Custom fields from Address Book on desktop don't sync to iPhone

I recently switched from a Palm Treo to iPhone. The sync wasn't seamless so I am editing contact info one at a time. I noticed that when I add custom fields to a card in Address Book they don't sync to my contacts in iPhone...why?
For example, I've created fields for the names of children but when I view the contact on my phone I only get the contacts Bday, Anniv and Notes section. Very frustrating since I'm spending time filling all of this info in. Can anyone help? Thanks!!

I also migrated from a Treo to an iPhone, and was hoping to have custom field information transfer from my desktop to my iPhone. It would be rather handy when I need help remembering the name of someone's spouse, etc. Has someone created an iPhone app for this perhaps?

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I viewed this Paragraph below from the following link on the Apple Site
http://www.apple.com/business/profiles/iwork/sara.html
As an administrative tool, she says, “All the documents we create with Pages — contracts, correspondence, receipts — are set up with data fields for the customer information I keep in my Address Book.
The drag-and-drop ease of Pages’ Mail Merge is just huge for us. Not only names and contacts, but wedding dates, locations, and the details of the service package they’ve ordered. So I can just drag the contact over any document, and it automatically populates the fields with the client’s information. This ensures that all our crucial customer information stays up to date and in one place, and we never have to duplicate work when we create documentation.
__ I cant find out how to do this as all the forums say this is not possible. I have contacted the person but do not have a response from them as yet. I have tried to do this but it wont populate the fields into the pages document..hmmmmm
Can this be done as described

Broker1972 wrote:
Sorry! I reposted because it wasn't answered.
Does Apple post this stuff on their site that the program cant do?
Did you check out the link? Did I read the article wrong? Can we advise them of this?
It seems that you don't understand what this forum is.
Here we are users trying to help other users.
The terms os use ask everybody to search in the existing thread before asking a question.
It seems that you didn't do that because searching in
"more options"
"iWork '08"
with the keyword "Addressbook"
gave some threads in which I peeked:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6559156
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6374991
So, as you may see, I checked the links, I knew what was written in them.
There is no false advertising or misleading here because the contents of these forums is not written by Apple's employees, just by users as you are.
So, I repeat: you reposted when the response was already available:
_iWork components are unable to import custom fields from AddressBook._
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 15 février 2008 16:30:55)

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Not sure if this has been covered, but I've got a lot of extrraneous custom labels created in Address Book.
Does anyone know how to remove the ones not wanted any longer ? Just that the list gets longer and longer each time !
Shame Apple didn't think to have all labels done with the first letter capitalised - looks much better that way.

I also migrated from a Treo to an iPhone, and was hoping to have custom field information transfer from my desktop to my iPhone. It would be rather handy when I need help remembering the name of someone's spouse, etc. Has someone created an iPhone app for this perhaps?

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I believe that I answer that question in a phone call message today to person who asked that, but in case that was a different customer, let me say yes, you can print your labels with both contact and company name. You want to download and run RollCall Directory, and select the Label feature. From the menubar, select the Labels menu, and then the Label Content submenu, and then the Custom menu item. You will see the Custom Label Content window, with the Macros used to display your labels. For example, the default address label is:
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This set of macros tells the label to print out one line of name (be it company name or persons name, depending on if the contact is company or person) followed by the address. You want to change it to:
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I have a 6200 contact database with 10 custom fields that I want to migrate from palm desktop to address book. I was hoping it was a simple matter of exporting the palm desktop database as a vCard, double clicking on the vCard icon on the desktop, and clicking yes to the question "do you want to import...to Address Book." But that imports the database without creating the custom fields, and instead puts all the info stored in the custom fields in the comment section for each database entry. Is there an automator action or a Apple Script (or any other way) of automatically creating these custom fields in Address Book?

