Using the address book export feature of Baya, you can keep your personal address books in other apps and devices update.
Baya can be used to export the personal address book in a variety of CSV and VCard formats.
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 files.
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. 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 consumers, businesses, and other applications. Each mail provider has its own format for CSV files. Baya provides you various options for exporting contacts that are compatible with other mail providers. You need to choose the appropriate CSV format for exporting contacts as per your mail provider.
Export Contacts from Baya V2
- On the Personal Contacts page, click the Export Contacts icon. Tip: You can extract required contacts from your personal contacts using a 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 a 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.