#1 Birthday is lost on sync and then leads to conflict

[Felix Möller]

Thunderbird is not able to save birthdays in its addressbook as we all know. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13595

Synchronizing with vcards that have a birthday set I get a conflict on every sync.

adding:
Index: thunderbird-card.cpp
===================================================================
--- thunderbird-card.cpp (Revision 31)
+++ thunderbird-card.cpp (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -221,6 +221,10 @@
{"Content", "Notes" },
{ NULL } }
},
+ {"Birthday", {
+ {"Content", "Custom1" },
+ { NULL } }
+ },
#if 0
// file-sync (probably vcard) does not like UserDefined ...
{"UserDefined", {

makes it work for me. ;)

It would be great if the birthday could saved in the form day.month.year, which is used by the Birthday Reminder Add-on.

Otherwise syncing from file to thunderbird works like a charm, thanks for all your work!

[KaarPoSoft]

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Unfortunately, there are many other cases where there are fields missing in one end or the other when synchronizing.
I believe the right solution is to make OpenSync more intelligent, not tweak every plugin.
There is a discussion about this here:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=473C7A88.1000409%40users.sourceforge.net&forum_name=opensync-devel

[Alban Browaeys]

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But birthday is supported by vcard30 . Btw I am still thinking about the issue at stake . I ll reply on the ML as soon as I have something better to propose.

Cheers
Alban

[KaarPoSoft]

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I see this as a feature request more than a bug, so I have moved it to the appropriate list.
/Henrik