KDEPIM and Libre Office
Thomas Hejze <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.users.pim |
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Hi, I use KDEPIM for more than 15 years and I have always been maintaining my adressbook, not only for E-Mail but also "snail mail" (as it is called sometimes). I run a small enterprise, my customers are in my KDE adressbook and yes, there are still letters to be written on paper. My current problem is the integration into Libre Office. I remember once it was possible to connect to KDE-Adressbook from Libre Office by database connection, but for some reason this functionality got lost. Currently I use the following workaround: 1) Export the data to a csv file. 2) Create a database connection in Libre Office to that file. 3) In case of updates: rewrite that specific csv file. This workaround has two big disadvantages: First, this is a very static solution, which requires a lot of extra maintainance work. Second, the libre office database connection has a problem with special characters (üöäß), so data are not provided correctly. There is no way to set the correct codepage (except maybe by sophisticated macro programming). AFAIK Akonadi is nothing else but some sort of database management system on top of mariadb. So I wonder, what would necessary to make Libre Office connect to KDEPIM (again). Currently Libre Office offers the following types of adressbook connections: - Firefox/Iceweasel - Thunderbird/Icedove - dBase - JDBC - Groupwise - Evolution LDAP - Table/CSV - Text - MySQL - ODBC Responses to my email are very appreciated. Best regards Thomas Hejze