On Wednesday 10 February 2010 01:05 PM, Klaus Kurzmann wrote:
Am Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010 07:38:01 schrieb Benjamin Schieder:
On 09.02.2010 21:13:14, Tom Hacohen wrote:
What fields do you think we should provide by default?
Hi.
Great idea! Waiting for it for a while ;)
Anyway, I would like to connect contacts to other contacts like this:
Contact A
Line Manager
/ / | \ \
Contacts B C D E F
That way in Contacts B through F there would be a link to contact A
looking like:
Line Manager: Contact A
And in contact A:
Line Manager of: Contact B
Contact C
Contact D
Contact E
Contact F
The string "Line Manager" should be free form though, to also implement
"Parent", "Child", "Co-worker", "Customer", etc.
Just an idea...
This one I like very much :-) We do exactly that in our programs at dayjob and
it is very, very useful. No idea how that integrates in opimd structure
though... Adding some kind of 'link' field type should not be difficult. But...
right now we don't have a persistent id per contact. The dbus path of the
contact might change on reboot. Another problem is that right now we can't
have multiple fields of the same name. An I for one have (almost) three kids ;)
I second the link idea. It'll be very useful in some situations. For
example: I have a lot of contacts who are basically parents/siblings of
my friends. Normally do not call them up but keep them for emergencies.
Another example would be the manager case above.
In these cases ... I don't want to see all these contacts while
scrolling for a contact to call ... but I want to be able to keep these
numbers in contact list in case a call comes. It's like social linking :
I normally know about 20-50 ppl directly. I know another 500 through
them. These people I know directly will be whom I call a lot. So I would
want to see mostly them only in the contact list. If I have to call
parents of a friend; or friend of a friend; or a work call referred to
me by someone who I'm in contact with regularly. I'd click
hierarchically through my direct contact.
I feel this would make looking up contacts easier and allow you to scale
to a larger number of contacts.
Kind regards,
Benjamin
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