Comments on: iCal and Address Book: Under Appreciated (?)

By: Rocco

Rocco — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:49:26 +0000

I am having issues printing out my tasks in “list” view. For some reason the “show URL” menu when i get info suddednly has mail info which shows up in the list view and adds to my tasks below eacj task? I had re-entered all tasks to clear them, but mailto code popped back in? I did not have auto email retrieval checked in iCal prefs. Any help??

By: Barry

Barry — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:00:07 +0000

I figured out a simple low tech solution for the company name AND person’s name problem.
Simply duplicate the person’s name as the first line
in the address field you will use to print envelopes and labels and let AddressBook print using the company name. Voila, you get both. Stupid work around, but it works, and you only have to set it up once per contact.
I hope that Apple adds increased functionality to the AddressBook and iCal in Leopard. They are great resources, just a bit underpowered.

By: Elinore

Elinore — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:06:35 +0000

I have many birthdays entered in Address Book but most of them do not show up in iCal despite enabling. There must be some bug. I just upgraded to a MacBook Pro with the latest OS.

By: Jared

Jared — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:43:40 +0000

iCal and Address Book are awsome! I don’t know how I could live without them. I look foward to the additional intergration with mail in leopard.

By: Rita

Rita — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:53:51 +0000

I have been adding birthdays to Address Book so it will add to iCal. It has worked fairly well with two exceptions. Both are September birthdays and I either entered them as August or the computer entered them as August. But, aside from that, I have tried several times to correct the error, but it REFUSES. I have tried the edit button, the minus sign next to the birthday field and even deleted the whole card. But when I typed in the info for the new card with the September birthday, the Address book CHANGED it to AUGUST again. ???????

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:39:04 +0000

Allen I tried your solution to add files to Address Book using the URL slots, but it didn’t work – I created a .rtf text document, placed it in user/documents, copied the file path with FilePathToClip CM (the one you mentioned wasn’t to be found), then pasted the file path into a URL in Address Book. Instead of booting TextEdit, it booted Safari, which said: “Safari couldn’t open the document …/user/abc.rtf because it couldn’t connect to the server “localhost” Can you give me some more advice, as I really want to lick the problem of attaching files to Address Book – I miss that from when I used to use Entourage, and I think it is a really great thing that Apple should add to Address Book. Thanks :)

By: Klaus

Klaus — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 21:33:55 +0000

I looked further into the company label issue and found some hints on the Apple Support site, in the discussion forums.
It seems this feature does NOT exist in Address Book and there is no script/hack etc that can turn this on within Address Book.

The only proposed solution are additional tools such as “Address Book Reports” (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18672) or SnailMail (http://nixanz.com/products/snailmail/README.html). I’m about to try those two and when I know more I’ll post another short report.

However, this really seems to be a missing feature in Address Book and lot of people complained on the Apple Discussion site about it. Hopefully Apple will fix this soon.

By: Lewis

Lewis — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:16:24 +0000

Yes, listen to Klaus!
There must be someone with a hack that will allow us to turn on the name & business when printing a label! Still no answer from the void. . .

By: Klaus

Klaus — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:41:29 +0000

Did some answer the question from Lewis (October 15th 2005) about the address book lable printing and the missing company name? I have the same problem and this is a real setback with Address Book. Great tool otherwise but this is a true problem. If someone knows anything, please post anything on this topics.

By: Allen

Allen — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:18:27 +0000

Ok, I just confirmed the earlier note… yes, using say “snag path” CM, you can snag file:// paths, then paste those into address book, and ical… if you leave a file off ( just use a folder), you could keep a contact related folder say in ~/documents/contactfolders/Steve/ as an example… a file://machd/../documents/contactfolders/Steve/ type url will open the folder for you in the finder… alternatively, you can use any file whose extension the system understands already (knows which helper apps to use).

Another tip: I place my mission statement into the info section of the iCal calendar. I have each calendar separated by my “roles” vis-a-vis Stephen Covey… and each role has a mission statement that helps me to stay on task while working on my scheduling etc. Quick way to review the statement before the day begins as well…

To get more space, use option-enters to get line breaks, which will help separate out items in the calendar info section…