Import / Export of contacts

[owncloud]

Import / Export of contacts

[crazy-max]

I have tried with Android stock app (+ DavDroid) and Thunderbird but i cannot retrieved categories and phone type changed on ownCloud 9.

So i have used eM Client to synchronize my contacts.vcf (exported from ownCloud 8.2) with my ownCloud 9 carddav and it worked very well and i have kept categories and phone type (cell, work, etc...).

A contact on my contacts.vcf looks like this (from ownCloud 8.2) :

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
PRODID:-//ownCloud//NONSGML Contacts 0.4.0.1//EN
UID:458b06c8-70cb-4a18-a8d7-e4cc353ff142
FN:Foo Bar
N:Foo;Bar;;;
TEL;TYPE=cell:[phone]
REV:2016-01-10T16:57:24+00:00
END:VCARD

[Henni]

Definitely planned! Maybe it'll make it into 1.0, otherwise it will be implemented shortly after.

[enoch85]

@Henni What's your nick on IRC?

[NeilMonday]

I'll be waiting (im)patiently for this.

Update: The workaround from @crazy-max also works with a vcf generated from gmail and imported with eM Client.

[DeepDiver1975]

I'll be waiting (im)patiently for this.

Waiting time can be shorted by contributing to this open source project! 😉

[dniku]

Has anybody found a way to import GMail contacts into ownCloud using only Linux software?

[irgendwie]

@Pastafarianist You can checkout the PR #237 - basic import functionality is worked on there.
It's already possible to import single *.vcf files (with one contact in them).
Feel free to contribute! 😊

[dniku]

@crazy-max @NeilMonday which CardDAV url did you specify in eM Client? For me, the one which worked for DAVDroid (/owncloud/remote.php/carddav) fails with "error: method not allowed" in eM.

[NeilMonday]

I tried 2 apps like davdroid and neither worked (possibly due to user error). Maybe try em client with wine?

[NeilMonday]

Sorry, misread your comment. I think I used this URL https://myurl.com/remote.php/dav/addressbooks/users/myusername/default/. Obviously replace myurl and myusername with what you have.

[dniku]

@NeilMonday thanks, it worked, but the groups were not preserved (I imported the contacts through *.vcf exported from Google). Did it work in your case?

UPD: I haven't found any reference to my old contact groups in the *.vcf file I exported from Google. Regardless, they are present in the *.csv export. Could someone post an example of a *.vcf entry which uses groups, so that I could merge the two files?

[NeilMonday]

I don't use groups unfortunately. You could export/import one group at a time maybe?

[Henni]

@Pastafarianist take a look at https://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/vcard-examples/john-doe.vcf
It contains groups, which are called CATEGORIES in the vCard standard.

[dniku]

@Henni will ownCloud recognize CATEGORIES as a comma-separated string?

[Henni]

@Pastafarianist yes
BTW: you are all welcome in our irc channel #owncloud-contacts

[Henni]

Partially fixed by #237 which implemented vCard import.
Closing in favor of a new label feature:import/export

[dniku]

Here is a very dirty example of how to convert a Google CSV to a VCF file: https://gist.github.com/Pastafarianist/6262b184ca3a8c990d4a

[enoch85]

@Pastafarianist

@crazy-max @NeilMonday which CardDAV url did you specify in eM Client? For me, the one which > worked for DAVDroid (/owncloud/remote.php/carddav) fails with "error: method not allowed" in eM.

The DAVDroid client will be updated, they released 1.0 beta now: https://davdroid.bitfire.at/configuration/owncloud/
https://twitter.com/davdroidapp/status/711675959582334976

[malfatti]

Hi!

I installed this app by cloning this repo into apps/ and then enable it on admin apps page. I can see the import button, but when I try to import a vcf with 257 contacts, I got no feedback, no loading, no nothing, and I waited for more than 30'. The same file imported sucessfuly in OC8.2.3, so the file seems to be ok.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!

[Henni]

@malfatti In theory it should work. We haven't implemented feedback for the import yet (e.g. progress bar). Please open a separate issue.