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Syncing with other users
by MandrakeUser on Thursday 10/Nov/2005, @04:12

Friends. Here is my situation. We use linux at home, each person has an account.
We need to sync with our PDA's , and that's working great with Kontact. Only
thing we are missing is: we would like to share/sync part/all of our appointments
and contacts. Maybe part of them. Say, just the "family" group of contacts. We
want to have the same kontacts on this group, and it is multiplication of work for
all of us to enter each contact in their account.

I know that this is feasible with a groupware solution, but this seems overkill
for 3 users, none of which has the time to set up a server, etc. Is there any
simpler solution in the horizon ? Maybe with KitchenSync ? Or may be a simple
solution for a quick and basic groupware miniserver for a home desktop within
KDE ? Something nice with a config wizard and pretty interface ?

Many thanks in advance!

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Re: Syncing with other users
by Ingo Klöcker on Thursday 10/Nov/2005, @07:07

You can share data by sharing files:
For sharing contants export all contacts you want to share as vCard 3.0. Move the exported vCard file to a folder all of you can access. Now add this vCard as a second address book (Settings->Show Extension Bar->Address Books, then click on the Add button, select File, enter the file name).

For the appointments you can do it similary, i.e. export to iCalendar and add the calendar file via Settings->Sidebar->Show Resource View as "Calendar in Local File".

If you also want to access you data from remote locations then all you need is an account on an IMAP server. There's no need for a fullfledged groupware server.

For more information: kdepim-users at kde.org.

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Re: Syncing with other users
by MandrakeUser on Thursday 10/Nov/2005, @08:13

Thanks a lot Ingo! I'll take a look tonight.

In principle it looks like this solution would imply having duplicate entries, when the same contact is entered by two users (say me and my wife). Unless
the info is somehow merged, but then again, I'll take a look and see ...

Cheers!

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Re: Syncing with other users
by Andre Somers on Thursday 10/Nov/2005, @12:30

Just a guess, but can't you just add a shared contacts resource that's readable and writable for all your users?

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