Entourage 2004 has a Spouse field. Prior to converting to Entourage, I used
the Custom 1 field in the Palm (version 4, Palm IIIxe) and renamed it
Spouse. How can I get the Spouse field in Entourage to show up in the Palm
Address app?
The Entourage 2004 Conduit lets you map any of the 8 Entourage Custom
fields, as well as various address and name/title fields (but not Spouse),
to any of the 5 Palm custom fields.
In HotSync Manager (or MissingSync if you use that instead), double-click
Entourage Conduit. Next to the Address Book popup (for Synchronize, etc.) is
a "Settings..." button. Click it.
In the lower half of the window that comes up you'll see "Custom Field
settings". Next to the "Spouse" Handheld field on the left (or it may still
be referred to as "Custom 1", etc.), click the popup on the right, and
choose a Custom field in Entourage that you don't currently use.
In fact, before you do any of this, you could go into any Entourage contact,
click on any Custom field name, click "Edit label" and change the label to
"Spouse" (or "Spouse (Custom)"). Then that's the name you'd see in the popup
list of available custom fields in Entourage when you're in the conduit
settings.
So you won't be able to sync to Entourage's own Spouse field - but you can
sync to an Entourage custom field that you rename "Spouse". If you already
have lots of names in Entourage's spouse field and want to copy them to the
custom field you choose (whatever you name it), you can do it via a script
you can rum in Script Editor:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set spouseContacts to every contact whose spouse ‚ ""
repeat with theContact in spouseContacts
tell theContact
set custom field three to (get its spouse)
--set spouse to ""
end tell
end repeat
activate
beep
display dialog "All Done!"
end tell
Use the correct custom field number instead of 'three' - no matter what
you've actually named the field to. If you also want the Spouse field to be
blank from now on, remove the '--' comments before that 'set spouse' line -
otherwise, leave as is (or remove that line).
--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <
http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>
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