Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] phones like Nokia 6630 and Nokia N73 (and many others, likely) > allow to change at user's pleasure the names of the predifined labels: e.g., > you > can change `Home phone' into `Wife's phone', or `Business address' into `Eyes > colour'. The only synchronisation program I know that's able to save those > information and then re-write them on the phone is MS Windows' Oxygen Phone > Manager. > I'm wondering if there's something similar in the Linux world. Opensync does > not have that feature, so I had a look at bbdb. > > The information included in those modified labels may be important for some > people, and a synchronization that loses them may not be very useful for those > people. > > So, my question is: > 1) can those labels be preserved in a synchronization with bbdb? > 2) is synchronization with bbdb possible also with phones or only with palms? > 3) how does it work with palms themselves? I couldn't find any explanation at > http://syncbbdb2.sourceforge.net/ about how to do the sync.
"Aaron Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] PalmOS address and phone number fields have labels chosen > from a fixed set that can't be changed by the user. > > However, in addition to the address and phone number fields, the Palm > address book has four renameable fields, initially called Custom-1 > through Custom-4. SyncBBDB syncs these to BBDB as notes fields, using > the names from the Palm. SyncBBDB creates its own field in each BBDB > record, and among other information, this field records the mapping > between BBDB notes fields and Palm custom fields. > > I don't know anything > about syncing with Nokias--maybe someone else can help you. > > SyncBBDB only handles Palms. I can't say anything about other sync > programs. Thanks for your explanations. When I buy a Palm, I'll ask here for help about how to do the synchronization. (Meanwhile, another question: when I compile an address or telephone field, bbdb does not allow to insert a space, unless I put it in ~/.bbdb. How to work this out? E.g.: I can't write `Vodafone phone' but `Vodafone-phone'.) Cheers, bye Rodolfo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
