Address book template changes lost?!

I got configured with iCloud some weeks back and made some changes to my Contacts template. when I made new cards at first, they conformed to the newly-change template. Now, they don't.
Any clues what up with this? Does iCloud not..."preserve" things like prefs settings and template configurations for Contacts?

I have this exact problem....did you find a solution? I would be eternally grateful...

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Address Book template and Exchange server

We're in the process of upgrading about 250 Macs from OS 9 to Mac OS X 10.4.3 at my work. We're now binding our Mac workstations to the Active Directory and having folks log in against the network. One byproduct of this is that the Apple Address Book now can search/display folks in the Exchange Server's Global Address Book. However, the template that the Address Book uses to display each person's information is pretty limited. We get the full name, LAN ID, a business group, a location/building, a "work" phone number (which is an internal number) and the internal e-mail address. The Global Address Book contains significantly more information than this, including a true local phone number. In Outlook, this field is defined as a "Business 2" phone number. Editing the default Address Book template does not seem to allow any of this additional information to be displayed. Is there somewhere else that we could edit a file so some of these options are mapped correctly to the Apple Address Book?
-Doug

The template preference should work for you. If you hit the green + button you can add fields with all kinds of different default names. If those field names don't match your needs you just select the field name (the bold typeface one) and scroll down in the resulting box and use the "custom" field to add any title you wish. It should change the name of that field to the name you wish to use and that will match the named fields you all area already used to using. You can do this with any field so you should be able to match any fields you wish.
I hope I understand your question correctly. If not...sorry.

Address Book template-to-display oddity..

(Hi! I first posted this query in the Leopard>Mail and Address Book Discussions, but there's been no response there, so I thought that there might be a greater chance of a response from those with Tiger experience and expertise..)
I've spent three-quarters-of-an-hour searching through previous posts to see if this has appeared as a problem before, but can't find any mention here in Leopard nor Tiger Discussions..
I'm asking on behalf of my beloved, who's tearing her hair..
She's created an Address Book Template (Address Book>Preferences>Template) and has successfully imported records from Filemaker (by using 'Address Book Importer').
HOWEVER, although she's created (or renamed) fields in the Address Book template, such as
home page
birthday
last changed
Data in/change
C1
C2
work done
practitioner
etcetera (..those C1 and C2 are Comment fields..) nevertheless when data's been imported (and it does all import OK!) some of the fields shown in her Address Book cards are displayed in a different order.. e.g;
home page
birthday
last changed
Data in/change
C1
work done
Admin info
category
flat
C2
..etcetera. In other words, the C2 field, for instance, is displayed far further down the fields list than it is in her template, where it sits just beneath C1!
This doesn't seem to be based on some peculiar alphabetical or alphanumeric sorting of the fields or the data within them, and when all fields have data in them then that re-ordering is consistent ..e.g; C2 is always separated from C1 by having 'work done', 'Admin info', 'category' and 'flat' between them. ("Flat" is an address field; in the UK "flat" means "apartment".)
We don't seem to be able to find any re-ordering facility which would bring back the display into the same order as the template.
Is there such a facility to re-order the display, apart from re-ordering the template on a kind of hit-&-miss basis until it sticks properly in the cards display? ..And has anyone else come across - and solved? - this problem of fields being arbitrarily(?) re-ordered in the display?
Many thanks in advance..!

The template preference should work for you. If you hit the green + button you can add fields with all kinds of different default names. If those field names don't match your needs you just select the field name (the bold typeface one) and scroll down in the resulting box and use the "custom" field to add any title you wish. It should change the name of that field to the name you wish to use and that will match the named fields you all area already used to using. You can do this with any field so you should be able to match any fields you wish.
I hope I understand your question correctly. If not...sorry.

Address Book Template Bug

I think the Address Book is great, except for this one annoying bug I've found with the template...
I've customized the template with extra fields and custom labels e.g. for emails I have "home 1", "home 2", "work 1" etc. and similarly for phone numbers. Now when I create a new address book contact, all these fields and labels are available. But once I have added information to one of the fields (i.e. put an email address in to "home 1") and then saved that contact, when I go back to add another email address (i.e. to put in "work 1"), these custom labels and fields are no longer available. It has reverted back to the original default template labels - "home", "work" and "other". All my custom labels are gone. But if I delete all the email addresses, save and re-open the contact, my custom labels are back?!?
I've spent a lot of time fiddling around with this and decided that it's a fault with the program, unless I'm missing something?
Macbook Pro C2D 2.33 Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Harwood64,
If you think this is a bug you can report it to http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html. Because Address Boook is part of OS X that would be the best venue to report the issue.
BTW because your profile is incomplete no one knows what version of OS X you are running. This is critical because Address Book is changed from version to version of OS X. Please complete your profile, you can find it by clicking Your Stuff (upper right) then click Profile and fill in the pertinent information.

Are there address book templates for Pages?

Does anyone know of an Address Book template available for Pages?

I know that.
The question is why would the O.P. want to create their own blank Address Book in Pages?
Peter

Address Book automatically changes the "Me" card to somebody else's vcard

We are using 10.6 server to provide LDAP and Address Book services, lately we've notice that Address Book automatically changes the "Me" card to somebody else's vcard which causes iChat and other apps to show the wrong user name.
Is this something that might be caused by an issue in LDAP? I created a record in LDAP which we use as a common account that can be accessed via CardDAV and everybody "shares" this address book (our version of a GAL).

No solution for you... only a half hearted "me too"
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17910812#17910812

How to delete a custom field created in Address Book template?

