[kdepim-users] ownCloud Adressbook: Groups

[Samir Nassar]

On Monday, 2014-12-08 11:20:19 Florian Lindner wrote:
> Sorry, I do not really understand you.
> 
> Of course, there can't be a perfect bidirectional mapping of all properties,
> but the concept of groups exist in both ownclound and the KDE adressbook.

This might be true, but we have contact information interchange formats, one 
of which is vCard

KAddressbook and ownCloud support vCard 3, but support some fields differently 
and don't support others. (For fun, export a contact from GMail's contacts in 
vcard format and import into KAddressbook and ownCloud).

In any case, I created a group on ownCloud called test and added a contact to 
that group. Then I downloaded the contact's information from ownCloud (.vcf) 
and looked at it with Kate. There is no group information in the vcf file. So 
it seems that the grouping of contacts is by ownCloud's design external to the 
contact information.

Since the grouping of ownCloud's addressbook doesn't get transmitted to 
KAddressbook it seems KAddressbook can't match the grouping you set in 
ownCloud.

> Your posting sound like one should not really try to use owncloud with KDE
> synchronization because any data can possible vanish. Is the entire owncloud
> synchronization broken?

It is possible but only for a smaller selection of fields.

Both ownCloud and KAddressbook could solve a larger chunk of these problems by 
supporting vCard 4 ( https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337759 ) ( 
https://github.com/owncloud/contacts/issues/553 ).

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Samir Nassar
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