Comments on: Address Book: Picked Last for Kickball

By: His_wife22

His_wife22 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:13:29 +0000

And I am not a rarity, it was common. ,

By: zukeeper

zukeeper — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:05:27 +0000

I love AB too. Really, I do.
The main irritant however, is it’s inability to make template changes apply to existing entries. I’m always tweaking the template, adding additional custom fields. I’d love to have the changes I make to the template be available to existing contacts. For some reason, they only seem to show up when I’m making a new entry. This drives me nuts. for example, I’ve added a Flickr url field last week. Today, my friend Bob shared his Flickr site with me, and I’d like to add that to his AB entry. However, when I’m in edit mode, the Flickr field won’t show up. Seems I only have one chance to have it available, and if that field is left blank, you have to manually enter it as a custom field when you want to edit the contact later. This needs a fix. Or is there one? Anyone?

By: Matthew Cornell

Matthew Cornell — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:02:54 +0000

Thanks for the post. I'm a new mac user, and I find Address Book frustratingly close to the usable/unusable line. I ranted a bit about it here. Also, I wish the Quicksilver plugin for AB supported creating a new contact based on text. Auto-recognition of emails, addresses, and phone numbers (like what the new Mail.app tries to do) would be *awesome*. Thanks for the post.

By: Sylvester

Sylvester — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:44:35 +0000

I haven’t tried this but there apparently is a way to see Google Contacts in AB. It’s a one way deal though, you can’t edit them. The tip is at http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=200703080908446&query=google%2Bcontacts

By: Vladimir Campos

Vladimir Campos — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:29:21 +0000

I love AB, but am using it less and less because I can’t sync it to Google Contacts. :(

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:05:34 +0000

I just got a Motorola Razr and am extremely dissappointed that it doesn’t sync with address book. I had a Nokia and it worked great. I loved being able to send SMS messages through my phone. Apparently Motorola is pisses about the whole iPhone thing. That and the fact that Apple switched to Intel chips. Does anyone know of a plugin or hack?

By: Sylvester

Sylvester — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:08:09 +0000

Jay (#47) I think I have successfully modified part of my Birthday Greeting project to send contact information via email. If you will email me I can send a sample of the output to see if it meets your needs

slydude at gmail.com

By: Sylvester

Sylvester — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:55:31 +0000

I was cruising the web looking for more AB actions for Automator when I stumbled on this page. Imagine my surprise to discover my Birthday Greetings article mentioned. The more I use AB the more I like it.

Now what can I think of next?

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 10 May 2007 00:04:53 +0000

I saved my address data file on an external drive. I’m trying to retrieve the data from another computer but can’t seem to get the data into that computer’s address book. How do I do this??

By: Jim Bates

Jim Bates — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:36:15 +0000

Greetings:

I am looking for some way to unlock custom fields in Apple’s Address Book. Since you’re Address Book LDAP is so popular, I figured you’re familiar with programming, or changing, AB.

I know that Address Book, or at least Sync Services, keeps track of Custom Fields, because they appear in other apps.

I know Apple has Custom fields listed in their Contacts Schema (http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SyncServicesSchemaRef/Articles/Contacts.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001541-209998).

But in Address Book>Preferences>Template>there is no “Custom” Field, not even grayed out.

Address Book’s existing Relationship fields just won’t cut it.

Who can help me get Address Book to show the existing Custom fields that are already there, but hidden?

Thanks,

Jim