Alfred not searching contacts

[willoneal]

I've been having trouble with Alfred & BusyContacts for a short while now, and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

 

Prior to today, when I searched for Contacts using Alfred, It would show me the contact, and if I wanted to open it, it would switch to BusyContacts, but it would not show the contact - BC would remain on whatever contact was currently open.

 

That is what I was coming here to fix.

 

Just some background - .vcf files are associated with BC and my url scheme is busycontacts://show/{uid} and Open Contacts in Alfred is checked.

 

I found this information http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/5550-busycontacts-integration/?hl=busycontactsand started to follow it to see if it would help. It says to uncheck Use Spotlight metadata for searching contacts. I did this, and now searching for a contact in Alfred doesn't search for Contacts.

 

And if I re-enable it, and search for a contact, it tells me, in the results, that if I hit enter it will show the contact in Alfred. But it doesn't - it switches to BC, which doesn't show the contact I was searching for.

 

Summary - Alfred doesn't show the contacts like it has been told to do, and BusyContacts (I know this is probably a BC problem) doesn't either.

 

How do I get Alfred to at least show me the contact I'm looking for again?

 

 

[Vero]

I've been having trouble with Alfred & BusyContacts for a short while now, and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

 

Prior to today, when I searched for Contacts using Alfred, It would show me the contact, and if I wanted to open it, it would switch to BusyContacts, but it would not show the contact - BC would remain on whatever contact was currently open.

 

That is what I was coming here to fix.

 

Just some background - .vcf files are associated with BC and my url scheme is busycontacts://show/{uid} and Open Contacts in Alfred is checked.

 

I found this information http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/5550-busycontacts-integration/?hl=busycontactsand started to follow it to see if it would help. It says to uncheck Use Spotlight metadata for searching contacts. I did this, and now searching for a contact in Alfred doesn't search for Contacts.

 

And if I re-enable it, and search for a contact, it tells me, in the results, that if I hit enter it will show the contact in Alfred. But it doesn't - it switches to BC, which doesn't show the contact I was searching for.

 

Summary - Alfred doesn't show the contacts like it has been told to do, and BusyContacts (I know this is probably a BC problem) doesn't either.

 

How do I get Alfred to at least show me the contact I'm looking for again?

 

 

Hi there,

 

The first thing to resolve here is for Alfred to show you contacts (without using the metadata alternative way of returning contacts). if Alfred isn't finding your contacts is to check that you've given him permission to search your OS X contacts. Check that Alfred is listed in OS X's Security & Privacy preferences > Privacy > Contact and that the box next to Alfred is checked.

 

Take a look at the other bullet points in the first section of this Contacts Troubleshooting post too:

https://www.alfredapp.com/help/troubleshooting/finding-contacts/#contacts

 

Once your contacts are correctly showing in Alfred (without using the Spotlight metadata method), you should be able to open them in BusyContacts. 

 

Let me know how you get on

 

Cheers,

Vero

[willoneal]

The issue I had was related to how I had set up / changed my workflow.

 

I have busycontacts connected to my server based contacts account. Due to the inability to do one thing (I can't remember what that was now) I disable the server link to Contacts. And once the data on the computer got stale, it could not searc BC for it.

 

I re-enabled the server based account in Contacts, and then all the searching problems went away.

 

Thanks for the support!