Relationship Completer

v1.1.1 (coming soon)

Requirements

Max OS X 10.4+

Download and Installation

Download Relationship Completer
Place the plugin in /Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/ (to make the plugin available to all users of your Mac) or in ~/Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/ (where ~ is your home directory, to make the plugin only available to you)
Restart Address Book if it is running.

Description

Let’s say you have the two Address Book entries: "John Doe" and "Jane Doe". If John and Jane are married, you may set the appropriate "Related Name" fields in Address Book to denote this fact. To completely realize the relationship you will need to add a spouse relationship to both John and Jane’s entry - each pointing to the other. This violates my first law of data entry duplication: don’t do it.

That’s where Relationship Completer comes in. Relationship Completer is an Address Book plug-in that will add a new menu item for "Related Names" that allows you to automatically complete the relationship by creating the complementary related name entry. Now all you need to do is create one of the spouse entries and have the other one created automatically.

Supported Languages

English
Danish (Thanks to Sebastian Adorján Dyhr)
German (Thanks to Dr. Uwe Werner)

Using Relationship Completer

Create original relationship. In this case that Jane Doe is the spouse of John Doe.

Click (or control-click if in edit mode) on the relationship label ("spouse" in this example) and an action menu will appear. Select: Make "John Doe" spouse of "Jane Doe"

Refresh "Jane Doe" and you will see the relationship is complete!

Changelog

Version 1.1.1:

Added Danish translation (thanks to Sebastian Adorján Dyhr)
Removed support for Mac OS X 10.3.9.

Version 1.1.0:

Improved name matching algorithm
- Now supports matching names based on a single name
- Now supports matching names that contain prefixes and/or suffixes
Now Checks for existing relationship before adding a duplicate entry
Added support for Mac OS X 10.3.9+
Fixed various crashes and memory leaks
Added German translation (thanks to Dr. Uwe Werner)