How to reflect changes to Address Book entries?

Question

I have 2 SL clients connected to a SL server with Address Book bound. But when I make a change to the one my "Office Contacts" entries, the change doesn't get reflected anywhere (only locally). Even if I make the change in Workgroup Manager, I still have to remove the old entry from Address Book and re-add it so that the new information is displayed. Shouldn't changes to an Open Directory user "Info" be reflected in Address Book?

Answer 1

OK. Note that I haven't got 10.7, so haven't tested it on 10.7
Start by making a backup copy of the Address Book data. You will probably need to use Finder's Go/Go to folder to navigate to Library in your Home directory, and look in it's Application Support folder to make a copy of the Address Book folder.
Then run Script Editor, paste in this script and click Run. It should find any numbers that match your spec, and display to you what it will be changed to. When you are happy with the changes being offered click Cancel instead of OK and, in the script, put -- (two minus signs) before the line
display dialog (NewNumb as text) and remove the -- from the line below it. Run the script again and it should make the changes.
--Change phone numbers beginning with 041 11 to 041 11 9
--AK July 2012
tell application "Address Book"
          repeat with Acontact in people
                    repeat with APhone in phones of Acontact
                              if (value of APhone as text) starts with "041 11" then
                                        set NewNumb to (value of APhone as text)
                                        set NewNumb to characters 7 thru -1 of NewNumb
                                        set NewNumb to "041 11 9" & NewNumb
  display dialog (NewNumb as text)
  --set value of APhone to NewNumb
                              end if
                    end repeat
          end repeat
end tell