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---+++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
         * <img src="%ATTACHURLPATH%/apub1.png" style="wikiautogen"/>
      6. Click "Create".
      7. As result the publication will be created.
         * <img src="%ATTACHURLPATH%/apub2.png" style="wikiautogen"/>
   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:

<verbatim>
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
</verbatim>



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