I’m working on a program that allows users to cycle through a variety of contacts in a list viewer. Once a user finds a contact that they want to establish a business relationship with, I want them to be able to export the contact to a vcard (vcf) file so that they can place the contact in their actual phone address book. Has anyone else done something like this? I’ve looked in the forum by I don’t see anything on this topic. I’m looking for a suggestion about how to do this. I have the format of the final file. I just don’t know how to get the info out of the app and into the file. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Jim, If you try the project I linked above, it’ll open a fake contact card – or at least, it does on iPhone, and then there’s an ‘add contact’ button at the end. :slight_smile: It’s proof of principle that it’ll work, not yet a working version. Good night, @muneer! :slight_smile: (updated - also on Android/Kindle, although I had to click ‘open’ after it downloaded.)

@jim.malmberg38 @catsarisky I updated the project to make it workable. I found that in Android, it did not accept the file after being downloaded. I can see it and see that all information is saved but the contact app on the phone doesn’t want to import it. I searched in the net and found that a vCard file is not a text but it is actually a binary file (8 bit bytes or extended ASCII) so I had to try different file formats and found that my phone accepted the generated file when I used file type of application/octet-stream. I need you to test it so we can say it works on different phones. Export vCard If it works, I’ll put it as part of the WDC so people can benefit from it. Emoorted vCard Example [Screenshot_20210517_143217]

Good job @muneer, it works well for me.

My iphone asks if it should download but does not open it. It’s possible you need some OS-specific code, since it was working for iphone yesterday. Updated: Yep. My phone wants this as the file-type instead: [image] Also, I think you have first and last names reversed?

@catsarisky Thank you for the confirmation about file types. I’ll check on my end to see if it works for Android too. I saw that the names are reversed but as it is a proof of concept and didn’t bother to fix it. Thanks again. [Update] Yes, I tested the file type “text/vcard” and it works for Android too.

HTML file required for the app [image] film_projector WDC #15 "Show Thunkable" Creator Lounge Without the “pointing out” of what was broken I would have kept trying and nothing accomplished by now. Many thanks for your prompt response. The app requires an HTML file See attached Create-file.txt (1.9 KB)

Thanks for posting it! @jim.malmberg38 , if you have questions on how to use @muneer’s work, post 'em and we’ll get you squared away. To summarize what I think you need to do: Muneer’s prototype takes text inputs. Use his work as a model to plug in your google sheets values instead. If you want to include additional information (address, company, etc), you’ll just need to look up the VCARD standard and pass that in as well. Note that content-data needs to be url-encoded. You can see where Muneer did it for spaces (and carriage returns around the BEGIN and END text). If you expect other problem characters, you’ll need to do the same. You’ll need to put the file he provided somewhere on the internet, with a .html ending. There are free options, including github, blogger, etc, that will let you serve an HTML file with built-in javascript. You need to update the URL in muneer’s example to point at that URL. I’d also consider adding some basic HTML content so that the user doesn’t get a blank screen in the browser.

Many thanks for the explanation. See a vCard sample file attached vcard-format.txt (909 Bytes)

Sorry for the late response. I just tried this and it downloaded it. Txt file to my phone. I changed it to vcf and tried to imported but that didn’t work. What am I doing wrong here?

Which version of the project are you using? And what type of phone? You aren’t trying to install muneer’s createfile.txt as a vcf are you? (Sorry if that’s a silly question - I find it good to rule out the easy problems first.)

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