Sync or Import/Export w/Address Books
sims
sims at ezpzapps.com
Tue Mar 30 10:50:51 EST 2004
>I'm looking for information to import and export to both Apple's and
>Microsoft's Address Books from a Rev app under development. Ideally,
>I would like to provide a sync mechanism such as iSync on the Mac
>but that is optional at this point.
>
>The vCard export from Apple's Address Book looks fairly
>straightforward once I get all of the key choices and the same for
>LDIF. However, I don't have any information regarding programming
>with iSync.
Here is an applescript that might be a start if you go that route.
HTH
sims
tell application "Finder" to make file at desktop with properties
{name:"export.txt"}
set exportFile to (((path to desktop) as string) & "export.txt") as alias
tell application "Address Book"
set addressBookAsList to every person
open for access exportFile with write permission
repeat with i from 1 to count of addressBookAsList
set theName to (name of item i of addressBookAsList)
set theBirthDate to (birth date of item i of
addressBookAsList) as string
set eAddress to {value of first email of item i of
addressBookAsList}
write (theName & tab & theBirthDate & tab & eAddress
& return) as string starting at eof to exportFile
end repeat
close access exportFile
quit application "Address Book"
end tell
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