[OGo-Users] Re: GroupDav GAL

[Robert Bolduc]

Hi Jamey,

I can reproduce your problem when creating a new card in Thunderbird.  The automatic 
upload is not working on card creation or updates.  The workaround for now is to hit the 
synchronize button after card edition. I am working on a fix.

The cards duplication is caused by using an AddressBook created with a version of the 
plugin prior to 0.51 with the newest version.

The synchronization mechanism has been improved to allow users to use all the fields 
available in vcard and Thunderbird card format.  That modification broke backwards 
compatibility thus causing the download of all the cards.  The best way to prevent this is 
to create new address books and delete the old ones.

The synchronization mechanism is now stable.  We are working of new features and currently 
fixing kinks with Thunderbird 2.0.

The official location of the plugin is: 
http://www.inverse.ca/english/contributions/thunderbird_groupdav_plugin.html

We just added an automatic redirection on the old page to prevent people to still get the 
old version of the plugin.

The plugin was submitted today to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird, it is 
currently in the sandbox, which means only registered users have access to it until the 
review process allows it to become public 
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/pages/sandbox

Robert

> Subject: Re: [OGo-Users] GroupDav GAL
> 
> Looks like Helge found the link.
> 
> I have found a couple of issues in writing contacts to the server when I
> create a new contact in a GroupDav connector address book.
> 
> First:
> When I click the GroupDav synchronize button, I get a "<number of new
> cards> card(s) could not be uploaded do to: 200"  message which would
> seem to indicate the server did not accept the upload.  However,
> clicking synchronize again, actually downloads the contact from the
> server, and I wind up with a duplicate entry in the local address book.
> Deleting the original one I created does work and I will no longer have
> a duplicate in the local copy of the address book.  I suspect the
> connector is incorrectly stating the error so it then fails to
> synchronize the local entry with the server entry.
> 
> Second:
> Sometimes the created contact does not appear in the Ogo WebUI.  Some
> do, some don't, I haven't had the time to find the reason for this.
> However, even the one's that do not show in the WebUI, download from the
> server using the connector.  I can create a new address book, sync to
> it, and it will download the contacts that are invisible in theWebUI.
> 
> I suspect both issues have something to do with their contact schema not
> exactly matching.  I will be contacting the developer of the plugin.
> When I find out more I will post it here.
> 
> 
> 
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