Kaddressbook 'Categories' field was gone

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 29 April 2010 10:05:31 Frank Weng (a.k.a. Franklin) wrote:
> 在 2010 年 04 月 29 日 週四 17:00:15，Anne Wilson 寫道:
> > On Thursday 29 April 2010 02:03:47 Frank Weng (a.k.a. Franklin) wrote:
> > > 在 2010 年 04 月 29 日 週四 02:43:19，Dotan Cohen 寫道:
> > > > Thanks, I will address the issue of KDE-PIM. As for your kaddressbook
> > > > resource, I think that you should start a new thread on that so that
> > > > we can fix it.
> > > 
> > > I just tried to add my kaddressbook resource again, and this time it
> > > worked! I don't even know why it failed before.
> > > 
> > > I created a new address book resource and imported the vcard files into
> > > it. However I found that the 'categories' fields were gone.  I tried to
> > > add a new contact within the kaddressbook, no categories field either.
> > > I rely on the 'categories' much, especially in my Kmail.  In the kde4
> > > resource folder I found that the field 'categories' was still in the
> > > vcard cache files, but in kaddressbook it does not have that field.  So
> > > I can not add a new contact with certain category.
> > 
> > As you've discovered, the data is not gone, but you can't at present get
> > to it.  Categories, as such, will go.  Tags will replace them.  I
> > believe there will be a migrator to bring in your existing categories
> > into tags, but it's not available yet.  As a temporary fix, for your new
> > contact, put the category tag into Notes, on the Business page.  At
> > least it will be searchable then.
> > 
> > Anne
> 
> Since KMail uses the same resource for selecting To: and CC: and bcc:
> fields, it now is grouped with "categories" fields.  If I put my
> categories in "Notes" fields, can KMail use that too?
> 
Not directly, I think.  You'd have to search your addressbook for the term, 
then copy/paste.  It's a work-around, not a fix.  :-)

Anne
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