4.3. Importing clients from Apple Contacts
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4.3. Importing clients from Apple Contacts

Apple Contacts (known as Address Book before OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion) is widely used on macOS to manage contact details but since Fanurio runs on multiple platforms it can't rely on it to store contact details for its clients. To fix this problem, you can import contacts from Apple Contacts into Fanurio.

4.3.1. How import works

Fanurio allows you to import contacts stored in Apple Contacts as clients easily. Just go to File » Import » Import Clients ... and choose Apple Contacts as the import source. The import window will not display contacts that have been already imported to prevent you from importing the same contact twice.

The following table shows how Fanurio maps Apple Contacts fields to its own fields. As a rule, it tries to get the information that it needs from work fields. If the work field is empty, it will try to use the home field but if that is empty too, it will use an empty text.

Table 4.4. Apple Contacts field mapping to Fanurio

Client Field (Fanurio) Contact Field (Apple Contacts)

Name

 Company name or contact display name

Attention

 Contact display name
Address Work street address or home street address
City Work city name or home city name
State Work state name or home state name
Zip Work zip code or home zip code
Country Work country name or home country name
Phone Work phone number or home phone numner
Fax Work fax number or home fax number
Mobile Mobile phone number or iPhone number
Other Main phone number
Email Work email address or home email address
Website Home page address

4.3.2. Syncing Fanurio with Apple Contacts

Once you import a client in Fanurio, you can keep it in sync with Apple Contacts by ctrl-clicking it and selecting Update from Apple Contacts from the contextual menu. If a client is imported from Apple Contacts, the contextual menu has two more actions Show Contact in Apple Contacts and Edit Contact in Apple Contacts.

Please note that a client is not updated automatically in Fanurio when its contact is updated in Apple Contacts, it must be updated manually. All updates are one way only, from Apple Contacts to Fanurio. If you change the contact details of a client in Fanurio (unlikely if you use Apple Contacts) they won't be sent to Apple Contacts when you update it using Update from Apple Contacts from the contextual menu.

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