Comments on: Thunderbird Google Postal Address sync - Part Two

By: leni

leni — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:24:36 +0000

matze - the schema file doesn’t exist. That’s pretty normal - see wikipedia. The reason it’s there is to distinguish format versions if/when Thunderbird’s postal address fields change.

A new theme is on the todo list

By: matze

matze — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:57:12 +0000

I tried to use the XML format for postal adress and coudn’t find the schema file for the given ULR: http://schemas.zindus.com/sync/2008. Maybe it’s just a broken link.

By the way: it is just a horrible theme.

By: fnog

fnog — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:04:50 +0000

I second an option for one-way synchronizing Thunderbird into Google contacts. As for me, google is the mediator from which I sync office, home, mobile phone and ipod touch as well as portable USB software, I would find it prudent to go with the more advanced storage format (thunderbird), sync this to google as human-readable text, which will then forward this to handheld devices via nuevasync or somesuch…

also, what about a solution that used a fixed-format approach, for example a comma delimited approach which would simply leave missing fields empty, ie:

using the above example:
thunderbird
-street/Address: Rudolfstraße 1
-postcode: 8010
-town: Graz
-State/Province:
-country: Austria

with syntax , , , ,
to google:

Rudolfstraße 130, 8010, Graz, , Austria

this also correctly parses in google maps and might be snychable back to thunderbird if empty fields simply produce an extra comma.

By: frombrosis

frombrosis — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:38:23 +0000

Keep up the good work Zindus people! It’s really frustrating to think in 2008 we still can’t something as simple as a unified address book system. Sure there is to some extent “standardisation” however, in all honesty, we shouldn’t *need* Zindus in the first place to keep things in sync.

Anyway, this solution is not for me unfortunately, as I want to keep my Gmail contact list neat and tidy… A real shame, hopefully Google one day allow for more fields in their postal address contact system.

By: Olli

Olli — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:27:23 +0000

Even if the proposal of 56ksurfer is not synchronized with the iphone or other mobile phones, I would realy like to have a “human readable” address on google side. You could realize this as an option.

That would be a great feature!

If someone add address text which is not conform to this syntax on the google side, he should live with wrong synchronization.

Another possibility (or option) would be to synchronize address fields only from Thunderbird -> Goggle and not vice versa.

Thanks for your great work!

By: 56ksurfer

56ksurfer — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:55:51 +0000

.. correction: iphone does not sync it. nuevasync.com does it this way!

By: 56ksurfer

56ksurfer — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:42:37 +0000

What about syncing the thunderbird address fields into the google address field?
In a fix or maybe user defined format. for example:

thunderbird
-street: Example st
-number: 1
-postcode: 12345
-town: Melbourne
-country: Australia

== > into ==>

Google freeform field:
Example st 1
12345 Melbourne
Australia

if every syncclient a person uses does the same it works fine. That would be cool to sync with the iphone. which does it like in the example above.

By: leni

leni — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:06:19 +0000

@Pete - yes, Google Groups will eventually sync with Thunderbird mailing lists. The current plan is that this feature will co-incide with release of Thunderbird 3. See the roadmap.

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:47:43 +0000

Are there plans to implement sync between Google Groups and Thunderbird Lists?

I can’t tell you how useful this feature would be to me.

Cheers

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