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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon m-i-n-a-r

Double import/sync contacts

Open albertopasqualetto opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

First of all if I import my contacts twice, then the favourites are deleted.

Then, I think it would be wonderful having a sync between contacts and Birday, so if I add the year in Birday, then it will reflect to my contacts and vice versa, same thing if I add a new contact.

Besides from this, it is a very good app!

albertopasqualetto avatar Sep 02 '22 22:09 albertopasqualetto

Regarding the first point, if a new contact is inserted and a duplicate is detected, the duplicate is overwritten (wich Is useful when importing multiple times from contacts), i'll see if i can keep the favorite status.

Birday can't write to contacts and i don't want ask more dangerous permissions. I Will only add an automatic synchronization from contacts to Birday 🙂

m-i-n-a-r avatar Sep 05 '22 12:09 m-i-n-a-r

That's a good idea. Thanks!

albertopasqualetto avatar Sep 05 '22 14:09 albertopasqualetto

Auto-sync is now part of the experimental options, and it works as it should. Regarding the favorite status, i found no way to keep it when a duplicate is detected. I have to decide if an imported event has priority over a duplicate, already saved, event. At the time of writing, and as you wrote, the app consider any imported duplicate as the source of truth and overwrite the local copy. Feel free to reopen the issue if you have any suggestion

m-i-n-a-r avatar Nov 11 '22 22:11 m-i-n-a-r

Good! When will the new version be released on play store?

albertopasqualetto avatar Nov 11 '22 23:11 albertopasqualetto

It's currently in the beta channel (waiting for Google approval) and I'll release it in the stable channel later this month!

m-i-n-a-r avatar Nov 12 '22 09:11 m-i-n-a-r

Thanks!

albertopasqualetto avatar Nov 12 '22 09:11 albertopasqualetto

I'm not sure to understand why the source of truth matters for the favorite status.

If a contact is set as favorite in the contact app, is it supposed to be a favorite in the birday app?

  1. If yes, right now, it does not seem to work when I import them from Contacts. Also, in that case, could you add an extra option on this experimental feature? The idea would be to have a toggle to let the favorites items be considered as source of truth (to avoid removing the favorite status) and for the rest keep the imported contact as source of truth.

  2. If not, why not just update the birday contacts with imported contact as a source of truth and just leave the favorite status as it is?

NinjaShiroi avatar Jun 09 '23 00:06 NinjaShiroi