Open
Bug 20304
Opened 25 years ago
Updated 23 days ago
Export address book card/contact as vCard
Categories
(MailNews Core :: Address Book, enhancement)
MailNews Core
Address Book
Tracking
(Not tracked)
NEW
People
(Reporter: rzach, Assigned: neil)
References
(Blocks 2 open bugs, )
Details
(Keywords: helpwanted, parity-Outlook, Whiteboard: [nab-card][patchlove][gs][wip: bug 924530])
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(2 files, 1 obsolete file)
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AFAIK, the Palm sync utilities currently existing for Linux work on vCard files, so being able to export the address book in vCard format would be the next best thing to supporting address book synchronization with Palms on Linux. Independently of that, however, it would be really nice if address book cards could be saved to and imported from vCard files. Also, it should be possible to forward an address book card as a vCard attachment (select card, then File|Forward as vCard brings up a message composition window with the adress book card attaches as a vCard. I think Outlook can do this).
Mass move mailnews bugs to Putterman. Ouch.
Assignee: hangas → putterman
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Comment 4•24 years ago
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[FEATURE] bugs past M16 are OUT for this release. Marking M20. If you disagree with this action, please help me explain it to the PDT.
Target Milestone: M17 → M20
Moving target milestone to "future" to be reviewed at a later time
Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: M20 → Future
The Windows version of the Palm software now supports vCard, as does the Address Book application that ships with Mac OS X.
Comment 10•23 years ago
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*** Bug 114046 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Updated•23 years ago
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Whiteboard: nab-card
Comment 11•23 years ago
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vcard support is also needed to be able to import pine's addressbooks - currently pine can export in vcard format, but Mozilla can not import it.
Comment 12•22 years ago
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vCard is also the best way to transport addresses from or into the following addressbooks: - Lotus Organizer - Outlook Express (if you are not inporting a complete OE Addressbook) - Balsa, GnomeCard, - etc. It is the open standard for address data.
Comment 13•22 years ago
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I have a patch for this but I'll need some input from mailnews people. It currently implements vCard v3.0, what other versions should we support (it should be fairly easy to add other versions afaict)? There doesn't seem to be a way to only export one adress card, do we want to be able to do that? The "Export" feature is currently only supporting exporting the whole address book to one file. In the case of vCards we need to save to multiple files. This poses a challenge to the UI as depending on the format we need to let the user select a file or a directory. I currently handle this by letting the user select a file and save the vCard files in the same directory as that file with the card's displayname as the filename but I don't like that solution. Input appreciated.
Comment 14•22 years ago
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> There doesn't seem to be a
> way to only export one adress card, do we want to be able to do that?
Yes!!! In the "File" menu there is a menu item "Print card" which prints the
currently selected card. I haven't used this feature yet because I don't see a
need to print an address book card, but I very often missed a menu item "Save
card" in the "File" menu which would save the currently selected card in vCard
format.
Also, it would be very helpful to have the possibility to directly attach
vCards from the address book to outgoing mail messages (e.g. to send contact
details from the address book to a collegue).
*** Bug 176803 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16•22 years ago
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my iPod is hot for mozilla's adress book, too! implementation shouldn't be too difficult, other export formats already exist (ldif, csv). couldn't the vCard export code be based on one of those?
Comment 17•21 years ago
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one enhancement per bug, pls reopen bug 114046 for forwarding card
Summary: [FEATURE] Save abook card as vCard/forward as vCard → Export address book card as vCard
Comment 18•21 years ago
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It would be nice to export Vcard in order to send to users to add to their company addressbook easily.
Comment 20•21 years ago
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Why is Bug 176803 (can't add vcard to addressbook) marked as a duplicate of this bug (Export address book card as Vcard). Surely they are inverse operations ... or maybe the summary of this bug should be changed
Comment 21•21 years ago
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As vCard is an industry standard used by many applications, an import/export function would be very important
Comment 22•21 years ago
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A temporary workaround for people who want to export their contacts to vCard for use with e.g. an iPod: export to CSV, go to http://homepage.mac.com/phrogz/CSV2vCard_v2.html, and you can convert it to a vcf file.
Comment 23•20 years ago
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*** Bug 248834 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Comment 24•19 years ago
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And if this enhancement is to be implemented one day, please also adds the following points as requirements to support of vcard: 1. Context menu on an address book has one more item: "Attach as vCard" 2. Right now when I received a vCard, the context menu has the "Save Link Target As..." item, but this isn't working. You can't save it because the "filename" is a URL starting as "addbook:add?...". Maybe I should open another bug for this??
