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T300 and Outlook Sync - Partial solution...? |
Haggis
Joined: Mar 02, 2003
Posts: 2
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I have been trawling around for quite a while trying to find a way to get contacts from Outlook to the T300. I came to the conclusion there is no such product.
However::
It seems that the t300 uses microsoft virtual cards or vcf files - I guess a lot of you probably know this.
It turns out that vcfs can actually contain more than one contact...
If you open a vcf in wordpad you will see it is a simple text format
So in order to sync ( the long winded way)
Select all your contacts in outlook.
Choose Actions>Forward as vcard
this will give all the vcards as an attachment. You will probably have to send the mail to yourself to gain access to them....
Copy these all into a directory.
I used a dos program called "uumerge.exe" to then join all the files together.
use Word to do a global replace to remove the file title headers that uumerge insists on inserting.
You will end up with a text file such as this (this contains two entries):
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BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:Surname;Forename
FN:Forename Surname
ORG:Forename Surname
TEL;WORK;VOICE:012345678
TEL;WORK;FAX:012345678
EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:Someone@something.com
REV:20030302T161617Z
END:VCARD
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:Surname;Forename
FN:Forename Surname
EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:Someone@something.com
REV:20030302T161617Z
END:VCARD
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In windows 2000 simply right click the file and choose send via InfraRed
The phone will recieve the file and enter the contents.
I would recommend you delete all address entries before doing this.
You will note that you can send all entries from the phone to a pc by using phonebook, advanced, send all. This will give you a multiple entry vcf that you can open with windows address book.
Sorry its such a cumbersom method - but it does work....
Hope this gives someone some ideas.....
So to the big question... can anyone write a plugin for outlook which will send all entries direct to the T300 as a vcf file via IR? and also import a multiple entry vcf?
There must be a starting point here for some of the programmers among you!
Let me know your thoughts...
All the best
Haggis
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len
Joined: Oct 23, 2002
Posts: 44
From: Sweden
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Hey Haggis.
This is exactly what I have done. Check this thread out to try my app out, I need all the help/testing I can get. 
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=18544&forum=17 |
len
Joined: Oct 23, 2002
Posts: 44
From: Sweden
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uhm, I was too fast there... 
Well, my program actually takes the outlook calendar items and sends them to your t300. So I have not included a outlook contact item feature (yet), I thought that this can be done with already existing software. Or am I wrong? |
Crino77
Joined: Jan 14, 2003
Posts: 52
From: Rome, Italy
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i don't think....
i'm working to fma and T300 compatibility
@len
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Haggis
Joined: Mar 02, 2003
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Things are looking up!
We have a long way to get contacts across
We now have a Lens calendar editor, (which I think he easily could get to work with contacts now)
and Fma seems to allow sms editing - get errors on outlook sync and cant edit contacts with this!
BTW I contacted Sony Erricson customer services on this matter, who told me flat that the T300 does not support sync calendar or contact editing, to which i replied telling them that it does and they are missinformed or just too lazy to write the software .
I got a short reply saying thanks for the info and they will look into it.
(like they ever will!)
So its up to the guys here if anyone is going to get some decent software for the phone! |
Drake
Joined: Mar 10, 2003
Posts: 7
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How do you use this uumerge program exactly? Can't get it to work... |
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Posted: 2003-03-02 18:10
