evolution OOo & addresses
David Malcolm
dmalcolm at redhat.com
Thu Jun 23 23:13:15 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 11:03 +1200, MR wrote:
> Hi All,
> Running:
> OOo 1.1.2
> Evo 2.0.4
> fc3
>
> I have a spread sheet of addresses (tab deliminated) I want to load into
> the evo/ooo address database. Evo provides for import of only ldif or
> vcf files; when I open the database in OOo it seems to be locked for
> editing. OOo seemed to offer the best way to manipulate/import these
> addresses, but it seems locked and wont edit. Any ideas?
vcf is a relatively simple text-based format, so at worst, it wouldn't
be hard to code something up that reads your tab delimited file and
converts it to vcf (does your version of OOo have a scripting language?)
I'm not volunteering though ;-)
>
> Also, under menu "Tools -> Data Sources... -> Addresses -> [Data source
> URL] ... -> Data Source" there are options to select different address
> book types. I use Mozilla Thunderbird so it would be good to access
> this from OOo, but changing between the sources to Mozilla seems to have
> no effect on the Tables available under the Addresses database. Is
> there any explanation/howto about how this is meant to work (or not?)
> anywhere? (The OOo help is meaningless...)
>
> Thanks,
> Morgan.
>
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