RE: [Phpgroupware-developers] Addbook vs addressbook (Timetrack)

[Brian Johnson]

Hi Bob, how're you doing?

Bob's correct, Timetrack was set up to handle it's own contacts and have an
indirect tie in with addresbook.  The code's still there, everything I've
been doing is set up to be enabled by a few option selections (some by
admin, some by user)

It's not that timetrack isn't good ... it's that the potential is there such
that it could be a lot better

I'm still pushing for a direct, live relationship between the modules to
allow users of both apps (and email and potentially other apps) to tie into
the same data instead of having duplicates all over the place


> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden
> Behalf Of Bob Schader
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 06:23
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Addbook vs addressbook
> (Timetrack)
>
>
> snip...
> >
> > > I think for my module cross-linking purposes, I definitely
> need a separate record
> > > for the company.
> > >
> > > Why do people continually not see the requirement to separate
> people from companies?
> > >  Easier to program I guess ... until you you need the info separated
> >
> > It's like always, if we would design everything from the beginning, we
> > could go for a much better solution.
> >
> rant...
>
> To refresh everyone's memory, I'd just like to state that
> timetrack originally DID
> have it's own separate table for companies. Although maybe not
> perfect for everyone's
> needs, it was designed towards compatibility with addressbook at
> that time, although
> I did feel it was somewhat crippled by having to adhere to
> addressbook's schema
> in the first place. At one time they almost listened to me and
> temporarily added some
> support for accessing company data in addressbook through
> timetrack's customer
> tables on a conditional basis (depending on if timetrack was
> installed) but that was also
> removed from addressbook at some point.
>
> Bob Schader
>
>
>
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