Re: Follow-up: Now Contact 4.2.x to Address Book 3.0.x utility
Re: Follow-up: Now Contact 4.2.x to Address Book 3.0.x utility
- Subject: Re: Follow-up: Now Contact 4.2.x to Address Book 3.0.x utility
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:18:12 -0700
I've already reported the same bug here and to bugreporter previously. That
bug will prevent any apps using the same access FAXstf does - which so far
consists of all sorts of fax apps plus iSync - from syncing correctly. It
means that NO ONE should script Address Book if you ever want these other
apps to access it, until the bug is fixed. It makes Address Book effectively
unscriptable.
There's a very clunky workaround of assigning a phone number of " " to all 8
phone numbers which are not otherwise used, always in the same order. But
then its very easy when editing in the UI to mess up the order again, so I
would not recommend the workaround.
Thanks for conforming and I'm glad that a big app like FAXstf has discovered
the AS bug and reported it.
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Paul Berkowitz
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From: email@hidden
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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:06:50 EDT
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To: email@hidden
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Subject: Follow-up: Now Contact 4.2.x to Address Book 3.0.x utility
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For the record, I was just informed by FaxSTF's staff that the NowContact to
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Apple Address Book utility I posted earlier and which some of you downloaded
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will not work for purposes of FaxSTF. The basis and the letter is as follows:
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Marc:
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I finally took a look at your utility this morning. Having written one
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myself for Jaguar I can appreciate how much work went into it. Unfortunately,
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we can not endorse the use of this utility where FAXstf X is concerned
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because your utility has the same limitation that a similar utility that I
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have written also has due to an Apple bug. The Jag Address Book has a bug
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that causes telephone numbers of any type create by apple events to be tagged
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incorrectly in the vCard data of the Address Book. Specifically, a correctly
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tagged and labeled fax number should look like "TEL;type=FAX:816-554-9397"; in
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the vCard. Currently the Address Book will format any number create via
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apple events as "TEL:(816) 554-9397" or "TEL;type=pref:403 274 8004" - even
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though the number has the correct label in the Address Book GUI. You can
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verify this by dragging a vCard created by your utility to the desktop and
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then opening it in TextEdit. The end result is that a fax can not be
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addressed with any such vCard.
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The reason that this is a problem for us is that our printer driver looks
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specifically for the "FAX" tag in the vCard data to determine which number
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within the vCard is a fax number. This would not be a problem for any
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software that doesn't need to be so critical of the tagged info.
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I have reported this problem to Apple via Developer Technical Services and
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they have confirmed that it is a bug in the Address Book. When they fix it
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I will inform you of the fix and share any example code that they send me.
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Thanks again for sending this utility to us. If you have any others, feel
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free to email them to me.
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Chad Krause
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Quality Assurance Supervisor (FaxSTF)
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Smith Micro Software, Inc. www.smithmicro.com/mac
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My apologies to any list user who got frustrated as a result. Please note
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that the utility still works in the sense that it does indeed transfer the
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contacts to the address book.
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Sincerely Yours,
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=-= Marc Glasgow
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