[turba] Exporting Lists ...

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Jan Schneider wrote:

> Zitat von "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy at hub.org>:
>
> > On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Jan Schneider wrote:
> >
> > > Zitat von "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy at hub.org>:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I just created a list consisting of two ppl in my address book ...
> > when I
> > > > export, it comes out as:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "internal",,,,,,,,,,,,,,
> > > >
> > > > but there is nothing to list those who is part of that, so you can't
> > > > export and then re-import a list ... is there something I'm missing?
> > >
> > > A list is actually a normal contact that is linked to several other
> > > contacts. Thus you can add the information to it that you can add to
> > each
> > > "normal" contact. I don't know if this really makes sense but that's
> > the
> > > reason.
> >
> > Not sure if it does either ... I took a look at the schema, and a list
> > has
> > object_members set to the object_id's of each of the members of the list
> > ... and object_type set to Group instead of Object ...
>
> Correct.
>
> > Now, not sure what the Export function does, but it doesn't appear to
> > pull
> > out the Group objects, only the Object objects ... ?
>
> No. Otherwise you wouldn't get the line in the export that you mentioned
> above.

D'oh, good point ...

> > And since object_id
> > isn't pull'd out in the export, to export the Lists, you'd have to
> > translate object_members -> object_name ...
>
> Sorry, I lost you here.

Create two addresses in yoru address book, create a simple list that
includes both of those addresses .. then export your address book and
re-import it on a different machine ... your list is created, but has no
members ...