Re: Address Book custom fields?
Re: Address Book custom fields?
- Subject: Re: Address Book custom fields?
- From: "Michael Grant" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:11:35 -0500
Thanks Paul!
I found the reference to the Address Book custom field entity in the
iSync schema reference for address book:
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SyncServicesSchemaRef/index.html>.
Custom fields are listed there as being available in Tiger and later,
so presumably they can at least be accessed through the SyncServices
framework (I don't know if that's technically considered part of Cocoa
or not), even if I have to roll my own UI for them.
It looks like I'm facing a pretty big learning curve if I want to
tackle this. I've always thought the potential benefit of having the
AB data store as a known-available central repository for contact info
is huge, but so far I've been pretty disappointed by the
implementation.
Michae
On 10/11/07, Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden> wrote:
> There's no Custom Field currently in the UI: select any contact and go to
> Contact/Add Field submenu. You won't see any Custom Field there. It may well
> be in the schema for future development and/or compatibility with other
> applications that sync to Address Book via Sync Services. But since it's not
> in the UI it will not be exposed even if you can finagle it via Cocoa
> frameworks.
>
> What does exist is something called Related Names. That is scriptable:
> 'related name' class is an element of person. That's as close as you can get
> to a custom field at present.
>
> --
> Paul Berkowitz
>
>
> > From: Michael Grant <email@hidden>
> > Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:43:38 -0500
> > To: <email@hidden>
> > Subject: Address Book custom fields?
>
> >
> Howdy scripters!
> The Address Book Contacts schema includes a Custom Field attribute,
> but it doesn't seem to be exposed in Address Book's AppleScript
> dictionary (there's a custom date class, but that's not what I'm
> looking for). Does anyone know if it's possible to add custom fields
> to AB records with AppleScript, or am I going to have to dig into the
> Cocoa frameworks?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
> --
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