[Tickets #7269] Re: Replace categories and groups with tags

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7269
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  Ticket             | 7269
  Updated By         | Michael Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>
  Summary            | Replace categories and groups with tags
  Queue              | Turba
  Version            | HEAD
  Type               | Enhancement
  State              | New
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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Michael Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org> (2008-08-31 09:30) wrote:

I think the replacing category with tags is a great idea, but I'm not  
so sure about using tags as a replacement for contact groups.  My  
first thought is that this would make it extremely difficult to keep  
sources that are not exclusive to Horde in sync with changes made to  
groups in Horde....and how would we map them the other way? i.e. If an  
external address book source already have groups defined?  I'm also  
wondering about how resource intensive it would be to make the queries  
that would be needed to know what "groups" should be visible when  
browsing an address book etc...  Unless you are talking about  
_completely_ changing how they are displayed in Turba, and not showing  
groups when browsing address books, and instead having each tag  
represent a single group across all sources...in which case I think  
that this would be counter intuitive to how most people use address  
books.  Of course, just my opinion, and I could be totally missing the  
point here :)