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What is the difference between Baya V2, V3, and V4?
Refer to the topic linked here.
Contacts
How to migrate contacts from my Personal Address Book in Baya V2 to Baya V4?
Keep your personal contacts in sync and updated in Baya V3. To merge contacts stored in the Personal Address book of Baya V2, you need to export it on your machine and import in Baya V2.
Export from Baya-V2
- Log in to your SyConnect account using Baya V2.
- Navigate to the Contacts application.
- On the left pane, select Personal Contacts.
- On the top pane, click the Export contacts link.
- Choose the VCF format file to be exported.
- Download the file to your machine.
- Application downloads all your personal contacts in a .VCF format file.
Import to Baya-V4
- Log in to the SkyConnect account using Baya V4.
- Navigate to the Contacts application.
- On the top pane, click the Import button.
- Click the Choose File button.
- Choose the contacts file which you have downloaded recently from Baya V2.
How to export contacts from Baya V2 to CSV or VCF file?
You can export the personal address book in CSV or VCARD format. Once exported, these contact details can be imported into a third-party app on desktops such as Outlook or Thunderbird, hosted apps such as Yahoo or Gmail, or into the native address books of mobile devices.
Baya exports address books to the following formats:
- Baya AddressBook CSV
- Outlook AddressBook CSV
- Thunderbird AddressBook CSV
- Outlook format CSV form Gmail
- Yahoo AddressBook CSV
- VCARD
The following sections explain the formats of the CSV and VCARD file.
VCARD Files
vCard is a file format standard for electronic business cards which can be easily imported to various other mail providers and mobile devices. Baya supports vCard version 3.0.
If you want to import personal/shared contacts from Baya to any mobile device, it is advised to export them in VCard file format. As all the popular mobile devices are compatible with VCard file format and import VCard file easily.
Following is the list of contact fields supported.
|
Contact Fields In Baya |
Corresponding Field In VCard File |
|---|---|
| firstname lastname |
N |
| displayname | FN, NICKNAME |
| description | NOTES |
| jobtitle | ROLE |
| company office department |
ORG |
| companyphone
companymobile companyfax companypager homephone homefax homemobile homepager |
TEL |
| companywebpage homewebpage |
URL |
| companyaddress companycity companystate companypincode companycountry homeaddress homecity homepincode homestate homecountry |
ADR |
CSV File
CSV is a common, relatively simple file format that is widely supported by consumer, business, and other applications. Each mail provider has its own format for CSV file. Baya provides you various options for exporting contacts which are compatible with other mail providers. You need to choose appropriate CSV format for exporting contacts as per your mail provider.
Export Contacts from Baya V2
- On the Personal Contacts or the Shared Contacts page, click the Export Contacts icon. Tip: You can extract required contacts from your personal contacts using search facility, and export only those contacts to create a CSV. For example: To export all the contacts having firstname/lastname ‘smith’, first search these contacts and then export into required file format.
- Choose the appropriate file format(CSV/VCARD) in which you would like to export your personal/shared contacts. And, click the Export button. Application exports all the contacts and displays a message box showing the status.
- Click the Download button to download the CSV file on your machine.
- By default, the exported file is saved in the C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\My Documents\Downloads folder.
- You can import this file into your personal mail account contacts.
How fields are mapped from various CSV files to Baya V4 Personal Contacts?
