Re: The return of mr_e <was: [Phpgroupware-developers] Release schedule.>

[Bob Crandell]

It looks like this would have enough info for a lawyer's conflict managment 
system
too.

Patrick J. Walsh (address@hidden) wrote*:
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>> I am quite interested in this contact manager.
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>Design Goals
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>Next, one often has a number of contacts in the same company.  For
>instance, suppose our CPA uses a law firm, but several different
>attorneys within the law firm for different areas of law.  Outlook and
>most other contact databases force you to put the company information in
>for each person.  This is a waste of time and space and is a potential
>source of typos that could mess up filters for a particular company.
>Further, a company can be a contact with further contacts within the
>company.  This brings me to the third design goal:
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>3) Create a system by which contacts can share company information.
>Company information includes the company name, main phone number,
>home page, notes, and id number.
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>But lets not limit ourselves to companies -- let's call these
>organizations and let them be any legal entites: estates, trusts,
>companies and so forth.  In such cases the id number would be the
>federal id number used for taxes -- similar to an individual's
>social security number.  This is probably specific to CPA's.
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>Any given contact can be associated with a number of
>organizations.  A person may be the executor of an estate, work
>for a company, and be a beneficiary of a trust.

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>9) There will be a system wide list of follow-up flags that can be
>associated with a contact.  Such flags would be seen by anyone,
>in contrast to the user-specific labels above.  Example values
>that would add a colored flag to a column are:
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>- Follow-up
>- For your information
>- Review
>- Call
>- Send E-mail
>- Send Letter
>- Arrange meeting
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>Few contact management databases provide sufficient Internet
>information.  There needs to be a framework for storing e-mail
>addresses including personal and work e-mail, ftp, personal
>home page, business home page, icq number and so forth.
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>10) Use a table to store internet contact info.
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>11) Provide a mechanism for storing a contact's spoken language
>so that correspondence is done in the correct language.
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