[Tickets #2011] Add Virtual Contact Lists

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Ticket URL: https://dev.horde.org/horde/whups/ticket/?id=2011
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 Ticket             | 2011
 Updated By         | kevin_myer at iu13.org
 Summary            | Add Virtual Contact Lists
 Queue              | Turba
 Version            | HEAD
 State              | Accepted
 Priority           | 1. Low
 Type               | Enhancement
 Owners             | 
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kevin_myer at iu13.org (2005-07-11 13:44) wrote:

> IMO, it would be confusing for a typical user to just see a list of 
> "containers" that they have access to, yet in different areas of 
> Turba some of those lists would be there, and other times they 
> wouldn't be.  If you don't differentiate them to the user, he/she 
> would have no way of knowing why sometimes the "Building A" list is 
> displayed and sometimes it's not.   Your also leaving it up to the 
> user to remember on their own which lists are the "virtuals" that 
> they created...

I cringe at the word "virtual", but thats just from a long history of seeing
it overused :)  The need to somehow differentiate or categorize different
elements has become apparent.  I have a bit of a photographic memory, so I
probably wouldn't forget which are the "virtuals" but thats probably not to
be expected of a typical user.  I concede the point.

There are a couple of edge cases where the UI (or at least the behind the
scenes code) does provide the kind of problem you described - for instance,
if your first address book is not browseable, and you choose Browse, Turba
will try to load that and will error with a message that its not browseable,
but will happily return a list of browseable address book in the upper right
hand corner.  Better to only try browsing browseable address books, instead
of trying to browse a non-browseable one, returning an error a few seconds
later, and providing a menu of browseables from.  I'll try to catalog these
in the next few days.