On Sat Mar 22 2014 Sriram Karra wrote: > When I merge two records in BBDB is there some way I can control > what happens to specific fields.
Currently the command bbdb-merge-records is what it is (with not much customization). But I guess it can be extended in many ways, including some customization of its behavior. So far, nothing of that kind has been implemented. What would be an efficient emacs-ish way of doing this? For example, there could be a user variable bbdb-merge-field-alist that defines recipes for each field how to merge them when merging records. > For e.g. for records that synced to an external datastore I > maintain an ID as part of the record itself. When two such records > are merged I want one of them to be dropped and only one retained. I want to add uuid support to BBDB to uniquely identify records, which should help, in particular with merging records (as well as with having multiple database files that get internally concatenated in a BBDB session). But whether BBDB uses uuids or something else with a similar spirit could probably be made customizable, too. BBDB has various xfields for which plain concatenation is not very helpful when merging records. So defining the merge behavior on a per-field basis would probably be useful. Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
