RE: [Phpgroupware-developers] address book

[Brian Johnson]

Oh yeah - that the ticket

Complex enough to handle advanced needs but the interface can be simple enough 
for 
newbies

I agree with the concept - Outlook does a good job of handling contacts (except 
they don't separate out the company/oragization)

Sounds like he's trying to make it a little too far reaching (contacts 
belonging to 
multiple organizations? trusts and estates sounds like it should be a separate 
module that links over)

One complication that I don't think has been handled though is the company 
contact 
without a known individual at that company (eg adding a store phone number so I 
have it closer at hand)

cdb should be the future addressbook



Peter Moulding (address@hidden) wrote: 
>
>Readme looks great. I will have to read it a couple of times to get all
>that information through the narrow pipe to my brain. I could use the
>100Mb Ethernet connection they install in Pitr (userfriendly.org).
>Peter
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>Peters (Skeeter)
>Sent: Tuesday, 16 April 2002 9:45 AM
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>Subject: Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] address book
>On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, 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
>>
>Or, you can take a look at the design documents of the cdb (Contact
>Data Base) module.  mr_e (Patrick Walsh) has already started on just the
>module that would give these features to a credible contact management
>system.  Right now, he has a good design in place and SOME code, but I
>don't believe it's fully functional.
>Take a look at it, you might eant to help out.
>cvs co -r <HEAD||Version-0_9_14-branch> cdb
>Thanks,
>Mark A Peters (Skeeter)
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