[turba] Extra attributes in vCard

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Luca Bertoncello <lucabert at lucabert.de>:

> Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>
> Hello Jan,
>
>>> Is it not possible to reserve "a place" in the vCard in Turba for  
>>> "other attributes" coming from devices?
>>
>> Not at the moment. This makes sense in the long term, but probably  
>> won't work as you'd expect either. This would be necessary to allow  
>> client to sync arbitrary fields with Turba, without losing them.  
>> But you still won't be able to edit or otherwise use them in Turba.  
>> For that you still need to know the semantics of this field, i.e.  
>> it needs to be added to the backend and mapped in the synchronizer.
>
> Well, in Horde it should for me enough if I can use the E-Mails, but  
> I __NEED__ to have the other fields available for other devices...
>
>>> If it is not possible, I'm thinking about using other DAV-Server  
>>> and try to synchronize the addresses from the DAV-Server to Turba...
>>> Has someone tried to do that?
>>
>> That would require Turba to be able to act as a CardDAV client,  
>> which is still on the todo list.
>
> Do you have any idea, when this really useful feature is planned?

No, and given our limited resources, this is doubtfully going to  
happen without being sponsored.

> Alterative: is it possible to synchronize the internal DB with the  
> DAV-Server per Cronjob or do I need to write an own program doing  
> that?

The latter.

-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
https://www.horde.org/