[sync] Problems to import vcard via syncML

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Nils <internationils at gmx.net>:

> Jan Schneider wrote:
>> Zitat von Roberto Maurizzi <roberto.maurizzi at gmail.com>:
>>> Well, after updating to 3.3.3 to test, I confirm the mapping problem is
>>> still the same.
>>>
>>> The problem is that Nokia VCARDs contains 2 extra cellphones types
>>> (home and
>>> work) and the 2 extra phones aren't in the SQL table (nor the mapping
>>> obviously).
>>>
>>> This way if you use a Nokia with Horde it will sync out of the box, but
>>> potentially eat your additional cell numbers.
>>>
>>> I'll try to see what other kind of extra fields these "fat contacts"
>>> need,
>>> and open a bug with I hope a description of the extra fields and default
>>> mappings required to solve this.
>>
>> Of course you can only synchronize to fields that exist in your Turba
>> address book. This has nothing to with missing mappings. Once you add
>> those fields, they should be mapped fine.
>
> Is there an option somewhere to let Turba just create the fields,
> possibly with a comment which device 'reauested' the creation? I would
> think that this will be one of the Eternal Standard Problems users will
> face...

No.

> The usecase that I see is that people will sync many different devices
> (cellphones, thunderbird, google contacts, etc.) with Turba, and expect
> that to be a central repository where Nothing Gets Lost (tm). If the
> child devices don't support something, they can ignore it (esp. since
> they are mostly closed source or at least difficult to modify), but
> Truba shouldn't have a problem.
>
> Cheers
> Nils
>



Jan.

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