It is possible to create a new custom field name in any of the pop-up field categories in the preferences template for Address Book.
But, once created, there does not seem to be a way to delete or edit the newly created custom field name. That doesn't make sense.
Tell me that I am wrong, and then tell me how to delete or edit a custom field name. Thanks!!

Thanks Pascal, I can change the viewed template field areas as you have described. My problem was with modification of the pop-up list entries: adding, deleting, and renaming user created custom field entries. I have since figured out how Address Book allows these functions; unfortunately, that specific information is not present in the Address Book help file.

New Address Book Template Won't Work on My Address Card

My personal address card on my mac address book keeps listing my work phone numbers and email addresses first in each list and thus uses those numbers whenever I user Safari's autofill.
I changed the address card template so that home phone number and email addresses are the first item on the card, but this change does not work on my card in the address book. I even created an entirely new card for myself (with the proper field order) and then marked the card as mine and it automatically moved my work contacts to the top of the list. This is real annoying.
Anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks in advance

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Editing the Address Book template

Can I make multiple templates, for different categories? Such as a template for individuals and a template for companies.
Also, how do I change the order in which the fields appear?

To me this is such an obvious missing feature that I've been asking Apple for it for years. Perhaps you should too: http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/
I was searching here wondering if someone had written an Address Book plugin to enable additional and modified templates.

Address Book template drops fields

I'm trying to set up my address book for our local artists' association so it includes special fields that will contain information on dues paid this year (field=YWA) and participation in an annual art show (field= SAT).
First, I have a lot of artists already entered, but since entering them I have realized I must change the basic template. I've changed the basic template, but when I click "Edit" for an individual artist, the original template comes up, which doesn't have the fields I've added.
So I create a new template and reenter the artist, but half way through going back and forth between the old entry and the new entry on the revised template, the revised template drops the fields I've created and I'm back to ground zero. Sometimes even less than zero: fewer fields than the original template had.
Is this just an awful bug? It renders the address book useless...
Is there a solution to this, short of going back to Now Contact? Or is there another Address Book that works? Is there any way to import contacts into a new template without having to copy and paste each field again?

Update:
I am using Exchange 2010 for address book. Problem seems to be that you can't edit the photos or the template default when editing a card.
Works fine for any contact on my mac address book, but not on Exchange.
Anyone else with the same issue?

Removing Address Book template Labels

I understand how to add custom labels to address book fields such as "Phone" by using the custom function. But, how do I remove these custom labels?

In AB's preferences select the Template tab. Select the field with the custom label (home fax) and click the minus. Close preferences.
You will now find that, if you make a new card, and edit a phone field, you will not be offered the custom label in the pop-up. Similarly if you edit an existing card's phone field you will not be offered the custom label - except ...
Cards that already have the custom label will still have the custom label, and on those cards if you go to select a label you will still find home fax in the list. You should either delete those fields in the affected cards, or if you want to retain the fax numbers, change the labels to something that won't upset your sync program.
If there are a lot of them you could run an Applescript to do it - feel free to try this one, but note IT IS NOT TESTED (well, it runs, but doesn't do anything on my address book as I haven't any of those labels) so you should backup your address book before trying it. Change the substitute label to anything you fancy.
AK
click here to open this script in your editor<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">tell application "Address Book"
repeat with ThisPerson in people
repeat with ThisPhone in phones of ThisPerson
if label of ThisPhone is "home fax" then
set label of ThisPhone to "FaxAtHome"
end if
end repeat
end repeat
end tell</pre>

Adding Address2 line into the Address Book template

Need to add Address2 for Suite numbers in the address book. How is this accomplished?

You can use the return key in Line 1 to have a 2-line address. Doing this doesn't move you to a new field. Presumably you can add a third line in a similar way. This is often needed with UK addresses which are many lines long.
This is of course not a change in the template, just in typing the entry.
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Add 2nd address line to Address Book template

This question was asked back in December (by another user) but got no answers, so I'm going to try again.
From the original post: "How can I add an a second address line to the address book "address" template? Many of my contacts have multiple line addresses. For example, 1st line = department and mailstop, second line = street address.
I can see how to add other information to the "global template" such as job title and birthday... how do I go about getting some flexibility from the address record?"
Here's hoping!

I'm not sure if there is a way to add an Address2 field, but if you are typing the in Address field and press enter, you will start a new line just below the Address filed. It is still technically one field, but will appear as two lines, hopefully giving you the desired result.

How to disable my address book card changing my user picture

So here are the facts:
The Facebook app on my iPhone syncs Facebook friends' contact info (including photos) to my iCloud address book, including my own contact. My user profile on my Mac has been assigned a 'card' in my Address Book, the card being the contact (me) whose photo is synced with Facebook.
I have now discovered that whatever I manually change my user photo to (Prefences > Users and Groups > My username > Photo) is always replaced by my Facebook profile picture, due to iCloud and everything being synced up.
Therefore, the question which I think would solve my problem in the least distruptive way, is:
How do I stop my Mac account being linked to a 'card' in my Address Book?
I could then keep all my contacts photos, including my own, in my address book but still be able to manually set a user photo, as I would like to
Any answers or better work-arounds would be appreciated.
Lewis

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Address Book names changed by Mail.app

Hi,
I have a problem with mail, sometimes it changes the name of my Address Book contacts.
Let's just say I have someone named John (just John) in my Address Book, if that person sends me an email and his email name is John Doe, what will happen (not always, but frequently) is that my contact in the Adress Book app is changed from John to John Doe, automatically.
Is there some setting or something I could change to prevent this from happening?
Thanks.
Mario

Just to confirm; is it actually changing the name as viewed when you open up the Address Book application? Or is this just when you enter in a name in a new email message in Mail?

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