[turba] additional contact fields and activesync

[Simon Brereton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: turba-bounces at lists.horde.org [mailto:turba-
> bounces at lists.horde.org] On Behalf Of Michael Rubinsky
> Quoting Simon Brereton <simon.brereton at dada.net>:
<SNIP>
> > Stellar work Michael - thanks!
> >
> > I have one more request - which probably belongs on the sync list
> (if
> > at all, I'm sure it's a client issue and that it shouldn't be the
> job
> > of the server to fix it, but I think I have more chance of a server
> > fix), so let me know if I should make a feature request somewhere..
> >
> > Essentially, I store all my contact numbers in the +1/+49/etc
> format.
> > Android, for reasons known only to itself likes to interpret only
> the
> > US numbers and add dashes (so that +1347xxxxxxx on the server
> becomes
> > +1-347-xxx-xxxx on the phone.  Then when the phone tries to do
> another
> > sync it's duplicating the contacts in Turba.  I could just let it
> and
> > delete all the contacts with the old format but this is untidy
> since
> > numbers from other countries remain
> > +49172xxxxxxx or +3462xxxxxx etc.  Would it be possible to have
> > Turba (I guess) or Sync recognise that +1-347-xxx-xxxx is the same
> as
> > 1347xxxxxxx and not duplicate the contact?
> 
> Contacts are identified by ActiveSync using the contact UID, not by
> the phone number. I just tried this locally, and I'm not seeing this
> behavior. I added a new contact in Turba with a phone number of
> +13471234567. It was synched to Android, with the dashes added, but
> was not duplicated in any way on the server or client.

I confess I haven't been able to test it with H4/Turba3 yet.  I should have mentioned that I was using the Funambol client - sorry! Connecting directly to rpc.php

Simon