[turba] (no subject)

[Charles Montour]

Tom:

If I were a developer for this project (which I'm not) you would surely have 
rubbed me the wrong way with the posturing of your question.  Understand that 
Turba is a robust contact manager and groupware component and as a result, Turba 
can be configured in many powerful ways.  This flexibility comes at a price, and 
that price is a certain level of complexity that you wouldn't find in "desktop" 
based approaches.

Import and export cabability is built in, but before you tackle that, you should 
   get an idea of what your backend is going to look like.  You may want to 
investigate setting up Turba to use a simple MySQL backend database.  Its a 
commonly used configuration that gives flexibility in the mapping of custom 
database fields to Turba "on screen" fields that the user would see.

Take a closer look at the config/sources.php[.dist] file to get a glimpse of 
your backend options.  It all starts there and the Horde wiki.


-Charles



tom at hischopsticks.org wrote:
> I am a rookie to all of this webmaster stuff, so please excuse me if I say
> something really dumb.
> 
> I am using Horde now and find that the e-mail portion of that is quite
> acceptable.  The addressbook, however, is not even passable.  When I open the
> addressbook while composing an e-mail the only thing I see is people's last
> names.  I have many friends who have the same last name so this is a big
> problem.
> 
> I would like to find a very robust addressbook - similar to Yahoo's - that will
> allow me to import and export the addressbook to Outlook (or to a generic
> format that outlook will read) and will give me a lot of fields to use to store
> data, i.e. bday, anniversary, spouse's name, 2nd and 3rd e-mail addresses, etc. 
> I guess what you could say is that I am looking for a program like Outlook that
> will work on a Linux server.  Is this possible?