso-abook/db

> Also - are there any extended specifications for this application? For
> example - how do imported field mapping work (it can handle multiple email
> addresses and telephone numbers, but no logic saying which is the home or
> work telephone number or email etc.)
>
> Is there a *best* import solution? From vCard, Google contacts, Outlook or
> maybe I can create a suitable data file directly (I am dumping my MySQL
> database into a csv file at the moment so it is easy to generate customised
> text files).
> Cheers
> Julian

When playing with the OS2008 SDK, I saw that it uses (embedded)
Evolution Data Server, so the backing store can actually hold quite a
lot of information about each contact. You could possibly populate it using Python 2.5:

import evolution.ebook
book = evolution.ebook.open_addressbook("default")
new_contact = evolution.ebook.EContact()
new_contact.props.full_name = "John Smith"
new_contact.props.email_1 = "john [at] example"
book.add_contact(new_contact)

regards,

Nick
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