[Design] Graphically editing contact's multi-value fields

Jeffrey Harris jeffrey at osafoundation.org
Wed Jul 19 17:55:02 PDT 2006


Hi Mimi,

>> 1b. Importing contacts from CSV and or TXT files
>>  + with OR without header row
>>  + with confirm dialog to ensure fields match up
> 
> Is this to facilitate greater interoperability with contacts managers 
> that don't support vCard, but will export to a csv, txt file? (What 
> clients don't support vCard?)
> 
> Or is this to accommodate users who manage their contacts in a 
> spreadsheet or text file?
> 
> Or BOTH?

Sadly, Thunderbird only exports to LDIF or CSV.  Outlook 2003 doesn't 
want to export the full address book to vCard, although I may not have 
looked hard enough. Outlook Express will only export one contact at a 
time to vCard.

They all support CSV.

Sincerely,
Jeffrey


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