I just imported data from my Palm Desktop to Entourage 2004.
An issue presented itself on the address book imports.
All of my Palm labled work addresses and phone/email
address are now labled "home" in Entourage.
I dread the task of editing over 2000 entries, is there
anything that can be done to automate this task?
Paul,
There is a conduit setting that tells Entourage the default address type to
assign to a new address that is being synced in. Go into HotSync Manager,
double-click the Entoruage conduit, click Settings next to the Address Book
portion, and follow your nose. Note that there is a script at
macscripter.net that automatically swap home and work addresses. I forget
the name (I renamed mine), but here is the code:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theItems to selection
repeat with i in the theItems
if class of i is contact then
set StartAddress to the (home address of i)
set DestinationAddress to the (business address of i)
set the home address of i to DestinationAddress
set the business address of i to StartAddress
end if
end repeat
end tell
You need to be careful here, though, because Entourage handles two
addresses, but the conduit only handles one. Thus, even if you have a newer
Palm with the new Contacts app (which also handles two addresses), you can't
maintain *and* sync two addresses per contact. If you go swapping them from
Home to Work, it may still try to sync the home addresses, and overwrite
what's on your Palm with a blank address. I went through this last night
but, after playing around with it, I was able to minimize my address loss,
then reinput the few that were gone (maybe 15-20 out of 375).
Make sure you have everything synced up to Palm Desktop so you can just swap
conduits and overwrite the handheld from Palm Desktop if things go awry.
Good luck!
John
