Re: [Bitpim-devel] Importing vCard

[Alan P. <api...@ma...>]

Cool! I'll check that out tonight too if I can.... I am on a biz trip now and the firewall is quite secure so I don't know if I'll be able to cvs up.

Anyway, here are some comments on your observations:

- the phone has a static list of 'labels' to use. The number in front is the corresponding "type" number:

0:Home
1:Home2
2:Office
3:Office2
4:Mobile
5:Mobile2
6:Pager
7:Fax
8:Fax2
9:None

I use the type number to set up the mappings off the vCard types.
ie, TEL;type=HOME gets mapped to Home, or if there's already a Home, maps to Home2. All additional HOME numbers are dropped in the current code. The same applies down the line.

Also, the phone can hold only 5 numbers/contact even though there are 9 labels. So I look for numbers in this order: Home, Office, Mobile, Home2, Office2, Mobile2, Pager, Fax, Fax2 or something like that (I listed these when I uploaded the patch).

I think it's a good idea to create a log entry anytime a number is skipped... now that you've got vCard.py in the tree I could add that... let me know if you want me to do that.

Alan

On Tuesday, April 08, 2003, at 02:20AM, Roger Binns <ro...@ro...> wrote:

>> I have uploaded the patch here:
>
>The code is now in CVS as vcard.py
>
>It certainly raises some issues.  The phone doesn't allow you
>to have multiple numbers of the same type (eg three labelled
>as 'home'), but it does allow that to be uploaded.  I haven't
>figured out why yet.  There is also a 'none' type.  I'm thinking
>that the best interface will be one that gives you an import
>report afterwards.
>
>I also need to abstract out the phone specific stuff, and put
>field truncation into the phone upload/download code.
>
>Roger
>
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