Why can't Address Book allow me to add "spouse" to the print job?

Nope, no dice. Can you confirm that the only thing needed to turn this functionality on is adding the ABRelatedNamesConfig file to the Resources folder?

Ramon

Hi,

The only other thing to check is that the Country Code is the same for both. After selecting the card and clicking on edit, the Country Code can be checked or changed by clicking on the address label (home, work, etc.) and moving the mouse down to "Change Address Format..." You'll see a long list of countries. If the cards for Jane and John don't have the same country code, the label won't show both names. They would also need to be either Canada, France, the UK or US for it to work.

It's unlikely that they would be different, but I can't think of anything else.

Jay

Just asking, did you Quit AB before adding it?

You have to quit the Address Book (or Contacts in later versions of OS X) before adding the plist file to the Resources folder. It might be a good idea to restart your computer as well. Although I don't think that is needed it couldn't hurt.

You don't need to close and reopen AB after changing the country in "Address Format."

Jay

Thanks Jay, I was actually wondering why it didn't work for felciano 🙂

Hi BDAqua,

We'll see what feliciano says. It is a mystery why it doesn't work. I can' think of anything else that would need to be set up. It may be a lost cause in Yosemite.

Jay

Well it looks to be working now. Unfortunately I changed a bunch of things, any of which may have fixed the issue:

1. I recreated the plist file from scratch
2. I restarted my Mac
3. I restarted Contacts (implicitly, by rebooting)

So I can't tell exactly what fixed it, but it definitely works now on Mavericks. Thank you for your help!

Ramon

That's great! Did you quit and re-open Contacts since putting the plist file in Resources? If not, that is probably what fixed it. I think the plist file is read (or run?) when Contacts is opened.

Now if we could figure out why it doesn't work in Yosemite.

Jay

What do you know...

I recreated the plist file and this time is showed up as a plist document on my desktop. When I tried it before the document had a text Wrangler icon. I put the new plist file in the Resources folder (running Yosemite) and it worked!!. I don't know what I did to change the file type.

Jay

I investigated it a little more. If I copy the plist from this thread in Safari and paste it into TextWrangler, it doesn't work. I have another copy in a Pages document. If I copy the plist info from it and paste it into TestWrangler, it does work. Nothing was changed when I created or saved the two documents. Perhaps someone more familiar with this will shed some light on it.

Anyway, the following screen shot shows the icons as they appear on my desktop. One works, the other doesn't:

As is all too common with Jive, the pic isn't showing here at all. 😟

The fist one was jpeg, this is tiff Does it show up?

-Jay

More basic - what is Jive?

Both pictures show up using Safari.

Jive is this forum's software, & it's really buggy, many great helpers have just quit because of it's difficulties... pics still don't show, sorry.

Thanks BDAqua,

If tyou can't see the previous attachment, the icon for the file that works is just a blank, white image with PLIST written on it. The one that doesn't work has a big W (for TextWrangler) on it. I'm pretty sure the text from the html from page 1 of this contains lots of hidden characters. If you copy it and paste it into a TextEdit document you'll see that there are what appear to be extra spaces or tabs. If you clean it all up and then save it as a Unicode (UTF-8) file it will work just fine.

-Jay