dysong3 Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 Has anybody already worked on a means of exporting data from FMPro files so that it is easily imported into applications using vCards such as apple's Address Book ? If so I would be interested in seeing how it's done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 This would be ideal for XML export. Unfortunately that's as much as I know about XML Export! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjaeger Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 there is an xml example in the XSLT library at http://www.filemaker.com/xml/ However, it should be easy enough to look at the specs or a sample vcard file, then make a concenated field with the info ("cn:" & name & ....). The advantage of the XML solution is that it also gets foreign charsets & umlauts right. But, if you are just using it for address book, there are some AppleScripts for importing Adresses from Outlook Expres or tab delimited files in your script menu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrySalem Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 Chrisitan, thanks for the pointer to the XML vcard export! it was really helpfull. Does anyone have a good shell to do the same in reverse? How do I import a vcard? TIA Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dysong3 Posted May 16, 2003 Author Share Posted May 16, 2003 Yes thanks also for the pointer on XML. I even found a style sheet template for exporting data that can then be imported into address book. The only problem is it doesn't include a field for fax numbers and my only reason for wanting to do this it that Faxstf uses the address book for sending faxes. So if anyone can tell just how to include a fax field in this XML template I will be thrilled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dysong3 Posted May 19, 2003 Author Share Posted May 19, 2003 I am answering my own question, but I managed to find a little utility that does exactly what I need it to do. It can be found at the following address http://www.carbon6dev.com/software/ It converts vCards to and from several formats including Filemaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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