Filemaker and Address.app

[GrantSymon]

Hi,

with Apple pushing their new sync technologies and the proposed advantages of a central/unified Address.app, I was wondering if this is something that FM can, or may be soon, able to take advantage of.

I'd very very very much like to be able to draw certain data from a System wide source for all my needs. It seems to me that this 'Nirvana' is getting very close with Mac OS X Jaguar, iSync, Address.app etc, but it also seems to me that there might remain a major hurdle for those, like myself, who need to maintain databases of contact/billing etc. info, in an app like FM.

Anyone any ideas/thoughts on this?

Grant

[Kurt Knippel]

The main issue here is that Apple's sync technology is based upon the user, not the enterprise. While what you are referring to is really an enterprise issue. (I use enterprise very loosely here, just to refer the a company as a whole). Apple's sync is to keep a user's PDA, e-mail, and other digital devices in sync with each other.

[falkaholic]

You could get fancy with AppleScript...

Run a script that sends events over the network (if needed).

I would be a good idea to start wyning to Apple (since Apple owns FMI) to start makeing the iApps to work better with FM.

[Redbeard]

I have managed to get a script to export FMPro database info into Vcard format.

I would really like to find a way to go the opposite way. To get VCard info imported into FMPro.

Has anyone figured out a way to do that?

John

[jsteinborn]

Redbeard,

Where or how can i find a script to export FMPro data into vCard format?

[kennedy]

Yeah, this is on my todo list...

I would expect my enterprise contacts list to remain in FMP... along with all the other info that we track on them. But, I'd like to enable any of my employees to download that contact list into their Palm as a separate category in their Address book. And once there, it would also be in Address.app via iSync.

There's no doubt this is possible. The big question is whether iSync will actually make this easy.

It would be super-cool if Apple provided an FMP interface for each iApp such that you can easily setup databases in FMP that can drive/feed the iApps, leveraging that functionality. So, for example, if you are building a CD database, you could easily tie into iTunes to play them... or retrieve CDDB info; if you are building a database with photos, you could easily tie into iPhoto as the underlying database for the photos; if you are building a database with address info, you can tie into Address and iSync; if you are building a user group database, you can tie into iChat; and so on.

[Aussie John]

http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Mail_Scripts.html#Download

for exporting addressbook contacts.

with another script in filemaker should be able to do with one click.

with a hack of the script shouljd be able to bypass all the options for particular situations.

If any one is good at that maybe they could try and report

[Aussie John]

Does anyone know a script that exports vcards form filemaker