Field mapping from various CSV files to Baya Personal Contacts
| Baya Personal Contacts | Gmail CSV | Outlook CSV | Thunderbird | Yahoo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First name | First Name | First Name | First Name | First |
| Last name | Last Name | Last Name | Last Name | Last |
| Display name | – | Display Name | Display Name | Nickname |
| E-mail Address | E-mail Address | Primary Email | ||
| Description | Notes | Notes | Notes | Comments |
| Office | – | – | – | – |
| Department | Department | Department | Department | – |
| Job Title | Job Title | Job Title | Job Title | Title |
| Join date | – | – | – | – |
| End date | – | – | – | – |
| Company | Company | Company | Organization | Company |
| Company Phone | Company Main Phone | Company Main Phone | Work Phone | Work |
| Company Mobile | – | – | – | – |
| Company Fax | – | Business Fax | – | – |
| Company Pager | – | – | – | Pager |
| Company Address | Business Address | Business Street | Work Address | Work Address |
| Company City | Business City | Business City | Work City | Work City |
| Company State | Business State | Business State | Work State | Work State |
| Company Pin-code | Business Postal Code | Business Postal Code | Work ZipCode | Work ZIP |
| Company Country | Business Country | Business Country/Region | Work Country | Work Country |
| Company Web Page | Web Page | Web Page | Web Page 1 | Business Website |
| Gender | Gender | – | – | – |
| Birth-date | – | – | – | – |
| Spouse Name | Spouse | Spouse | – | – |
| Children | Children | Children | – | – |
| Anniversary | – | – | – | – |
| Home Address | Home Address | Home Street | Home Address | Home Address |
| Home City | Home City | Home City | Home City | Home City |
| Home Pin-code | Home Postal Code | Home Postal Code | Home ZipCode | Home Zip |
| Home State | Home State | Home State | Home State | Home State |
| Home Country | Home Country | Home Country/Region | Home Country | Home Country |
| Home Pager | Pager | Pager | – | – |
| Home Phone | Home Phone | Home Phone | Home Phone | Home |
| Home Fax | Home Fax | Home Fax | – | – |
| Home Mobile | Mobile Phone | Mobile Phone | Mobile Number | Mobile |
| Home Web Page | – | – | – | Personal Website |
How fields are mapped from VCF file to Baya V4 Personal Contacts?
Field mapping from VCARD file to Baya Personal Contacts
|
VCARD Field Name |
Baya Contacts Field Name |
|---|---|
| FN | Display Name |
| N | First Name Last Name |
| ORG | Company |
| ADR | Home City Home Country Home Pin-code Home State Home Address Company City Company Country Company Pin-code Company State Company Address |
| TEL | Home MobileHome Fax
Home Phone Company Mobile Company Fax Company Phone |
| ANNIVERSARY | Anniversary |
| BDAY | Birth-Date |
| GENDER | Gender |
| NICKNAME | Display Name |
| NOTE | Description |
| TITLE | Job Title |
| URL | Company Webpage Home Webpage |
Sample VCARD File:
| VCARD File | Baya Address Book |
|---|---|
| BEGIN:VCARDVERSION:3.0
FN:Deepa Sharma N:Sharma;Deepa;;; EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET;TYPE=WORK:deepa@acmecorp.co.in TEL;TYPE=WORK;TYPE=FAX:020-66660003 TEL;TYPE=CELL:9822900010 TEL;TYPE=WORK:020-66660004 ADR;TYPE=WORK:;;Rajiv Gandhi IT Park\, Hinjewadi\nPune 411044;;;; TITLE:HR Asst END:VCARD |
Display Name= Deepa SharmaLast Name= Sharma
First Name= Deepa E-mail= deepa@acmecorp.co.in Company Fax= 020-66660003 Company Mobile= 9822900010 Company Phone= 020-66660004 Company Address= Rajiv Gandhi IT Park Hinjewadi Company City= Pune Company Pin-Code= 411044 Job Title= HR Asst |
How to import contacts into third-party apps?
Importing a VCard file
Refer to the following links for
Importing VCard file into Gmail contacts
Importing VCard file into Yahoo contacts
Importing VCF file into Windows
Importing contacts in Thunderbird
Importing a CSV file
The following table provides you links explaining steps for importing contacts by CSV file and type of CSV formatted file supported as per mail provider.
Example: To import contacts into Gmail, choose the Outlook CSV format for Gmail option.
| Web Client | Reference Link | CSV Format To Be Chosen |
|---|---|---|
| Gmail | Import and save the contacts list to your gmail account | Outlook CSV format for Gmail |
| Yahoo | Import-Export Contacts in Yahoo account | Yahoo AddressBook CSV |
| Desktop Client | Reference Link | CSV Format To Be Chosen |
|---|---|---|
| Outlook | Import- Export Contacts in windows | Outlook AddressBook CSV |
| Thunderbird | Import-export contacts in Thunderbird | Thunderbird AddressBook CSV |
Calendar
How to migrate Calendar events from Baya V2 to Baya V4?
Export from Baya V2
- Log in to your SkyConnect account using Baya V2.
- Navigate to the Calendar application
- On the left pane, click the down arrow next to the Calendar from which events need to be exported.
- Click the Export Calendar option from the list.
- Choose the appropriate date range to download events. Application downloads the events in the .ics format file.
Import into Baya V4
- Log in to your SkyConnect account using Baya 4.
- Navigate to the Calendar application.
- On the top pane, click the Import button.
- Click the Choose File button.
- Choose the .ics file which you have downloaded recently from Baya V2.