Hoary OpenOffice evolution addressbook as data source?
Norman Silverstone
norman at littletank.org
Tue May 3 06:55:06 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 00:10 +0200, Andre Truter wrote:
> On 5/2/05, Norman Silverstone <norman at littletank.org> wrote:
>
> > >
> > How did you add the Evolution address book to OpenOffice please as I
> > would like to be able to do this? Thanks
> >
>
> You need to install the openoffice-evolution package.
> Then, in OOo: Tools->Data Sources
> Click the 'New Data Source' button on the top left of the dialogue.
> At 'Database type', select 'Address Book'
> At 'Data Source URL' you should then get the evolution connect string.
> If not, click on the browse button to the right and select the
> evolution string.
>
> Click 'Apply' and then go to the 'Tables' tab.
> You should have a list of all available address books in evolution.
> Tick the ones you want.
>
> That should do it.
>
> But I think it does not work properly on Hoary. I tried it on two
> different machines and on both the contents of the address books are
> not available.
Thank you, I will give it a try but I expect you are right.
Norman
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