Comments on: Operator 0.7 is available

By: Egon Willighagen

Egon Willighagen — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:11:54 +0000

Hi Mike,

great addon! I have been working on microformats (and RDFa) for chemistry [1]. Now, How much work would it be to extend your Operator to support other microformats? While the user scripts allow setting up new actions, they do not seem to allow for extracting new microformats. Is your code opensource?

1.http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2006/12/including-smiles-cml-and-inchi-in.html

By: mkaply

mkaply — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:12:20 +0000

I’m working on a way to make export all available from microformats mode.

Also, I apologize that the actions model has been so up and down. Just trying to get it right

By: Stephen Paul Weber

Stephen Paul Weber — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:08:48 +0000

It would be nice if export all was available somehow from microformats mode…

I guess I’ll wait a bit to re-write my videntity script too… until the actions model is more stable…

By: Tomm

Tomm — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:16:15 +0000

Thanks Mike, I’ll check it out.

By: mkaply

mkaply — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:11:42 +0000

Tomm:

My update will handle this situation better, but the problem is the empty ABBR for dtend in your microformats:

By: Tomm

Tomm — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:46:29 +0000

When I upgraded to 0.7, all functionality regarding hCalendar stopped working for me. I can’t add events to iCal (MacOSX) with “Export event” or add events to Google Calendar. Even the “debug” option stopped working. Nothing happens when I select it (in 0.6.2 i got a debug window).

I had to revert to 0.6.2 to get this working again. Exporting hcards worked fine though (in 0.7).

The events I’m trying to add are on this page:
http://www.med.uio.no/disputaser/

By: cesare

cesare — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:24:53 +0000

Mike, I think I found the problem (and maybe the solution). First I found this:

http://microformats.org/wiki/vcard-implementations#Nokia_series_60_address_book

The Contacts application on Nokia series 60 handsets will only open vCards with Windows (\r\n) line endings. Any other line ending styles will cause an error message.

Then, with TextMate, I saved the test.vcf as pasted from Operator debug panel setting the Line Endings option to CRLF (Windows). Now it works No unsupported format alert.

By: cesare

cesare — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:34:38 +0000

Ooops, sorry Mike, but maybe this is better to make a comparison. I’ve imported in Address Book the test.vcf as generated by Operator, then re-exported it. This what I get:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:;;;;
FN:Auditorium parco della Musica
ORG:Auditorium parco della Musica;
item1.ADR;type=WORK;type=pref:;;Via Pietro de Cubertain;Roma;Roma;00100;
item1.X-ABADR:it
X-ABShowAs:COMPANY
X-ABUID:F12F338F-2B33-48F5-941A-1C3CFABAA341\:ABPerson
END:VCARD

By: cesare

cesare — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:31:19 +0000

For your info Mike, if I export a vCard form Apple Address Book I get a file with .vcf extension. I tried to transfer it to my 6630 via the Bluetooth File Exchange Utility and it works, no unsupported format alert. I paste below the code of Address Book .vcf and of Operator .vcf. I hope it can help you:

1. .vcf exported from Apple Address Book

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:Lamanna;Cesare;;;
FN:Cesare Lamanna
item1.EMAIL;type=INTERNET;type=pref:info@address.it
item1.X-ABLabel:email
item2.EMAIL;type=INTERNET:info2@address.it
item2.X-ABLabel:email
CATEGORIES:abcd.it
X-ABUID:052DB10B-BB0B-49FA-82D5-8B8B98C52B6E\:ABPerson
END:VCARD

2. .vcf generated by Operator

BEGIN:VCARD
PRODID:
SOURCE:http://upcoming.org/event/169180/
NAME:Upcoming.org: Festival della Filosofia at Auditorium parco della Musica (Wednesday, May 9, 2007)
VERSION:3.0
N:;;;;
ORG;CHARSET=UTF-8:Auditorium parco della Musica
FN;CHARSET=UTF-8:Auditorium parco della Musica
UID:
ADR;CHARSET=UTF-8:;;Via Pietro de Cubertain;Roma;Roma;00100;
END:VCARD

By: cesare

cesare — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:12:36 +0000

Mike, I followed your instructions:

Go to Operator->Options. Change to microformat mode and turn on debug mode. Then go to the item in the operator toolbar and select debug on the popup menu. There will be a tab that vcard/icalendar. Cut and paste the content of this and save it to test.vcf or something like that.
Then drag and drop that onto the bluetooth file exchange app in utilities and see what happens.

But I still get the unsupported format alert…