Comments on: Zimbra 6.x birthday field http://www.zindus.com/blog/2010/04/29/zimbra-6x-birthday-field/ Google and Zimbra contact sync for Thunderbird. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:03:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: RL-S http://www.zindus.com/blog/2010/04/29/zimbra-6x-birthday-field/#comment-1645 RL-S Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:25:04 +0000 http://www.zindus.com/blog/?p=117#comment-1645 It would take me far too long to edit 5000 contacts. Has anyone come up with a script that searches and edits the field? It would take me far too long to edit 5000 contacts. Has anyone come up with a script that searches and edits the field?

]]> By: leni http://www.zindus.com/blog/2010/04/29/zimbra-6x-birthday-field/#comment-1644 leni Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:17:38 +0000 http://www.zindus.com/blog/?p=117#comment-1644 @RL-S, when you ask "is there a fix for this" - exactly what is the problem? @RL-S, when you ask “is there a fix for this” - exactly what is the problem?

]]> By: RL-S http://www.zindus.com/blog/2010/04/29/zimbra-6x-birthday-field/#comment-1643 RL-S Mon, 10 Jan 2011 03:39:40 +0000 http://www.zindus.com/blog/?p=117#comment-1643 I have thousands of contacts with this birthday field. Is there a fix to assist with this. I have thousands of contacts with this birthday field. Is there a fix to assist with this.

]]> By: Dave http://www.zindus.com/blog/2010/04/29/zimbra-6x-birthday-field/#comment-1237 Dave Wed, 12 May 2010 00:17:37 +0000 http://www.zindus.com/blog/?p=117#comment-1237 Ten years after Y2K and we still can't exchange dates? Progress. Ten years after Y2K and we still can’t exchange dates? Progress.

]]> By: leni http://www.zindus.com/blog/2010/04/29/zimbra-6x-birthday-field/#comment-1120 leni Sat, 01 May 2010 01:04:14 +0000 http://www.zindus.com/blog/?p=117#comment-1120 Updated the blog entry as follows: Zimbra version 6.07 will return to yyyy-mm-dd, so the addon will retain sync of birthday field. The Zimbra bugfix does not migrate birthday values entered as nn/nn/yyyy , so any Zimbra users who entered birthdays in Zimbra versions 6.0-6.06 will have to change those values to yyyy-mm-dd by hand. The relevant fixes in the addon are curently in <a href="http://zindus.com/i/testing-release" rel="nofollow">testing</a> and will be in release 0.8.16. Updated the blog entry as follows:

Zimbra version 6.07 will return to yyyy-mm-dd, so the addon will retain sync of birthday field.

The Zimbra bugfix does not migrate birthday values entered as nn/nn/yyyy , so any Zimbra users who entered birthdays in Zimbra versions 6.0-6.06 will have to change those values to yyyy-mm-dd by hand.

The relevant fixes in the addon are curently in testing and will be in release 0.8.16.

]]> By: leni http://www.zindus.com/blog/2010/04/29/zimbra-6x-birthday-field/#comment-1105 leni Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:24:06 +0000 http://www.zindus.com/blog/?p=117#comment-1105 @florian, users don't want to "take care of the content" in the sense of having to manually enter yyyy-mm-dd and avoiding the Zimbra datepicker because it generates nn/nn/yyyy. Nor do users want a configuration option in the addon to enable/disable something that ought to work out of the box. Yes, some advanced users might be able to take advantage of a configuration option that enabled TB's structured birthday field to sync with Zimbra's unstructured one. But this would be a fragile proposition at best, and would inevitably break in some percentage of cases, resulting in increased support for the addon. An unappealing scenario. In any case, any decision on this is on hold until Zimbra 6.07 is released (see comment #2 above). @florian, users don’t want to “take care of the content” in the sense of having to manually enter yyyy-mm-dd and avoiding the Zimbra datepicker because it generates nn/nn/yyyy. Nor do users want a configuration option in the addon to enable/disable something that ought to work out of the box.

Yes, some advanced users might be able to take advantage of a configuration option that enabled TB’s structured birthday field to sync with Zimbra’s unstructured one. But this would be a fragile proposition at best, and would inevitably break in some percentage of cases, resulting in increased support for the addon. An unappealing scenario.

In any case, any decision on this is on hold until Zimbra 6.07 is released (see comment #2 above).

]]> By: Florian http://www.zindus.com/blog/2010/04/29/zimbra-6x-birthday-field/#comment-1103 Florian Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:39:02 +0000 http://www.zindus.com/blog/?p=117#comment-1103 "Can't reliably sync it" is only true in general. However, you could leave it up to the user to take care of the content, or make it to a configuration option of Zindus. I think there are many possible solutions and most of them are better than simply not syncing it (which could of course be a user option, too). My 2ct. Regards, Florian “Can’t reliably sync it” is only true in general. However, you could leave it up to the user to take care of the content, or make it to a configuration option of Zindus. I think there are many possible solutions and most of them are better than simply not syncing it (which could of course be a user option, too).

My 2ct.

Regards,
Florian

]]> By: Zimbra user http://www.zindus.com/blog/2010/04/29/zimbra-6x-birthday-field/#comment-1083 Zimbra user Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:55:27 +0000 http://www.zindus.com/blog/?p=117#comment-1083 PS: There is a bug related to this, it should soon be fixed (targeted version Zimbra 6.0.7) http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=46570 PS: There is a bug related to this, it should soon be fixed (targeted version Zimbra 6.0.7)
http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=46570

]]> By: Barry Kelywn http://www.zindus.com/blog/2010/04/29/zimbra-6x-birthday-field/#comment-1080 Barry Kelywn Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:24:26 +0000 http://www.zindus.com/blog/?p=117#comment-1080 Well, it's sad news for me because I like my birthday fields synced but I understand why you make that decision. Well, it’s sad news for me because I like my birthday fields synced but I understand why you make that decision.

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