Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] NEW APP: addbook is in cvs

[Miles Lott]

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Brad Sturgill wrote:
> 
> Thanks Seek3r,
> 
> The tiered functionality (organization, person) does provide something that
> I can take advantage of.
> 
> Heiko & Michael, can you work on the standards issues?  I have to admit
> (after only a day of review), I get a little confused in some of the code as
> well (I am sure that this will be resolved after reviewing the code some
> more), but it is very nice to have and I am sure it will grow into something
> that is very useful for us all (it already addresses a couple of issues that
> I have been challenged with so thanks!).  It would be nice for it to follow
> the phpgroupware standards so that we don't have to learn other standards.
> 
> Functionality questions:
> 
> 1. One thing that I don't see yet is the Vcard functionality.  Do you plan
> on incorporating that?
> 2. Additional contacts (in the contact information) is really "Contact
> Methods" (i.e. second phone, additional email address, etc.) is it not?
> Changing the name will prevent confusion with the category information
> (currently in the meta data).
> 3.  The category selection for additional contacts is nice, but can we move
> the definition of categories (contact methods) to the user preferences
> section so that a user can add additional contact methods on their own?
> 4.  I would like to be able to set global categories (not contact
> categories) for the app (much in the same manner as  addressbook), will this
> be available soon?
> 5.  I would like to be able to use categories as part of the list screen
> (not part of meta data) so that I can categorize people and organizations
> and sort by that categorization (user defined categories as well as global
> categories).  Can this be incorporated?
> 6.  Can the email (on the detail screen and the list screen) link to the
> email app?  It would be nice to be able to simply press the link and email a
> contact.
> 7.  Can the web page element be a hyper link so that by pressing it a new
> browser window is opened and the user is presented with the associated web
> page (much the same way that addressbook addresses this issue)?
> 8.  In the U.S. Postal Code typically comes after the region (state) when
> entering.  I am assuming that this is not true globally, but is it possible
> to move this to that location (I will do this in my code anyway but...).
> 9.  The preference radio buttons are grouped, I would rather that I could
> select as many as I need.  Can this be changed?
> 10.  On the view screen for organization, in the employees list, can you
> create a selection list in preferences so that a user could select what is
> displayed?  It would be nice, for example, to be able to identify title,
> phone number, and email address as viewable on this list (much the same way
> that you do on the first list page).
> 11.  Can you iconify "view, edit and ultimately VCard" much like is done in
> infolog?  This gives it a nice finished look.
> 
> I guess that is all that I can think of at this point.  As I continue to
> work with this I may have additional observations and questions.  Thanks for
> taking the initiative to create this functionality.  I look forward to
> working with it more!
> 
> Brad
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Dan
> Kuykendall (Seek3r)
> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 2:55 PM
> To: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: [Phpgroupware-developers] NEW APP: addbook is in cvs
> 
> addbook has been added to our cvs tree.
> This is another contacts app, giving everyone more choice.
> This is NOT the default contacts app, addressbook IS.
> 
> addbook is new, and I am not sure how stable it is, but the code needs
> lots of work to be compliant with our standards and some parts of the
> code dont make sense to me. Im sure it will all be worked out over time
> and may provide some of you with something better for your contacts
> until cdb arrives.
> 
> Seek3r
> 
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