"Roland Winkler" <wink...@gnu.org> writes: > On Fri Dec 28 2012 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> No one asked for this, but it's something I've wanted for a while, so I >> did it, and am attaching a patch if it's of general interest. >> >> I often add multiple records for different people at the same >> organization, and have wanted tab completion when creating/editing the >> organization field. This patch creates and populates a >> bbdb-organization-list variable on startup, and offers completion from >> that list when editing or creating organization fields. > > Thanks. Me too, I thought about this. So far, I did not implement > this because the organization field holds a list of values. This > makes tab completion more tricky if one wants to put multiple > entries into this field.
Yup, I thought of this problem but it seems like it's fudged in other places (ie you can't complete on subsequent values in an AKA field) so I figured this was good enough for now. That would be very cool if the completing-read engine grew the ability to deal with this. >> Just out of curiosity, has there ever been a plan to make organizations >> first-class citizens in the database? > > What's that? - The organization field holds (a list of) ATTRIBUTES > for a record. If a record should refer to a (single) organization > instead of a person such that the organization is not the attribute > for something else, I suggest that the name of that organization > should go into the name field. I think that anything else asks for > trouble. (Say, typically multiple records will have the same entries > in the organization field for all your friends / colleagues in an > organization.) Not quite sure I understood that... I was under the impression that the organization field just holds a list of strings: the names of various organizations. Is that what you meant by "attributes for a record"? I can make a record for an organization, with its organization name in the name field, and say an office front desk number in the phone field, etc, but them is there a way of indicating that a separate record (for a person), works there? I can't fill the person's organization field with a "foreign key" to the organization record, right? I realize this is approaching a relational database model, and is a can of worms that's probably not worth opening. I was just curious. E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, Knockout.js, Web API and much more. Get web development skills now with LearnDevNow - 350+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122812 _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