Updated•19 years ago
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Assignee: sspitzer → mail
Comment 25•19 years ago
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I needed to import LDIF and export multi-address vCard. Mozilla/TB, Palm Desktop, OL/OE and a bunch of other stuff I tried couldn't do it. I didn't want to get a website to parse it as the addresses are not mine to post to a website I don't run. KAddressBook (discovered while building a new print server from Fedora) performed superbly. Any chance someone could look at the code and whether something similar could be implemented in Moz/TB Address Book? Pretty please?
Comment 26•19 years ago
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Is this now a Mozilla Suite only bug ? Must I create a new bug for Thunderbird ?
Updated•19 years ago
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Assignee: mail → nobody
Component: Address Book → MailNews: Backend
Product: Mozilla Application Suite → Core
QA Contact: nbaca
Target Milestone: Future → ---
Updated•19 years ago
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Component: MailNews: Backend → MailNews: Address Book
QA Contact: addressbook
Comment 27•18 years ago
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*** Bug 327999 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 28•18 years ago
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I also need a feature to export 1 to many addressbook items to a Vcard format. I'll use this feature to export my collected items to my pda or my E-groupware server, till I'll foud a valid syncronization procedure. Thanks.
Comment 29•18 years ago
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I forgot something: DRAG&DROP will works fine for export as vcard, I think. Thanks a lot. (In reply to comment #28) > I also need a feature to export 1 to many addressbook items to a Vcard format. > I'll use this feature to export my collected items to my pda or my E-groupware > server, till I'll foud a valid syncronization procedure. > Thanks. >
Comment 30•17 years ago
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I hate this workaround but it works for me: - Install the Contacts Sidebar extension - http://jpeters.no-ip.com/extensions/index.php?page=tb_cs - Once it's visible, right click on a contact, click "forward contact" - Email contact to self, once received "Save attachment" locally Selecting several contacts produces a single "contacts.vcf" file.
Updated•16 years ago
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Blocks: Outlook-Parity
Updated•16 years ago
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Product: Core → MailNews Core
Updated•16 years ago
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Priority: P4 → --
Comment 31•16 years ago
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The following Thunderbird addon provides vCard exports and more: https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/morecols-en.html Please incorporate the code into Thunderbird or offer it as an offical Mozilla addon.
Comment 32•16 years ago
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and also see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/309953
Comment 33•16 years ago
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Given that both Portable Contacts and CardDAV are converging around vCard, this feels pretty important to me. I think we want this for Tb3, and might even want to block on it.
Flags: wanted-thunderbird3+
Comment 34•15 years ago
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This would be a nice feature for Thunderbird 3, especially if it could be customized by extensions to add more fields. I did something similar for an add-on [0] in JavaScript. [0] http://www.pirules.org/extensions/opencrx/index.php
Comment 35•14 years ago
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A quick patch adding vCard output to the Address Book exporter; this dumps an entire directory to vCard format, and could perhaps be extended further to provide some context menu items for sending/exporting individual contacts. Bug 79709 addresses the inverse operation.
Comment 36•14 years ago
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Thanks for the patch, Evan! I'm a little confused about why it changes the vCard version from 2.1 to 3. I was under the impression that the vCard code we have in the tree doesn't support version 3...
Comment 37•14 years ago
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@dmose: if that's the case, I'll change it back - I thought perhaps someone forgot to update the version number.
Updated•14 years ago
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Attachment #432661 -
Flags: review?(dmose)
Comment 38•14 years ago
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Comment on attachment 432661 [details] [diff] [review] Patch adding vCard output to Address Book > Tools > Export. I'm a bit leery of just exposing this feature in the default UI for two reasons: 1) vCard v2 is now extremely dated. I think it would be good to have some understanding of how the popular mail clients react when they're fed a list of v2 vCards (various versions of Outlook, GMail, Yahoo mail, Hotmail, Mail.app) before we move forward with this. It would also be good to know exactly whom the current output is useful to and why. 2) Last I looked, LDIF was the only export format that we have where we actually do a good job of roundtripping all the data. All the other formats have some amount of data loss. We have no way of indicating that in the UI at the moment, which sets users up to lose data more often than they do today. That said, if you can figure out a way to do everything in core except expose it to the UI so that an add-on could do the work of exposing it and framing expectations correctly, I'd happily accept that patch. Assuming that you want to take a shot at this, another thing to note is that these days, we're requiring automated tests for patches in order to land in the core. <https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Thunderbird/Thunderbird_Automated_Testing> is a good starting point there, and people in IRC or on one of the mailing lists can you help you figure out stuff that isn't documented...
