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

[Patrick J. Walsh]

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

    That's an interesting point.  Besides organization affilliations, what
else would such a system need to be useful?


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> Patrick J. Walsh (address@hidden) wrote*:
> >
> >> 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:
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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:
> >
> >- Follow-up
> >- For your information
> >- Review
> >- Call
> >- Send E-mail
> >- Send Letter
> >- Arrange meeting
> >
> >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.
> >
> >10) Use a table to store internet contact info.
> >
> >11) Provide a mechanism for storing a contact's spoken language
> >so that correspondence is done in the correct language.
> >
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