%VOSWARNING% ---+++How to publish Addressbook contacts? ODS Addressbook offers the feature to publish contacts items: 1. Go to Preferences. 2. Go to Publications. 3. Click "New Publication". 4. In the shown form enter the parameters as follows: 1. Name: then name of the publication 2. Select "Refresh type": 1. manually 2. after any entry is changed 3. every [n] hours /days 3. Select "Destination Type": 1. WebDAV path 2. URL 4. Enter username and password if needed. 5. Options (Filter - What contacts to be accepted?) 1. Include with Tags 2. Exclude with Tags Here is sample scenario how to publish contacts: 1 Login at http://myopenlink.net:8890/ods/ as user demo 1 Go to its Addressbook 1 Go to Preferences -> Publications -> New Publication 1 In the shown form enter: 1. Name: My contacts Publication 2. Refresh type: every 1 hour 3. Source type: URL 4. WebDAV path/URL: http://demo.openlinksw.com/DAV/home/demo/mycontacts.txt 5. Username and password: demo * 6. Click "Create". 7. As result the publication will be created. * 1 You can click the "Sync" button in order to force synchronization. 1 As result the Status should be shown as "OK" and also should be shown the date of execution. 1 Let's check what is the content of the created file: BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 REV:2007-05-18T10:52:43.000-04:00 UID:14F2619C-13E0-11DD-98DF-FD73DD4D8578@localhost NICKNAME:test TS:-12 END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 REV:2008-10-08T16:24:43.000-04:00 UID:243474B0-9577-11DD-98DF-FD73DD4D8578@localhost NICKNAME:Kingsley END:VCARD CategoryODS CategoryOpenSource CategoryAddressBook CategoryOdsAddressBook