Attachment #432661 -
Flags: review?(dmose) → review-
Comment 39•14 years ago
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Fair enough; didn't realize our vCard support was *that* shaky. The updated patch removes vCard export from frontend, while exposing a new exportDirectory() method in nsIAbManager; this exports the directory to a string, so that exportAddressBook() wraps this to dump that string into an nsILocalFile. It also adds an xpcshell test for export to CSV, tab-delimited, and vCard formats. Let me know if this is a sensible direction to take :)
Attachment #432661 -
Attachment is obsolete: true
Attachment #435264 -
Flags: review?
Updated•14 years ago
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Attachment #435264 -
Flags: review? → review?(dmose)
Comment 40•14 years ago
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Would it be that hard to support vCard v3 (and maybe even roundtripping)? The lack of vCard-support (including UI!) is really embarrassing, given that every phone I have (wireless, mobile, IP) supports it and it was the only way to get my contacts there. I had to use KMail for ldif -> vcard conversion! :(
Comment 41•14 years ago
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(In reply to comment #40) > Would it be that hard to support vCard v3 (and maybe even roundtripping)? That conversation would probably be better in bug 221991 or on tb-planning. However, the main issue that our current vcard code is based on yacc generated code, it is not simple or easy to modify and it should just be rewritten anyway. We've considered using a third-party library in the past but iirc never found a suitable one (and obviously no-one's stepped up to rewrite it).
Comment 42•14 years ago
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Is abny kind of vcard support going to make it into the next version? I've got 3.2a at the moment (David Bienvenu's test version) and it doesn't have vcard export of address book. The need I'm working with is exporting VCARDS so they can be imported into OSX Address Book (since the OSX Address Book integration is unfortunately read-only - i.e. you can't add addresses to the OSX Address Book from TB) - going via vcards would be the easiest way.
Comment 43•14 years ago
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I don't think we really know at this point; we're still pretty heads down on 3.1, and 3.2 doesn't really have any definition around it yet. For the problem you're caring about, you might to take a look at Contacts add-on port to Thunderbird described in various blog entries at <http://shane.caraveo.com/>. It may not actually be helpful to you, but it does do a bunch of addressbook manipulation, and natively thinks about things in Portable Contacts format, which should (from a data model standpoint) be fairly compatible with vCARDs, and it's possible you could chain something together based on that code in combination with something else.
Comment 44•14 years ago
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Thanks - but "Contacts" (especially since its in pre-alpha) seems like a really complicated / heavy way to deal with a fundamental ommission in TB.
Comment 45•14 years ago
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omg!
Summary: Export address book card as vCard → Implement exporting address book card/contact as vCard
Updated•14 years ago
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Summary: Implement exporting address book card/contact as vCard → Export address book card/contact as vCard
Comment 46•13 years ago
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Comment on attachment 435264 [details] [diff] [review] updated patch for vCard export We're sorry for the big delay in getting to this. Looking at the patch, I don't think that returning a string is really appropriate. We should already have other methods to get a vcard as a string, and this is just ending up as a wrapper for multiple, which I don't think is really appropriate for a function called exportDirectory. I think what I'd prefer is to change the existing exportAddressBook to something like this: void exportAddressBook(in nsIDOMWindow aParentWin, in nsIAbDirectory aDirectory, [optional] in long aExportType, [optional] in nsIFile aFileName); aExportType and aFileName would both be optional arguments that an extension could supply together, which would skip the file dialog and save directly to the specified file in the format required.
Attachment #435264 -
Flags: review?(dmose) → review-
Updated•13 years ago
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Flags: wanted-thunderbird+
Whiteboard: nab-card → [nab-card][patchlove]
Updated•13 years ago
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Whiteboard: [nab-card][patchlove] → [nab-card][patchlove][gs]
Updated•9 years ago
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Assignee: nobody → neil
Comment 47•9 years ago
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It seems to me this depends on bug 924530.
Comment 48•9 years ago
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(In reply to Sylvhem from comment #47) > It seems to me this depends on bug 924530. Thanks, indeed. Bug 924530 seems same as this one, so fixing that will fix this.
Depends on: 924530
Whiteboard: [nab-card][patchlove][gs] → [nab-card][patchlove][gs][wip: bug 924530]
Comment 49•6 years ago
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can we close this as fixed?
Updated•2 years ago
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Severity: normal → S3
Comment 50•1 year ago
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Exporting a complete TB/AB with .vcf is possible with vers.102.
.vcf exporting a single contact is only possible with a workaround that is anything but a good user experience.
Workaround: Define a new additional AB to copy the contact you want to export. Finally, export this "additional AB".
Keywords: parity-Outlook
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