Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] address book

[Buchan Milne]

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Reading this thread, I can't help thinking that you guys are talking
about LDAP. IMHO, LDAP should be the preferred contacts storage backend,
simply because:

a)There is a standard
b)It is supported by almost all software. Outlook, Outlook Express,
Mozilla, Netscape, Pegasus Mail, Evolution etc all support it to
different extents.

So, I think that any thoughts on this should include the possibility of
easily migrating to LDAP (ie importing contacts from Outlook, Outlook
Express etc into LDAP).

Buchan



address@hidden wrote:
| On 16 Apr 2002 at 9:14, Peter Moulding wrote:
|
|
|>I agree with the need to expand the address book. My own preference is
|>to adopt the parent child system used in some other phpgw tables.
|>
|>Let us enter companies as parents and people as children of the company
|>entries. If a person needs departments, they can add the departments as
|>the children and people as grandchildren.
|>
|>This would allow any structure without additional tables.
|>
|>Peter
|>
|
|
| i have exactly done this separation into organizations and
individuals. i used the exsting
| addressbook as basis and normalized the table structure.
| the next thing i'm working on is a migration tool from the "old"
addressbook to the new one.
|
| the app is already working and it would be great if some of you would
test it and give me their
| opinion about it. i only have to fix some major bugs this day and
could make it available this
| evening.
|
| heiko
|
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