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I've been following the news about Blackberry Desktop for the mac, but I will not have the opportunity to try it for myself until another 2 weeks, so I hope that the community here will be able to provide the answer to some of the questions that I have not seen answered here yet.
In the Apple Address Book I use custom labels to designate the names of particular contact people within an organization. For instance, on my contact card for GoDaddy support I have three phone numbers, each with a custom label of the contact person's name.
Has anybody used custom labels in their sync? Is the Blackberry then able to recognize the labels properly?

Thank you for your reply. But I do want to clarify. I am not trying to sync Address Book Groups, but rather custom-named fields from Address Book. The computer program allows you to give your own name to any of the fields on a contact's card. In the example I gave, the single contact card named "GoDaddy" has three custom labels, one for each of the contact people within the company. Something like this:
GoDaddy
Tim - xxx-xxx-xxxx
Ryan - xxx-xxx-xxxx
James - xxx-xxx-xxxx
Main: xxx-xxx-xxxx
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Soon I will be able to test it myself, but as of now I still do not have access to a blackberry to test this...

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When I create a custom label for telephone numbers in Address Book, for eg I change "mobile" to "work mobile", only the first eight or nine characters of this are displayed. The remainder of the label is truncated to ... regardless of the size of the window.
With acres of empty white space to the right of the telephone number, it would be nice to be able to see the entire label. Does anyone know how to do this?
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Dave.

Thank you for your reply. But I do want to clarify. I am not trying to sync Address Book Groups, but rather custom-named fields from Address Book. The computer program allows you to give your own name to any of the fields on a contact's card. In the example I gave, the single contact card named "GoDaddy" has three custom labels, one for each of the contact people within the company. Something like this:
GoDaddy
Tim - xxx-xxx-xxxx
Ryan - xxx-xxx-xxxx
James - xxx-xxx-xxxx
Main: xxx-xxx-xxxx
Rather than using the standard "mobile", "fax", "home" labels, I've assigned my own values. I'm wondering (and now with significant doubts) if the blackberry will automatically sync those entries.
Soon I will be able to test it myself, but as of now I still do not have access to a blackberry to test this...

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That would be cool. But I end up launching Dymo's crap app and cutting and pasting every address into a label I want to print.

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(1) With the address selected in Address Book, got to File > Print ...
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(4) Now select "Define Custom ..." from the Page drop-down menu and give it a new name (e.g. "Dymo Address") (+At this point, the label preview on the left should look like a big shipping label still+.)
(5) Modify the margins of your custom page layout (in inches) to Top=1.200 Bottom=0.000 Left=0.500 Right=0.250
(6) Print a sample copy and adjust margins to suit your needs
If you wonder why this circuitous route works, +so do I+. If you don't want to read my proposed explanation, simply follow the steps above and stop reading. If you'd like to know what I think is happening, feel free to read on:
As best I can discern, Address Book is sending the print job to the Labelwriter, assuming the label spool is *centered on the spindle*. As you know, that's not the case. However, when you tell Address Book you're printing on a large shipping label, which takes up most of the spindle anyway, you can then adjust the margins (esp. the top margin) to print only on the "bottom half" of the shipping label. That means you've defined margins suitable to print on the actual address labels installed on the left side of the spindle.
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sync birthday from address book to ical but why can I not sync anniversary dates and custom dates from address book to ical????
how do you go about doing this? I really don't understand why it wouldn't sync all dates from address book.

Kyle,
Try Dates to iCal, by John Maisey.

Can somebody help me'....some time ago I have transfer my address from Address book to Pages, but now I don't remember how I did it...

I have a problem with address book...some tomes ago I transfered all my addresse from the Address Book to Pages. I don't remember how I could exported in the correct way, can somebody help me in this question?

Hello Gabriella,
I don't have pages, but it looks like Pages must have a built in feature...
Mail merge automatically populates custom fields with contact data from Address Book or from Numbers to create personalized documents
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pages
Then there's AddressBook Exporter...
http://gwenhiver.net/address-book-exporter.html

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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:
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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.
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