Wanted to run by some things i think are required
for the Mozilla address book to cater for organisational
(LDAP) and '10K' address books i.e. address books
with so many cards it is not feasible to list all cards.
o Need attribute that defines if an address book
is only searchable. This will define organisational
address books.
- For 10k address books i think the user needs to
define this via a preference which states that
the address book should only be searched.
- Is an attribute needed to define type so that
associated icons may be displayed?
o GUI Search functionality like netscape 4.X and
the proposed search functionality that was
described by Josh Harding and suggested by
Matthew Thomas.
When a searchable address book is selected
the 'search bar' should be displayed.
o The RDF directory data source needs a query
command that takes as an argument the search
critera defined as a boolean expression tree.
- The data source will be responsible for
for passing the search arguments to the query
interface on the RDF directory resource conponent
and listening to the results which are then
asserted. Thus it is asynchronous in operation.
The query command should unassert previously
returned cards.
- A general linear search query component is
available for directories that do not support
the query interface. This means that existing
local address books may also be searched.
o Offline mode. For organisational address books
it should be possible to create a local address
book and copy the cards obtained from the search
criteria. I don't think a local address book
needs to be created or modified every time a
search is performed like 4.X functionality,
but i am not sure how offline works in general.
I think we have moved significantly forward to
enable the functionality to support this behaviour.
The only area I am unsure about is the GUI bit.
Any comments?
Thanks,
Paul.
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