[sync] Successful sync with Nokia phone

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von David <lists at edeca.net>:

> Jan Schneider wrote:
>> Zitat von David <lists at edeca.net>:
>>> Is this a problem with the SyncML format or could Horde manage it?  If
>>> needed, I'll look at what the phone is sending to Horde.
>>
>> I guess the anniversaries are sent as events, while anniversaries in
>> Horde Groupware are contact properties. Thus the behavior is correct,
>> they are added as recurring events to the Horde calendar.
>> It should still be possible to synchronize them to the address book,
>> but we don't have anniversaries as contact properties by default. You
>> have to add them to the database and turba/config/sources.php.
>
> I see that my contacts have "birthday" for those I added birthdays to.
> This is great, I only added "anniversaries" in the calendar because the
> Nokia (6120 Classic) doesn't show the contact properties on the
> calendar.  That's a Nokia problem, so I'll stick with contact properties
> for birthdays.
>
> I do notice though that I can add other sorts of properties to a contact
> on the Nokia phone.  I don't plan on using many of these, but possibly
> "SIP" and "Anniversary" (a date) would be useful (the second was erased
> for all of my contacts ;)
>
> Perhaps I am asking for things that are Nokia additions that aren't
> compatible with SymcML.. I'm unsure as I don't know which document to check.

SyncML is only a transport protocol. The actual data is handled on the  
application level, i.e. the phone, and the horde applications.

> Also, why does Turba require a last name?  Some of my contacts only had
> a first name, so now they are "John John" where the second name was
> automatically added..

I think this was an issue that has been fixed since the last Turba RC.

Jan.

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