Address book birthdays

[Alasdair]

Lots of my contacts are couples and I'm asking if anyone knows how
to put two birthdays on one card. Otherwise I can see me ending up
with three cards - one for each individual, and one as a couple for
Christmas, say. (I'm glad I haven't got one offspring with 6
grandchildren..... ) Can anyone suggest a solution without too much
gobble-geekery, please?

[Benjamin Stanley]

Individual records for each and use groups for couples/families?

lawrance group
alasdair
hannah

stanley family group
tony
marian
georgia
ben, 8th december BTW :-)

any good?


2009/5/21 Alasdair <alawr...@me.com>:

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47-49 Loveday Street, Birmingham, B4 6NR
Telephone: 0121 333 6860 www.trilby.co.uk

[Dom Barnes]

And what year would that be Ben?

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[alawr...@me.com]

That still means individual cards for each, Ben. What I really want
is the "+" and "-" signs for 'Birthday' category, like you can add a
phone number or e-mail, so that it puts a reminder in iCal, too. Btw,
what do you want for your birthday, Ben? And the rest of the family?
(Dates required)

On 21 May, 21:43, Benjamin Stanley <ben...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Individual records for each and use groups for couples/families?
>
> lawrance group
>   alasdair
>   hannah
>
> stanley family group
>   tony
>   marian
>   georgia
>   ben, 8th december BTW :-)
>
> any good?
>

> 2009/5/21 Alasdair <alawran...@me.com>:

[Benjamin Stanley]

Choose Preferences form the Address Book menu

Click on the Template tab

From the Add Field drop down choose Dates

A new date line will appear initially called Anniversary

Click on the name and choose custom, you can then call it Birthday 2, Birthday 3 and so on. 

Only problem is who is birthday one and who is birthday 2?

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[Marc Carter]

Were you being funny?  Instead of 'Birthday 1' and 'Birthday 2' how about putting the persons name?  Not sure if you were joking!

[Drew Reece]

To make the Anniversary field say "Fred Bloggs" you would need to create that in the preferences as a unique field - what a mess, it also doesn't show the anniversaries iCal.

It seems like you have a unique idea of what a person is. One person has one birthday, and one Address Book card is one person (or company). 

Use groups as Ben mentioned to create families. Hold 'alt' to see what groups a card belongs to. 

It really is easier to use the freaking system as it was intended! :^)

Re:co

[Dom Barnes]

HRH The Queen has two birthdays. 

Just sayin'

Dom Barnes

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[Patrick Neame]

Will you be sending her a card on both days?

[Robert Justham]

Better not send it to HRH - on either day!