Adressbook - Add Contacts to multible Adressbooks

[gantscha]

I think it should be possible to add the same contact to more than one adressbook!

Helps a lot when you have a lot of adressbooks and want to share your contacts just in some of them!

(By the way - GREAT user interface. I think this together with propper SyncML and ICal support would make egw or .. sorry Tine 2.0 the best opensource Groupware available. Please keep us up to date whats happenning and when you expect to update the demo with the crm. THANKS! Keep up the outstanding work!)

[nelius]

I think it should be possible to add the same contact to more than one adressbook!

Helps a lot when you have a lot of adressbooks and want to share your contacts just in some of them!

Interesting thing. I need to think about it.

It could be hard to deal with mobile devices i think in a first shot, but i'll keep in mind and discuss it with the other devs.

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[gantscha]

Do the Contacts have a unique ID or do they get identified just by the family name?!?

I think if contacts have a unique ID as an identifier it is pretty straight forward ... (I could even suppress duplicated contact entries when syncing with an Device if they are in more than one Adressbook)

If not ... puh no Idea how to deal with it

[lkneschke]

Do the Contacts have a unique ID or do they get identified just by the family name?!?

They have a unique id. That's not the problem.

It's more a problem of permissions. What happens if on contact is stored in one addressbook, where the user has read only rights and another addressbook, where the user has read/write rights. Now the user can remove the account also from the other addressbook where he has no write(delete) permissions.

But we will introduce lists later. A contact can be in multiple lists. Maybe this can solve your problem.

[gantscha]

I understand the problem...

My question is: What if i want a contact in my personal address book to show up in one or many of the company's address books to?!?


One way to solve this problem:
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Why not "remember" the rights of the initial address book where the Contact gets created?
If i create the Contact in the Company address book the Contact is owned by this address book. If i "add/link" it later to my personal address book it still got the rights of the company address book because it got created there plus a read right in my personal address book. If i want to modify the contact inside of my personal address book but have no right in the company address book i still could "copy" or "make local" or "duplicate locally" or whatever you want to call it inside my local address book and then be able to modify it. (If i copy it there are two contacts now and housekeeping is not good but i think thats a rare case)

The other way around:
If i add a Contact in my personal address book and later add it (wich implements i got read or even better a special "link" right in the companies address book) to a company or shared address book it still remembers the rights of my local address book plus the read right inside of the companies address book. If someone is allowed to edit my address book he could modify the Contact.

If i want to get other users the rights to modify the contact i could move instead of link the contact to the companys adressbook or i could grant the same rights to my personal address book as the company address book has (which is crazy but...) But this would require that i have write rights in both address books

TADA


To some it up: This would be a new concept of linking contacts to an address book and probably a special link right!
So i could link or move a contact which are two different things!

What do you think?

[lkneschke]

To some it up: This would be a new concept of linking contacts to an address book and probably a special link right!
So i could link or move a contact which are two different things!

What do you think?

Let's wait until we have finished the lists stuff. It works exactly this way.

You can define a global readable list. And add as many contacts as you like. And everyone gets only these contacts displayed to which he has access to.

That should lead to the same solution.

[gantscha]

ahhh - thanks - will wait for sure !

At least i know know it wasn't a stupid idea...

One last question: Could i eventually sync such lists?!? (Please see my post for syncing of address books ...) but i guess yes.

[lkneschke]

One last question: Could i eventually sync such lists?!? (Please see my post for syncing of address books ...) but i guess yes.

It just depends on your device. From the Tine 2.0 point of view, I can not see, why this should not be possible.

Just give us some time.