No worries, I wasn't optimistic about this being possible but I just
thought I'd ask.
Any thoughts on my other questions? Here:-
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage/brow
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1/ The E conduit correctly syncs the default address for each contact
onto the Palm, but for some reason always labels this address 'work'
even when the default is the contact's HOME address. Yes, I can go
through my Palm Contacts database and alter the addresses manually, but
why should I have to? Why doesn't the conduit correctly label the
default address? And anyway, won't the addresses be set back to 'work'
the next time I sync over from Entourage?
I am aware that there is an option to set 'home' or 'work' as the
default in the conduit settings, but this only seems to apply when
syncing from the Palm to Entourage, not the other way round as in my
case. And anyway, why does this have to be all or nothing - why can't
contact addressed be labelled 'work' or 'home' on an individual basis?
You can set each individual contact (in entourage) to sync to either Home or
Work.
Be careful. There is a long standing data loss bug here, if you have the
default setting to 'home':
1. Enter the contact details including an address into the HandHeld device.
2. Sync the device to Entourage: the address gets posted to the 'home
address' field in Entourage in accordance with the conduit address
preference. However, Entourage's 'Default Postal Address' flag remains set
at it's default setting of 'Work'.
3. Sync a second time: Entourage syncs the contact's blank work address
back to the handheld, because it still has it's 'Default Postal Address' set
to 'work'. This effectively erases the address in the handheld, but it is
still in Entourage's 'Home Address' fields.
4. Sync a third time: Now, the Handheld contact has changed during the last
sync, so the contact is synced again. This time the now blank address is
synced back to Entourage's 'Home Address' field, effectively erasing the
data that was in there.
You have now lost the address in both Entourage and The Handheld.
There are two possible work-rounds:
A) Leave the Conduit set to default postal address being 'Work' -
everything will be preserved, but you will have to manually swap the
addresses in entourage to 'Home' after syncing - no need to worry now, the
correct flag will be set in entourage when you do this, so there will be no
more data loss (see below for scripts to ease this swapping)
B) Set the Default address to 'Home;' in the conduit, as you have it now,
but after each sync run one of the scripts posted below. These can detect
any mis-synced contacts and open them for you to manually correct the
'Default Postal Address' or swap the addresses over, or can automatically
reset the flag without many other intervention from you.
Now you know all this, PLEASE take the time to let Microsoft know that you
want this bug squashed - it's been this way ever since the first conduit was
shipped. You can send feedback directly to the development team through the
'Send Feedback' link in the Help menu.
The Scripts:
-- This script will open every contact which has a home address, but no work
address if the flag is mis-set:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage" to open (every contact whose business
address is {street address:"", city:"", state:"", zip:"", country:""} and
home address is not {street address:"", city:"", state:"", zip:"",
country:""} and default postal address is not home)
(That script should be all on one line)
-- This script will swap Home & Work addresses for the open contact
(* Swap Home & work addresses v1.0.0
Barry Wainwright 12th August 2003
*)
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
if class of (get displayed feature of window 1) is contact then
-- a contact window is open
set contactList to {displayed feature of window 1}
else if class of (get displayed feature of window 1) is address book
then
-- address book is open
set contactList to selection
end if
if contactList is {} then
beep
else
repeat with aContact in contactList
tell aContact
copy home address to temp
copy (get business address) to home address
copy temp to business address
end tell
end repeat
end if
end tell
