Novell GroupWise Address Book - Revision history

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‎Format

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The '''Novell GroupWise Address Book''' format (NAB) is used by Novell GroupWise software to store, import, and export address books for the email, newsgroup, and calendar features of this software.

== Format ==

It is an [[ASCII]]-based format, [[CSV]] with quotes around field values.

The first line is like this:

<code>:::TAGMAP:::OFFE0003:***,3001001E:Name,3A06001E:First Name,3A11001E:Last Name,</code>

The documentation of this format at Novell's site warns users not to change the part before the first comma in this line; if it is actually invariant in all files it might be a means of detecting the format. The remaining fields can be added, dropped, or rearranged, including standard and user-defined fields. The hexadecimal digits before the field name are [[MAPI]] tags.

The first field consists of the letter "C" for company entries, "U" for user entries, or "R" for resource entries. They are supposeed to be stored in the order "C", then "U", then "R" so they can be properly linked. There are also groups enclosed by G> and <G tags.

== Links ==
* [https://www.novell.com/documentation/gw65/?page=/documentation/gw65/gw65_userwin/data/aal3hdb.html Importing and exporting addresses and address books] (has some documentation on their format)
* [https://www.novell.com/documentation/groupwise18/gw18_guide_userwin/data/contacts_workaddbook.html?view=print Working with address books]

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 The first line begins like this:
-<code>:::TAGMAP:::0FFE0003:***,3001001E:Name,3A06001E:First Name,3A11001E:Last Name,</code> along with other header values.
+<code>:::TAGMAP:::0FFE0003:***,3001001E:Name,3A06001E:First Name,3A11001E:Last Name,</code> along with other header values<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20001213015100/http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/gwmag/html/more_address_book_stuff.html</ref>.
 The documentation of this format at Novell's site warns users not to change the part before the first comma in this line; if it is actually invariant in all files it might be a means of detecting the format. The remaining fields can be added, dropped, or rearranged, including standard and user-defined fields. The hexadecimal digits before the field name are [[MAPI]] tags.
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 The first field consists of the letter "C" for company entries, "U" for user entries, or "R" for resource entries. They are supposed to be stored in the order "C", then "U", then "R" so they can be properly linked. There are also groups enclosed by G> and <G tags.
-Early versions are plain ascii, but later versions used [[UTF-8]].
+Early versions are plain ascii, but later versions used [[UTF-8]]<ref>https://www.novell.com/documentation/groupwise2014r2/gw2014_guide_userwin/data/contacts_workaddbook.html</ref>.
 == Links ==
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 * [https://www.novell.com/documentation/groupwise18/gw18_guide_userwin/data/contacts_workaddbook.html?view=print Working with address books]
 * [https://www.novell.com/documentation/groupwise18/gw18_guide_userwin/data/contacts_workaddbook.html#contacts_workaddbook_importexport Import/export info]

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 The first field consists of the letter "C" for company entries, "U" for user entries, or "R" for resource entries. They are supposed to be stored in the order "C", then "U", then "R" so they can be properly linked. There are also groups enclosed by G> and <G tags.
-Early versions are plain ascii, but later versions used UTF-8.
+Early versions are plain ascii, but later versions used [[UTF-8]].
 == Links ==

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