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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    abbrowser conduit in usable state
From:       Gregory Stern <stern () enews ! nrl ! navy ! mil>
Date:       2001-04-30 21:05:29
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It appears that the KPIlot abbrowser conduit is in a usable state.  Users 
should now be able to sync their palm pilot to the KDE Address Book via the 
Abbrowser application.  As with any KPIlot conduit, you have to go into the 
KPilot conduit setup page and drag the KDE Address Conduit into the working 
conduits.

If you're paranoid (as you probably should be), backup all of your data 
first.  To backup your palm pilot, do a sync before using my conduit.  You 
can restore your conduit by using KPilot's restore function.

To backup your kde address book, cd to $(HOME)/.kde/share/apps/kab and copy 
your addressbook.kab to a backup file (not .bak, since that's already used by 
abbrowser).  You can restore your address book by simply copying your backup 
file over the hosed file.

You might want to go into the setup page for the conduit.  The possible and 
key features of the conduit are:

  - Smartly merges the address contacts from you palm pilot to your record 
book.  Currently, it matches on last, first name or company.  If the records 
can be merged without conflict, the merged address record will exist on both 
the palm pilot and the kab db.
  - Allows for multiple deconfliction strategies if their is a conflict 
merging.
  - Allows the user to specify what the the "Other" phone field is mapped to.
  - Allows the user to specify if the address and fax fields defined in the 
palm pilot are for home or business.

Feature to come
   - Deconfliction GUI => the user will be able to choose which fields are 
correct if an address conflict.

I am looking forward to getting feedback on bugs and general comments.  Have 
fun!

-- 
- Greg Stern
   Naval Research Lab
   202-404-7616

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