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Re: How to hide a field of CContactDatabase

pirosl — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:19:02 +0200

As far as I know you can't hide fields from templates from Phonebook application (as Phonebook application will just ignore that flag).
Though you can hide custom fields.....

But really this has to be tested between UI platforms (UIQ/S60 2nd and 3rd edition)....

Re: How to hide a field of CContactDatabase

Girish Sharma — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:13:09 +0200

Thanks for the reply.So theres is no way to hide the contact item field from the Phone book application it seems as its going to read all the Contact database entries hidden or not ?

Re: How to hide a field of CContactDatabase

pirosl — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:09:31 +0200

You'll have to use SetHidden.....but..in the case of Phonebook application the that field will be still shown (if it's a standard field).

Re: How to hide a field of CContactDatabase

Girish Sharma — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:07:51 +0200

Ok heres is the problem scenario . I add a new contact with 4 fields say Name , second name , Mobile Home and Mobile Office. I do this by using APIs CContactItemField and CContactItem . I want this contact to show only the Mobile Home and not the Mobile Office when the Phonebook application of the phone is opened to see the contacts. So in short can we hide some fields of a contact item ?
Regards
G

Re: How to hide a field of CContactDatabase

pirosl — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:12:22 +0200

There are multiple questions......Do you want to hide contact items or fields?

Re: How to hide a field of CContactDatabase

Girish Sharma — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:30:59 +0200

Hi
I would like to hide one of the fields of the Contact item from the Phone book application. Is it possible ? As I guess the Set Hidden ()attribute of the CContactItemField makes it hidden only from CContactFilteredView where we explicitly mention that we dont want hidden entries.
Regards
G

Re: How to hide a field of CContactDatabase

asnetvirtual — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:03:29 +0200

I have same problem. I want hide contact item with phone book default and read in my contacts. Pls help me. Thanx

Re: How to hide a field of CContactDatabase

shobhit — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:17:54 +0200

Hi Pirosl,

i am working on symbian seris 60 second edition FP2 platform.

i just added one field like telephone to the native symbian phone book app from my own app with setting it into hidden mode. But default Phone book app is not hiding this field.

as you told default phone book igonres hidden attribute for some of the field could you please tell me which fields it does not ignore.

thanks a lot

Re: How to hide a field of CContactDatabase

pirosl — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:27:18 +0200

On what platform are you working on? And for what field are you setting the hidden attribute?
As far as i know the default phone book will ignore hidden attribute for certain fields..

Re: How to hide a field of CContactDatabase

shobhit — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:27:57 +0200

Hi Pirosl

The contact item is added in to the native phone book application from my application.
i want to hide field of this item from my application.
So when i launch native symbian phone book application this contact item field should be in hidden mode.

i used SetHidden(ETrue) function of class CContactItemField but it is not working

Re: How to hide a field of CContactDatabase

pirosl — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:37:06 +0200

And i'm asking you again.....those fields will be hidden in default phone book? Or in your phone book application?
And what exactly do you mean by it's not working? Can you give more details?

Re: How to hide a field of CContactDatabase

shobhit — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:46:28 +0200

Hi,
i have added one contact item from my application to default phone book application with some fields. i want to hide one of the field.

i want to know is is it possible and how?

Re: How to hide a field of CContactDatabase

pirosl — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:42:27 +0200

Hide for who? For the default phone book application?For your application?
What exactly do you mean by "it'n norking"? When you retrieve back the contact item the field does not have the hidden property set to true? Or?

How to hide a field of CContactDatabase

shobhit — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:26:33 +0200