Re: org-contacts development

[Michael Strey <mstrey@strey.biz>]

On 2014-05-23, Alexis wrote:

> What would be useful would be an 'official', fleshed-out spec for
> org-contacts data, which handles a greater range of contact-related
> info. At the moment, for example, my org-contacts file makes use of the
> properties:
>
> #+PROPERTY: LANDLINE
> #+PROPERTY: MOBILE
> #+PROPERTY: POST
> #+PROPERTY: RESIDENCE

I have been following a VCard-like naming scheme for org-contacts
properties for a longer time. 

see
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-04/msg01224.html

Recently, because of the lack of support for properties in MobileOrg and
the lost support for links in properties, I finally decided to export my
contact data to Google Contacts and -- just in order to try it -- to
BBDB.  I accomplished this by creating a table with org-collector and
exporting it to CSV that can be imported by Google Contacts and BBDB.

Therefore I had to change the naming scheme.  It is now similar to that
of Google Contacts.

Here is the appropriate code:

#+BEGIN_SRC org
# -*- mode: org; org-cycle-hook: (org-cycle-hide-archived-subtrees org-cycle-hide-inline-tasks org-cycle-show-empty-lines org-optimize-window-after-visibility-change) -*-
* Contacts
:PROPERTIES:
:CATEGORY: Contacts
:ID: 39584cda-bff0-4b8a-9460-4fefb5b5922c
:END:
** A - Contacts                                                     :CONTACT:
:PROPERTIES:
:CATEGORY: Contacts
:END:
*** Actia Sodielec                              :DAB:DVB:EMPFÄNGER:noexport:
:PROPERTIES:
:KIND:     org
:Organization 1 - Name: Actia Sodielec
:Address 1 - Type: Work
:Address 1 - Street: 
:Address 1 - PO Box: Site Aveyron
:Address 1 - Extended Address: BP-9 Route de Mayres
:Address 1 - City: Saint Georges de Luzen\c{c}on
:Address 1 - Region: 
:Address 1 - Postal Code: 12100
:Address 1 - Country: France
:Phone 1 - Type: Work
:Phone 1 - Value: +33 565 623740
:Phone 2 - Type: Fax
:Phone 2 - Value: +33 565 623070
:Website 1 - Type: Work
:Website 1 - Value: http://www.actiasodielec.fr
:LANG:     en
:END:

Saint Georges de Luzenḉon

**** Carsac, Sara
:PROPERTIES:
:KIND:     individual
:Organization 1 - Name: Actia Sodielec
:Organization 1 - Department: Broadcast, Rail & Transport (BTF)
:Organization 1 - Title: Responsable Commercial, Sales Manager
:FN:       Sara Carsac
:Family Name: Carsac
:Given Name: Sara
:Nickname: Dear Sara
:EMAIL: s.carsac@actiasodielec.fr
:Phone 1 - Type: Work
:Phone 1 - Value: +33 618 12345
:Phone 3 - Type: Mobile
:Phone 3 - Value: +33 668 12345
:Phone 2 - Type: Fax
:Phone 2 - Value: +33 565 12345
:Website 1 - Type: Work
:Website 1 - Value: http://actiasodielec.fr
:LANG:     en
:END:

** B - Contacts                                                     :CONTACT:
:PROPERTIES:
:CATEGORY: Contacts
:END:
*** BTI Technologieagentur Dresden GmbH                              :ADMIN:

**** Naumann, Michael
:PROPERTIES:
:KIND:     individual
:Organization 1 - Name: BTI Technologieagentur Dresden GmbH
:Organization 1 - Department: EU Forschung und Technologie
:FN:       Michael  Naumann
:Family Name: Naumann
:Given Name: Michael
:Nickname: Sehr geehrter Herr Naumann
:Address 1 - Type: Work
:Address 1 - Street: Gostritzer Str. 61-63
:Address 1 - PO Box: 
:Address 1 - Extended Address: 
:Address 1 - City: Dresden
:Address 1 - Region: 
:Address 1 - Postal Code: DE-01217
:Address 1 - Country: Germany
:EMAIL: eu-forschung@bti-dresden.de
:Phone 1 - Type: Work
:Phone 1 - Value: +49 351 871 7560
:Website 1 - Type: Work
:Website 1 - Value: http://www.bti-dresden.de
:LANG:     de
:END:

* Export

** Export for Google Contacts
- C-c C-c on line #+BEGIN: updates the table
- place cursor within the table
- M-x org-table-export

#+BEGIN: propview :id "39584cda-bff0-4b8a-9460-4fefb5b5922c" :cols (Given\ Name Family\ Name ITEM Name\ Prefix Name\ Suffix Nickname EMAIL Phone\ 1\ -\ Type Phone\ 1\ -\ Value Phone\ 2\ -\ Type Phone\ 2\ -\ Value Phone\ 3\ -\ Type Phone\ 3\ -\ Value Phone\ 4\ -\ Type Phone\ 4\ -\ Value Address\ 1\ -\ Type Address\ 1\ -\ Street Address\ 1\ -\ PO\ Box Address\ 1\ -\ Extended\ Address Address\ 1\ -\ City Address\ 1\ -\ Region Address\ 1\ -\ Postal\ Code Address\ 1\ -\ Country Address\ 2\ -\ Type Address\ 2\ -\ Street Address\ 2\ -\ PO\ Box Address\ 2\ -\ Extended\ Address Address\ 2\ -\ City Address\ 2\ -\ Region Address\ 2\ -\ Postal\ Code Address\ 2\ -\ Country Address\ 3\ -\ Type Address\ 3\ -\ Street Address\ 3\ -\ PO\ Box Address\ 3\ -\ Extended\ Address Address\ 3\ -\ City Address\ 3\ -\ Region Address\ 3\ -\ Postal\ Code Address\ 3\ -\ Country Organization\ 1\ -\ Name Birthday Organization\ 1\ -\ Title Organization\ 1\ -\ Department Website\ 1\ -\ Type Website\ 1\ -\ Value LANG TAGS) :colnames ("Given Name" "Family Name" "Name" "Name Prefix" "Name Suffix" "Nickname" "E-mail 1 - Value" "Phone 1 - Type" "Phone 1 - Value" "Phone 2 - Type" "Phone 2 - Value" "Phone 3 - Type" "Phone 3 - Value" "Phone 4 - Type" "Phone 4 - Value" "Address 1 - Type" "Address 1 - Street" "Address 1 - PO Box" "Address 1 - Extended Address" "Address 1 - City" "Address 1 - Region" "Address 1 - Postal Code" "Address 1 - Country" "Address 2 - Type" "Address 2 - Street" "Address 2 - PO Box" "Address 2 - Extended Address" "Address 2 - City" "Address 2 - Region" "Address 2 - Postal Code" "Address 2 - Country" "Address 3 - Type" "Address 3 - Street" "Address 3 - PO Box" "Address 3 - Extended Address" "Address 3 - City" "Address 3 - Region" "Address 3 - Postal Code" "Address 3 - Country" "Organization 1 - Name" "Birthday" "Oganization 1 - Title" "Organization 1 - Department" "Website 1 - Type" "Website 1 - Value" "Language" "org-tags") :defaultval "" :inherit (TAGS) :conds ((stringp KIND)) :match "-ARCHIVE" :noquote t

#+END_SRC

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