CardBook :: Reviews :: Add-ons for Thunderbird

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

by Saphir-production on Feb. 18, 2018 · permalink

It's a really nice addon which can do a lot if you found out how it works. The categories are very nice to sort all of the contacs but after setting them a few times I give it up. They allways get deleted and I spend a lot of time for nothing. Since more than a year now it's not working.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (26.8).

by Philippe V. (Developer) on Feb. 21, 2018 · permalink

this is due to the Google CardDAV API which is buggy...

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by R_A_F on Feb. 13, 2018 · permalink

if CardBook is active mailing lists don't show up in the contacts sidebar

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (26.7).

by Philippe V. (Developer) on Feb. 14, 2018 · permalink

by email please : cardbook.thunderbird@gmail.com

Edit : this was due to an incompatibility with an addon (for the moment unidentified)

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by BurkoJames on Feb. 9, 2018 · permalink

Most of my collegues use Outlook, so having a vCard-compliant address book works well, allowing me to send contact info and vice versa. The ability to add secondary emails to contacts directly, without copy/paste is also great. A current lack of documentation however hurts its role as a power user upgrade.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (26.5).

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Firefox user c355f8 on Feb. 1, 2018 · permalink

Hi,

first: thanks for cardbook. Works as advertized for my Thunderbird on Linux.

Having said that, I want to comment on the person who wanted documentation on video (" There are no videos on YouTube or Vimeo about this extension").

In my opinion video is about the worst vehicle to communicate this kind of information. Facts that you can assimilate by glancing at a text page for just a few seconds, take much, much longer if you have to sit through a video of several minutes or even longer.

Therefore, if you decide to create documentation, please do it in text first...

My two cents.

Paai

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (26.1).

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by JC on Jan. 30, 2018 · permalink

J'utilise MyPhoneExplorer pour synchroniser mes contacts entre TB et mon téléphone. MPE ne sachant pas exporter au format vcf V4.0, seul reconnu par CardBook, je passe par le format csv.
Et il y a 2 fonctions que j'ai pas trouvées quand j'Importe en cvs dans CardBook :
1/ un champ "neutre" pour les colonnes à ignorer
2/ la possibilité de sauvegarder la correspondance des colonnes. Ce qui éviterait d'avoir à sélectionner les champs correspondants aux colonnes importées (29 dans mon cas) à chaque fois.
Merci

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (26.1).

by Philippe V. (Developer) on Feb. 1, 2018 · permalink

dans la version 26.2 (qui est toujours en cours de validation chez Mozilla), vous devriez trouver ces deux fonctionnalités :O)... si vous êtes pressé contactez moi par mail ;O)

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

by Richard Gomes on Jan. 27, 2018 · permalink

It's clear that a lot of work was spent by the developer, putting sheer attention to details, delivering a product which looks professional and complete.

However, there's no documentation at all.
There are no videos on YouTube or Vimeo about this extension.

Anyone first arriving to the product will be confused by so many things to configure and/or tweek... and will only see an empty list of contacts, which is something absolutely useless.

Ideally, the extension should infer some useful CardDAV servers, from the email accounts I have configured. So, if I have a gmail account, chances are that I have contacts there... and the extension should try to access them.

As I said: the extension looks great and extremely professional. However, after 15 minutes spent with it, visiting forums and trying to find documentation... nothing happened. And I simply uninstalled it.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (26.0).

by Philippe V. (Developer) on Feb. 1, 2018 · permalink

Hi

you're completely right : documentation is one of my next priority... after having been installed CardBook proposes to import your contacts from the Thunderbird standard address books and it's a very good idea to also propose to download contacts corresponding to your email address ;O)

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by denikl on Jan. 27, 2018 · permalink

This addon is a good choice to synchronize your addressbooks with CardDAV. Works perfectly with owncloud / nextcloud.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (26.0).

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by NABIL OMERIN on Jan. 22, 2018 · permalink

J'ai installé sur Thunderbird 52.5.2 version EN deux extensions : Ce module (CardBook) &amp; un autre module agenda (Lightning).
Cardbook est toujours en Francais alors que mon Thunderbird est en Anglais. Si je désactive le module d'agenda, CardBoook devient en anglais.
Vraiment c'est étrange !
y'à t-il une solution pour conserver les deux modules et que CadrBook soit en anglais ?

--------------------------------Soucis Résolu-----------------------------------

CardBook ne semble pas être en cause.
J'ai installé de nouveau Thunderbird, et j'ai ajouté ce module et ça fonctionne correctement.
Je vous remercie Philippe pour votre suivi.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (26.0).

by Philippe V. (Developer) on Jan. 22, 2018 · permalink

étrange problème... essayez d'installer l'addon Simple Locale Switcher pour voir dans quelle langue vous êtes vraiment... avez vous des erreurs dans la console CTRL+SHIFT+J ? (la suite par email : cardbook.thunderbird@gmail.com)

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Firefox user 4e3dbb on Jan. 20, 2018 · permalink

extremely useful!

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (25.9).

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by llucps on Jan. 8, 2018 · permalink

Hi Philippe,

I updated to version 25.4 and cardbook has stopped working with the same Thunderbird 58 beta 2 that I've been using with the previous cardbook versions.

Is it me?

Thanks

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (25.4). This user has 4 previous reviews of this add-on.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by pdl86 on Jan. 6, 2018 · permalink

Nice add-on, very customisable ( types, new attributes) , import / export.
with large number of contact (1600+) some operations can be slow (i.e. mass change of a category), even "never ending" , but a stop and restaet has solved the issue .
anyway it seems to better to stop / restart afte r a massive change or load .

how to configure SIP usage ?

solved : the VOIP agent ( in my case jitsi) has already registered a SIP handler in Windows
hence , "just" declare a new IMPP N-uplets , under "Telephone" , as
code : SIP ,
label : SIP ,
protocol : sip
( the important thing is the protocol)

then add you numbers to contacts, including the prefix ( if there is a needed prefix ) ex 0 xx xx xx xx xx of outside national call , 0 00 xx xxx xx xx for Int'all call ( from france)

so it works fine

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (25.4).

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by Proton91 on Jan. 3, 2018 · permalink

Hi Philippe,

The first contact with the module: I lost ALL my iCloud contacts because I just activated the Read/Write mode. Workaround: Read mode and reload the iCloud server archive of my contacts. All is perfect in read mode: easy to use,
I would like to use the read/write mode but I would like to know how to use this mode without angst.
One more thing, the iClouds groups are not managed (they are not displayed)
Good module the synchronisation from my devices is perfect.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (25.2). This user has a previous review of this add-on.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

by Tim Grady on Dec. 29, 2017 · permalink

The add-on appears to be quite powerful, but I am unable to find any documentation for it at all. The User interface is not sufficiently facile that it's obvious how to perform certain functions, such as importing the Thunderbird address book, or syncing multiple instances of CardBook.

The greatest tool in the world is literally almost useless if users can't tell how to use it.