[imp] Turba tie-in with IMP

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Rick Stevens <rstevens@vitalstream.com>:

> Yessir!  That's it.  Essentially the same stuff Turba currently uses,
> just expanded out the wazoo.

Great.

> Well, I'm adding a gob of additional fields.  Essentially, Outlook
> spews out about 87 different fields.  I'm accepting a lot of them
> (well, actually most of them), but only the most useful ones will
> appear on the main Turba screen (full name, email address, possibly
> the primary phone number).  If you want the rest, you'll have to
> click on the name, as usual.  The reason is a number of our clients
> (and we have over 1.3M of them) want their ENTIRE address book
> available over IMP.  Of course, this stuff can be pared down as the
> individual sites implement it.

Right. But that's up to the fields defined in the actual Source. All I'm 
suggesting is that your tool map all of those fields to Turba's global 
attribute names (which will be "expanded out the wazoo" in your case :), so 
that people who only want some of them, or want to map them differently, etc., 
can do so.

> I'm also looking at a "Turba Lite" that will show (on one side of the
> screen) which fields Turba will maintain in its database and on the
> other side, those that can be imported from the external source, and
> let the user "cross connect" the two ("Hmmm, I want the business city
> saved as the home phone number, just because I want to!")

That sounds pretty cool, too. Kind of like BizTalk, actually. =)

> Sure.  Let me get the sucker running first, then I'll let you know.
> Once it's functional, I'd welcome true PHP/HTML people to clean it up.
> It'll be brual and ugly initially, since I've not got the PHP chops
> to make it elegant and wonderful, like the rest of Horde/IMP/etc.

Sounds good. I'd suggest moving this conversation to the Turba list 
(turba@lists.horde.org, see http://horde.org/mail/) in the future.

-chuck

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