Re: Synchronize Treo650 palm cellphone pda with flat ASCII csv text file
- From: "HotPaw03" <rhnlogic@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 7 Dec 2005 12:36:58 -0800
To sync, you need at least 3 more items in your text csv database:
An exact mapping from text csv field to Palm address record field.
An update indicator or change timestamp (so the sync process can
tell whether the data in the csv or on the Palm device is newer),
and a record identified (Palm uses a 32-bit unique ID code), so
that the syc process knows which records to compare for updates.
Can you add those to your text csv database and maintain correct
and consistant values by hand? If so, then, perhaps, a custom
conduit could be developed.
If not, you could figure out the format that the Palm desktop used
for export/import, write a perl script to convert your text database
to that, import that to the Palm desktop and sync as if your text
database was the master, then remove any duplicates.
Anthona Susa wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 16:06:28 -0700, Tinman wrote:
> > Noooo? Really? In my world, where I actually use a Treo 650, I have
> > these little things like addresses, email addresses--and much more--that
> > I'd like to be able to access for each contact right on my Treo--yep,
> > even personal contacts. How can I do that with five fields?
>
> Uh, so you add fields to your text file. What's the big deal.
>
> last,name,middle,company,title,address,phone,cell,fax,email,, CR
> last,,first,,title,address,phone,cell,fax,email,birthday, CR
> last,,first,company,,address,phone,cell,fax,email,,cell2 CR
> etc.
>
> My ascii text databases can have as many fields as they like. Each field is
> delimited by a semicolon (instead of a comma) and each record is delimited
> by a carriage return. What's so hard about that? This simplicity allows for
> as many fields as you care to maintain and the databases last for decades
> like any good database should. In fact, an ascii text database (csv if you
> will) has no wear-out mechanism so they don't depend on fashions as
> ephemeral as the platform of the day (and I've seen dozens of these
> platfoms, currently Outlook & Palm, come and go over time yet the time
> honored ascii databases remain as long as they are maintained properly).
>
> >> I think that is precisely what the OP asked for.
> > Then by all means tell him the answer!
>
> I think it's clear that neither you nor I know how to synchronize a palm
> pda to a single contacts file. Unfortunately, we're the only ones posting,
> which isn't going to help anyone else but feed our egos to see our names in
> print.
>
> I, for one, suspect there is a trivially simple way to synchronize a palm
> pda contact file with an ascii text (csv if you will) character-delimited
> contacts file - but I don't know how.
>
> Does anyone anywhere know how to synchronize a palm pda to a contacts file
> without using outlook or the palm desktop? I certainly don't.
IMHO. YMMV.
--
Ron
http://www.hotpaw.com/rhn/palm/
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