[Chandler-dev] Re: [chandler-users] Importing from Now Up To Date

[Ted Leung]

In the future I think that we should set the pattern of having the  
person who wrote the recipe adding it to the wiki.   This after all  
is the point of delivering this content via a wiki.   The more people  
we can involve in doing this kind of stuff the better.

Ted

On Aug 10, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Pieter Hartsook wrote:

> I've added Marks instructions to the http://chandlerproject.org/ 
> Projects/PreviewDesktopImportExport page. That page is fact linked  
> to from the Get Started Guide, Chapter 3 as the place to go for  
> more information on import/export.
>
> Pieter
>
> On 8/10/07, Ted Leung <twl at osafoundation.org> wrote:
> I suggest a wiki page w/ import/export recipes from various  
> clients...  Perhaps linked from the product faq
>
> On Aug 10, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:
>
>> Find a way to collect user-contributed instructions??? Set up a  
>> section on Troubleshooting page?
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> From: Mark Vermette < mdvermette at mac.com>
>>> Date: August 10, 2007 2:13:13 PM PDT
>>> To: chandler-users at osafoundation .org
>>> Subject: [chandler-users] Importing from Now Up To Date
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi everyone...
>>>
>>>
>>> I've found a somewhat convoluted but successful way of importing  
>>> appointments from Now Up To Date v 5.1.1 running on my G4  
>>> PowerBook under OS X 10.2.8. I had no problems exporting 4 years  
>>> of appointments to Chandler 0.7alpha5 running on WinXP SP2. It  
>>> takes both Palm Desktop and iCal on the Mac to make this trick  
>>> work, however.
>>>
>>>
>>> The basics are:
>>>
>>>
>>> 1.) Export from Now Up To Date using it's default Text export  
>>> format. Use the defaults in the Export dialog.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2.) Using Palm Desktop (I used v4.1) import the data file. Palm  
>>> Desktop will automatically detect the format as "Now Up To Date  
>>> 2.0 - 3.5", and display sample columns and the data that goes  
>>> into them, similar to an import into Excel. Everything matched in  
>>> my case, without any action on my part.
>>>
>>>
>>> 3.) Use Palm Desktop to re-export the file. In the export dialog,  
>>> select "Date Book" as the module, "All Datebook Items" for Items,  
>>> and "vCal" for the format.
>>>
>>>
>>> 4.) Now, open iCal (in my case, v1.5.5) and import the vCal file.  
>>> You may want to create a new iCal calendar to keep this data  
>>> separate.
>>>
>>>
>>> 5.) Export the iCal file and import it into Chadler via  
>>> directions found here: http://chandlerproject.org/pub/Product/ 
>>> GetStartedGuide/3 -Importing-ExportingData.html
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know if anyone needs this info, but I thought I'd let  
>>> people know it's possible to do, and it Just Works.
>>>
>>>
>>> --Mark
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>>
>
>
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