How to publish Addressbook contacts? ODS Addressbook offers the feature to publish contacts items: Go to Preferences. Go to Publications. Click "New Publication". In the shown form enter the parameters as follows: Name: then name of the publication Select "Refresh type": manually after any entry is changed every [n] hours /days Select "Destination Type": WebDAV path URL Enter username and password if needed. Options (Filter - What contacts to be accepted?) Include with Tags Exclude with Tags Here is sample scenario how to publish contacts: Login at http://myopenlink.net:8890/ods/ as user demo Go to its Addressbook Go to Preferences -> Publications -> New Publication In the shown form enter: Name: My contacts Publication Refresh type: every 1 hour Source type: URL WebDAV path/URL: http://demo.openlinksw.com/DAV/home/demo/mycontacts.txt Username and password: demo

Click "Create". As result the publication will be created.

You can click the "Sync" button in order to force synchronization. As result the Status should be shown as "OK" and also should be shown the date of execution. 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