Birthday in Address Book
If I have only a day/month to insert under birthday in Address Book, I notice that appears the current year which I don't want, mainly people give a day not the year.
How to go about it ? Can I use iCal for that or only Address Book and then is syncronized.
any other better alternative application/solution ?
Thanks
You can link contact details together by putting the name of one in the related names field of another; a contact can have multiple related names.
AK
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Birthdays in Address Book appear 2 days earlier in iCal
I have the correct birthdays in Address Book. However about half of the birthdays (not all) appear in iCal 2 days before (e.g., Address book has correct date of 7/13 and it shows up in iCal on 7/11).
How can I correct this?I have a similar problem, but only with some of the birthdays. For some reason two appear one day and one year earlier than I have entered them in address book. I would like to know how to sort out the reason for this and correct the errors.
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Can MULTIPLE birthdays on Address Book card show up in iCal?
iCal 2.0.3 - I have a number of cards in my Address Book that list primary party, spouse and several children. I have created in Address Book on a single card a birthday field for EACH of the parties on an Address Book card. However, only the primary party's birthday automatically is transferred to the Birthday calendar in iCal.
The only way I have been able to have all the birthdays shown in iCal is to have a separate Address Book card for each member of the family. Obviously, this bloats the Address Book.
Is there any way that I can accomplish this with one Address Book card with multiple birthday fields?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Mac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)While you can't list multiple birthdays for multiple members of a family on a single card in Address Book and have them automatically added to the Birthday calendar in iCal, you can by using Dates to iCal donationware manually insert birthdays into the iCal Birthday calendar (http://www.nhoj.co.uk/)
This is great in that it keeps you from having to bloat your Address Book by unnecessarily creating a separate card for each additional member of a family, e.g. -
How do I add multiple birthdays to address book cards?
I am trying to figure out how to add multiple birthday's to cards in my address book. Example I have Jennie & John Smith & their daughters Sue & Susie. How do I add a birthday for each one? There does not seem to be a way to add more then 1 birthday but I can add as many URL's, e-mails, phones, address etc. as I want?
Hi RSER,
Apologies in advance for quantity of detail following..
Currently there appears to be no way to add an additional birthday. (Haven't explored command line options)
There are shareware options that will allow you to utilise the 'anniversaries' field to make additional birthdays and add them to iCal.
Personally, when I want that level of individual detail for a person I make a sep. card and add a note or 'related person' item.
I can only assume that the decision was made by Apple that we can have (and do) any number of phones and emails etc, but usually have only one birthday (some lucky people ie Queen Elizabeth have an official public holiday 'birthday' in some Commonwealth countries, so they get more gifts... but then have your issue)
With iCal you are potentially stepping into a minefield (so many things could be improved)
But consider that Apple have a key philosophy of simple.
There is enough for everyday use, but not so much it is overwhelming to the new user
If you want advanced functionality/technical capabilities, buy a 3rd party product
Certainly there are additions I would like to see:
The 'related names' field would be very useful if it were threaded within the address book to link/refer to other contacts, not just a static field.
Threading within contacts would also be convenient for adding names/addresses to an appointment in iCal (but not have to send requests etc)
Making a contact a 'Business', should allow multiple 'people', or as above, tie in multiple contacts
Maybe something for v6...
Maybe I should buy another app too
Hope that at least eases the pain.
Anthony -
Multiple birthdays in Address Book on one card
Hi. I am trying to figure out how to list multiple birthdays for an entire family on one card in AddressBook. For example...
My sister has 3 children. I have her name in AddressBook that synchs with I-Cal.
I have her birthday listed but I want to find a means to list her childrens birthdates on the same address card so they appear in I-Cal too.
thanks..Hi,
You could add the birthday dates as custom dates in Address Book and use Dates to iCal.
Best wishes
John M -
Importing birthdays into address book
I am trying to import my birthdays from microsoft outlook into the contact information in address book. Can anyone tell me how to do this on a mass scale?
When I switched to Mac, I used a dandy little app called o2m to get everything from Outlook. Not perfect, but almost. Go to www.littlemachines.com/download.php
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Hi,
I'm new to Address Book and iCal and am trying to get things set up. One thing I'd like to do is get birthdays to show on my calendar. I understand how to set that up to link to Address Book. What I'm trying to figure out how to do is structure things within Address Book.
Ideally, I'd like to create a master contact entry for a family and have everyone in the family listed on the entry with their name and individual birthday. I've added the birthday field and it is only added once to a contact. What's the simplest work around in Address Book?
Any help would be appreciated.Well that is something that I don't think the address book was designed for. A single entry will only allow for one name and one birthday since one address card is made for one person or company.
a contact group entry might work for you. You can name the group "The Smiths" and put an entry in for each family member of "The Smiths" with their birthday info email address and all. I understand that some phone numbers and the home address might be redundant but with everyone having cell phones now, it makes sense to have an entry for each individual person. -
Adding selected Birthdays from Address book to an iPhoto Calendar
I'm creating a Calendar in iPhoto, I have a large number of birthdays in my Address Book but I don't need all of them added to my Calendar Project (ie: Business contacts,etc). Is there a way to only add selected people, or a group to my project or do I have to import the birthdays and go in manually afterwards and erase the people I don't want?
