[dev] Re: Adding contact to nag task [Patch]

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Jeroen Huinink <j.huinink at wanadoo.nl>:

> I was thinking about introducing some sort of Unique Identifier concept
> (what I now called keyFields in Turba) that allows applications to link
> into each other. We could create a horde_crosslink table that contains 
> four fields: from_application, from_UID, to_application, to_UID.
> This also allows associating Notes with Tasks and/or Calendar Events or
> even to link Tasks to each other (follow-up tasks).
> This would result in something like the following set of APIs
> 
> UIDFields: This should return the set of UID fields.
> searchUID: This seach should at least return the UID.
> showByUID: This should show a page with the associated element
> descriptionByUID: This should retreive a description that can be used to
> show in an external links list.
> 
> If you like this idea I will look into this.

That sounds good to me - I think this could definitely be useful.

-chuck

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