[turba] Extend/Change Addressbook to Outlook Style

lst_hoe02 at kwsoft.de lst_hoe02 at kwsoft.de
Tue Jun 28 10:06:33 UTC 2011


Zitat von msc <horde at matthiasschwarz.de>:

>
> Zitat von Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>
>> Quoting msc <horde at matthiasschwarz.de>:
>>
>>> Zitat von Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>>>
>>>> Quoting msc <horde at matthiasschwarz.de>:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I use Funambol SyncML Client to sync contacts + calendar from  
>>>>> Outlook 2010 to Turba + Kronolith.
>>>>> Turba doesn't provide the same address fields as Outlook. Is it  
>>>>> possible to extend/change Turba for the missing fields? Will  
>>>>> SyncML work with this extension?
>>>>
>>>> I thought that the out of the box configuration has outlook style  
>>>> fields, but maybe I'm mistaken. Either way, you can provide  
>>>> whatever field name/mappings you want. All available mappings are  
>>>> in config/attributes.php - if what you want is not there, just  
>>>> add it. The mappings that are currently used are defined in  
>>>> config/backends.php (or config/backends.local.php if you  
>>>> customized). Just make sure that if you add a new field in turba,  
>>>> that your database (or other storage backend) knows what to do  
>>>> with it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I added a second mail address field (Mail 2) to turba. In turba  
>>> everything seems fine, second mail address is added to db. But  
>>> second mail address isn't sync to outlook. How works the sync  
>>> progress? I mean, how knows turba which field is the corresponding  
>>> field in outlook?
>>
>> We currently support EITHER of the following to sync:
>
>> A single email field in Turba (the email field) OR two email fields  
>> (the homeEmail and workEmail fields). You can't have the 'email'  
>> field with another email field. You need to use the homeEmail and  
>> workEmail fields if you want to support syncing two email fields.
>>
>
> In turba i've got only one mail field.
> I've got a german Outlook. In Outlook i don't have homeMail or  
> workMail, there are only 3 mail fields: E-Mail; E-Mail 2; E-Mail 3.  
> Also in Outlook are much more possibilities for phone number fields  
> you can use, in turba i've got "only" home, work ,mobil(cellphone)  
> ,fax and pager. If i add for example phone field home2 in turba  
> which exists in outlook, how i know which is the corresponding field  
> in turba/outlook?

There is no standard at all which fields are provided and how they are  
called. Some more discussion can be found here

http://lists.horde.org/archives/turba/Week-of-Mon-20110502/006546.html

Regards

Andreas

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