Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Compatibility between SIF-C, MS Outlook and Open Contacts

It is good to maximize the number of fields of contact data between devices. While SIF-C is the medium of exchanging info, the following fields defined in SIF-C were not implemented in "SifcToChangeLogXml.xsl" though it is not difficult to add them:

CallbackTelephoneNumber, CarTelephoneNumber, Categories, Companies, ComputerNetworkName, Importance, Initials, Language, Mileage, OrganizationalIDNumber, Revision, RadioTelephoneNumber, Sensitivity, Subject, TelexNumber, Timezone, Uid, YomiCompanyName, YomiFirstName

The Funambol Plug-in for MS Outlook needs to sync IM Address, and the plug-in add element "IMAddress" to the SIF-C package. Obviously SIF-C allows custom extension. So, "SifcToChangeLogXml.xsl" includes "IMAddress" to map to "Personal/IM" in Open Contacts.

The follow screenshot from testing shows that Open Contacts along with the sync client can handle almost every visual fields of MS Outlook Contacts.

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