OPIMD: List of available attributes documented?

Thomas Zimmermann zimmermann at vdm-design.de
Thu Aug 6 12:22:15 CEST 2009


Am Donnerstag 06 August 2009 09:09:58 schrieb Michael Pilgermann:
> Many thanks for all your input ...
> I had noticed already by going through the opimd code / db scheme that the
> selection of fields is dynamic.
>
> However, I think there is really a need to agree upon a common set of
> attributes (maybe "core" attributes), which are supported.
>
> With the contacts-shr support for opimd (some additional phone-gui
> packacke, I recently installed - which, by the way, is not working for me
> yet due to some import error), it could be interesting, which fields are
> used in there (well, that will be from my point of view the most frequently
> used contacts app in the end) ...
>
> From my experiences with developing PISI as a contact sync engine, I
> realized that fields "out there" are really different - e.g.: - LDAP (with
> different schemes; for Contacts use additional mozilla scheme) - VCF-Files
> (vcard)
> - DB-Structures (e.g. QTopia)
>
> There is a "standard" available for PIM synchronization by OMA called SynML
> (http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/affiliates/syncml/syncmlindex.html)
>. If you look at it, they use vcard (vcf) as well for carrying the content.
> VCard is a standard - so it might be worthwile to take a deeper look in
> which fields they are using and how they structure the content.
> (http://www.imc.org/pdi/)
>
> Mike

I would vote for syncML structure, even opimd can hold a more flexible 
structure. But syncML is used in a lot of phones and this way i can be easier 
to integradte opimd in exisiting sync programms, perhaps on windows too.

So syncML: +1

Thomas



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