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Re: DialCentral 0.9.0

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Originally Posted by dick-richardson (Post 275003)

Works great, though contacts display a little odd (all of them preceeded with 'GV').

I can change it if people wish but I precede the contact with the source of the contact, GV for GoogleVoice, GC for GrandCentral, CSV for csv file, and EVO for evolution mainly for when using the "All" listing of contacts. Originally it showed icons but I was too lazy to make icons for the different contact lists.

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I don't think it's necessary since you can choose between them from the drop-down, but it certainly isn't a big deal.

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Id definitely like to see just the names of my contacts and not GV or GC or anything

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While I would like SMS included I also realize it's not that great. Because it then means I have to keep the application open just to send or receive SMS messages. It would be better integrated into a mail client or a chat program.

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I dont mind having to keep a webpage open, but i dont like having to refresh the page to see if i got a new message...want it to be like it was when you could use the built in im client with gtalk...have it just show up, like an IM

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Yeah, hopefully we'll get something like that..

In other news, I upgraded to Google Voice (might as well since they're going be forcing us to upgrade eventually). It seems that the new DialCentral is having trouble recognizing the & symbol.

Edit: Hmm is there anyway to port a recognizable CSV file from Evolution? (also where do I put the CSV files) Or for the Dialer to recognize setup groups in Google Voice so the contacts aren't dumped all into one place?

Re: DialCentral 0.9.0

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Originally Posted by Laughing Man (Post 275126)

In other news, I upgraded to Google Voice (might as well since they're going be forcing us to upgrade eventually). It seems that the new DialCentral is having trouble recognizing the & symbol.

In what way is the & symbol being used? As a note, even if you upgrade your GC account to GV, you can still use the GC login for DialCentral

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Originally Posted by Laughing Man (Post 275126)

Edit: Hmm is there anyway to port a recognizable CSV file from Evolution? (also where do I put the CSV files) Or for the Dialer to recognize setup groups in Google Voice so the contacts aren't dumped all into one place?

Place the CSV in the directory "~/.dialcentral/contacts"

I treat the first line of the CSV as column headers. I look for a "name" column and either "phone" or "mobile" columns and use those. If an evolution export does not work, if you just give me the first line of the CSV, I'll try and add support for it. Sorry I'm lazy and try and find excuses to not use evolution.

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Originally Posted by epage (Post 275160)

In what way is the & symbol being used? As a note, even if you upgrade your GC account to GV, you can still use the GC login for DialCentral

Place the CSV in the directory "~/.dialcentral/contacts"

I treat the first line of the CSV as column headers. I look for a "name" column and either "phone" or "mobile" columns and use those. If an evolution export does not work, if you just give me the first line of the CSV, I'll try and add support for it. Sorry I'm lazy and try and find excuses to not use evolution.

Oops, I was wrong. It's not the & symbol but the '. It shows it as &#39'. Or amp;amp;

Evolution's can be done to whatever I want. I think I used the default..(given_name, family_name, id, nickname, email, home_phone, mobile_phone).

So if I made something similar to just name, and phone it would work? I tried to use the export from Evolution and only some of them showed up (trying to identify what's causing those to show up versus the others ont showing up).

What do you use to generate and maintain CSV files? Perhaps that'll be easier for me lol.

Re: DialCentral 0.9.0

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Originally Posted by Laughing Man (Post 275165)

Oops, I was wrong. It's not the & symbol but the '. It shows it as &#39'. Or amp;amp;

You say its having trouble recognizing the symbol. Could you give more details as to where this is at, like which notebook tab and which widget within that notebook?

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Originally Posted by Laughing Man (Post 275165)

Evolution's can be done to whatever I want. I think I used the default..(given_name, family_name, id, nickname, email, home_phone, mobile_phone).

So if I made something similar to just name, and phone it would work? I tried to use the export from Evolution and only some of them showed up (trying to identify what's causing those to show up versus the others ont showing up).

What do you use to generate and maintain CSV files? Perhaps that'll be easier for me lol.

I haven't really used any tool to generate them but the default export option of different websites like Google Contacts and GrandCentral.

The algorithm that I use is this:

Code:

for each column name in header row

   find the first column name that contains "name"

     use this column as the name column

If no name column found, default to the first column



for each column name in header row

  if the column name contains "phone" or "mobile"

    add it to a list of phone columns to use

If no phone column is found

   use the second column as the phone column

Currently I have it ignore contacts loaded from a file if they have no phone numbers in their row. I did this just to drop down the number displayed when using Google Contacts exports since there are so many without a number due to having enabled auto adding of contacts. If this seems confusing to people I can remove it.

If for some reason it is skipping contacts that with that algorithm should show up, then its a bug and I would like to fix it. If I its not a problem with my algorithm then I would be fully willing to try and add support for the default export from evolution. I would ask for a sample (sanitized is fine) since I tend to hate evolution. I tried to create a sample myself but ran into some issues (and serious annoyances that reminded me why I avoid it). On my system (Ubuntu 8.10 with Evolution 2.24.3) I can't even find an export option besides vcard and backup which both wouldn't work.

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By notebook do you mean the contacts? If so it's in contacts > Google Voice. And it's names like BB&T Customer Service, or Cugini's Pizza that I have saved.

Hmm, perhaps if I re-arrange the columns in Evolution to your layout (name then phone #) maybe it would work better. I'll report back Saturday or Sunday with the news (going out to eat soon and then gf will be over so no messing with electronics). Though that still doesn't explain the oddity of it including some contacts and not others when they're all setup like that.

Actually I think I might have figured it out. Evolution stupidly repeats categories such a "home phone" and if it does that. It won't show the # listed under home phone until you change the other category to something else. So I think I'll also fix all of these and try again.

And if all that fails I'll give you a mostly santized file.

Btw, I had to Google how to export to CSV myself. (there's no GUI tool for it).

The command for Ubuntu 8.10 is /usr/bin/evolution-addressbook-export --format=csv >whateveryouwanttocallit.csv

It'll be in your home folder then after that.

Edit: epage, thanks for being willing to help! Also, is it possible to have more then one CSV file at a time?