[turba] Address Book Setup Questions

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Tue Oct 31 08:34:47 PST 2006


Zitat von Michael Rubinsky <mike at theupstairsroom.com>:

> Quoting Adam Tauno Williams <adam at morrison-ind.com>:
>
>> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 19:49 -0400, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
>>> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>>>
>>>> Shouldn't composite fields simply search all fields they are used to
>>>> build it?
>>>
>>> