Steven Zahm@ kees de graaff
re: I know there a bunch of people who store their addresses in Word or even spreadsheets.
If they are storing their addresses in spreadsheets, that is exactly what the CSV Import extension is for. You would save the spreadsheet as a CSV file and import that file. With Word, well, there’s no option I can think of other than putting it into a spreadsheet.
re: I thought that connections-pro was all about records off addresses
Sure, that is one use case, most use it for either a business directory or staff directory. Most staff directories I’ve seen Connections used for do not use addresses at all. Basically name, bio, email and social media link.
re: Adresses should kept in the appropriate application. Thats Outlook, Mail for the mac or Eudora, or whatsoever. All those applications use vCards.
Actually all those application use essentially a database to store the contact data, not vCards. They are able to import/export them. Some do a better job than others. Outlook 2010 actually seems to do a pretty pore job of importing vCard not created by Outlook 2010 because it doesn’t adhere to the standard all that well. Really, none of the apps do, unfortunately.
re: And again: with your application I can download vCards. But I cannot upload them????
Yes, because I was able to leverage the use of a third party script that writes the vCards … it has no ability to actually parse a vCard, I would have write that from scratch. With so very few users wanting or needing this feature … I focus development time on the most requested features by the larger majority of the users. If you take a look at the change log for Connections, you’ll see that it is constantly being improved with those requested higher features. I do apologize … but I am not able to provide every feature that every user could possibly want, not because I don’t want to, just would not be practical and it would make Connections extremely/overly complex. I do hope you understand.