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How to import a vcard ?
February 22, 2008, 08:53:26 am
I know how to export one, but couldn't find a import. Am I missing something obvious ?
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Re: How to import a vcard ?
February 22, 2008, 10:08:30 am

that functionality is not present. A vcard importer would be a great community contribution :)

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Re: How to import a vcard ?
February 23, 2008, 03:23:09 am
Found two classes to parse:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/php-addressbook/
http://vcardphp.cvs.sourceforge.net/vcardphp/vcardphp/vbook.php?view=markup


The first one is PHP licensed, never quite understood how compatible it is with GPLv3. Could you accept it in civi ?

As for to put that in Civi, Is there a simpler to understand example that the scary CRM/Import/Parser/Contact.php ?

(alternatively, do you know how easy it would be to plug it above the import function ?)
More specifically, it'd see it as creating a default mapping vcard attributes -> civi contact fields, like for the CVS, and obvioulsy, instead of parsing the csv lines and feed them to the import, do the same with the vcard.

Could you tell me if this approach make sense based on the architecture of your importer ?

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Re: How to import a vcard ?
February 23, 2008, 11:02:41 am

We package the PEAR library with CiviCRM which is also PHP licensed.

Unfortunately import is quite old code and not as well structured or pluggable. Its due for a rewrite (happening in 2.x) which will make it more pluggable (and much more efficient I hope)

Since vcard has a fixed well defined number of fields, can you assume/hard-code the mapping and do the import one v-card at a time?

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Re: How to import a vcard ?
February 24, 2008, 07:57:51 am
Hi,

Featurewise,  got a few suggestions. Please knock on the forum when the rewrite time has come, we might have ideas as well to make it easier to use.

As for the hardcoding, sure, But they are quite a few cases (what if the contact is already in, what if the organisation of this contact is in, or what if not...) to handle, and I was assuming they were already covered.

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Re: How to import a vcard ?
February 24, 2008, 11:53:52 am

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you might want to start a wiki page with your thoughts and ideas on it. I suspect we wont get to it till 2.2 or 2.3 at the earliest

You can model the vcard import similar to contact import. However i dont think contact import is very pluggable at the moment

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Re: How to import a vcard ?
July 19, 2008, 07:25:56 am
on sourceforge there is an excel macro to transform vcards into vcf, this is free.
in my case I was having to transform thousands of companies an I bouyed a windows software for this.
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