Zimbra and Contacts

[bravedreamer]

Hi

I'm interested in reading out the data of Zimbra and do some synchronization (Exchange and Zimbra). For the moment, I just want to read out the contacts. I use as basis a connector which connects Zimbra and Funambol. The whole communication with Zimbra is just solved within this connector. So I don't have to think about.

The general retrieve of the contacts works perfect. It seems only that there is something wrong with the creation date. If I create a contact and modify it later on, the creation date is the same as the modification date.

Therefore my question: when I change a contact information in Zimbra, does Zimbra deletes the contact and reallocates a new one??

thanks for your help.

[dkarp]

Originally Posted by bravedreamer

The general retrieve of the contacts works perfect. It seems only that there is something wrong with the creation date. If I create a contact and modify it later on, the creation date is the same as the modification date.

Therefore my question: when I change a contact information in Zimbra, does Zimbra deletes the contact and reallocates a new one??

Zimbra doesn't track creation date, just the time the contact's fields were last modified.

[bravedreamer]

Hmmm... okay. This would explain my results.

Just to confirm: a normal contact received via SOAP would look similar to this one

<cn d='1207217689000'
ms='332269'
md='1207217689'
f=''
t=''
fileAsStr='Blabla, blabla'
l='7'
id='7980'
rev='332269'>
<a n='firstName'>Blabla</a>
<a n='lastName'>blabla</a>
</cn>

An now, Zimbra sets both dates (md and d) to the same value!?! What is the reason for that bahavior?

Because I would be interested in those contacts that were change since a certain point in time...

[dkarp]

'd' is the date the content of the contact was last changed. Change the firstName, the company, etc. and 'd' will change.

'md' is the date that the metadata on the contact was last changed. Move the contact, tag it, etc. and 'md' will change. (Note that a content change also qualifies as a metadata change.)

Please see ZimbraServer/docs/soap.txt for more details on this. And see ZimbraServer/docs/sync.txt for Zimbra's built-in sync infrastructure.

[gambo]

Originally Posted by dkarp

'd' is the date the content of the contact was last changed. Change the firstName, the company, etc. and 'd' will change.

How can i get the d value from an LmcContact object?

[dkarp]

Please use ZMailbox instead of LmcContact.

[gambo]

I solved adding MailConstants.A_MODIFIED_DATE to LmcContact