Thanks.AtzeP
I did find a solution! I found that it was working from my laptop, but just not from my desktop. So, on my desktop computer, in Address Book, I deleted the field "Birthday" from my template, then I re-added it and from then on, it worked. There must have been something corrupt in the that field in my template. To get to it in Address Book:
Hightlight a card, then click Card > Add Field > Edit Template
Scroll down to the Birthday field and click the minus sign next to it.
Then add the field back in:
Highlight a card, then click Card > Add Field > Birthday
That worked for me. There are two parts that I don't know about:
1) I don't THINK it will delete the Birthday field in cards that already have a birthday entered. I think it just deletes that field in the template and therefore in newly entered contacts that field would be missing, but I would make sure you have that data backed up in some way first.
2) I don't know if the birthdays that are already entered will suddenly appear in your calendar or if you'll have to go back and delete and then re-enter that info.
I hope it works for you! Let me know! -
Calendar "show birthdays from Address Book"
There doesn't seem to be a way to select a particular Group from Address Book to add to a Calendar. Is there a way to do that?
No. What I've done is create an iCal birthday calendar and added the birthdays I wanted there and then use that for the iPhoto calendar. Some work at first but once done it's easy to maintain and use.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
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Birthdays of address book accounts others than local
There appear no birthdays in iCal for contacts of Apple's address book, if the contact are NOT within the Local account, but part of a CardDAV account. If I copy a contact to the Local account the birthday appears in iCal.
My iPhone (iOS4) uses also CardDAV to sync these contacts, but the birthdays are shown in the iPhone's calendar perfectly.
Is iCal able to handle birthdays of Local contacts only?Sorry for the delayed response. As I said, this is a quick hack of somebody else's work, so the end result isn't pretty, but it works.
http://www.jmatt.net/misc/vbook.php.txt
http://www.jmatt.net/misc/vcard.php.txt
vbook is the script you run. It requires vcard.
To execute it, first export your address book entries into a single vcf file. In Address Book, select the server account. In the menu , select File->Export->Export Group vCard and put the file wherever you want it. The script as written expects to find this file in the folder above the script, but that's easy to change.
After you have the file in the right place, execute the script. It writes to standard output, so you'll probably want to pipe it to an .ics file. Then import that file into iCal.
As I mentioned, if you have multiple Macs, you'll want to run this file on each one, and import the file into a local calendar. If you try to put it on a server and share it between Macs, the address book links in the calendar entries won't work.
Obviously, this is a minor PITA as you need to run it regularly if you have a lot of changes in your Address Book. It's not too bad for me, because I don't have a lot of changing info. I run it every few months, whenever I think about it, in case I've recently added a birthday to my address book.
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Where do you enter birthdays in Address Book?
Title says it all...where do you enter the birthdays in the Address book so they appear in iCal??
Hi
Address Book > Preferences > Template > Add Field > Birthdays
Tony -
I can't add a second birthday to address book entries?
Does anyone know how to add a second birthday for a address entry. many of my entries are for couples and I can't seem to enter each of their birthdays. listing couples as seperate accounts is not a valid solution. Hope someone can help. Thanks satew
I have managed to mispell my own name it's stew
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Some of the birthdays I have entered in Address book appear in my Ical one day and one year earlier than the date I have given. Eg. I have entered a birthday in Address book as 23 March 2011 and it appears in Ical as being on 22 March 2010. Other names have no problems. There are only some that do not appear with the correct date and year. Why is this? Has anyone found how to correct this strange problem? I have Time Zones ticked.
Bronze2011I'm having this exact same problem, but it's doing it with a bunch of birthdays. I also did 0001 when I didn't know the birth year, so I went back and did a more current year, but they still aren't showing up where they should be...or at all. It's completely bizarre.
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Birthdays added to Address Book contacts are not showing in ical
I have added my contacts birthdays in Address Book but it hasnt populated over to iCal
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Have you selected "Show birthday calendars" in iCal's Preferences/General? -
I used to use Yahoo Calendar to manage my birthdays and notifications of them. Yahoo screwed with something, so now I no longer get birthday notification texts to my cell. Now, I've imported my Yahoo Calendar dates in to iCal. iCal has a Birthdays "subscription" calendar which only shows birthdays entered into the Address Book. I do not have any birthdays entered into Address Book. Is there any way to select birthday entries from my other calendars and move them to the birthdays tab, or must I manually enter over 200 birthdays into Address Book?
While I'm here, is there any way to highlight specific calendar entries and move them to a "new calendar"?
THanks in advance for any and all help.
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