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

[Ted Leung]

Also, this page probably needs a bit of cleaning up - it's way too  
cluttered at the moment.

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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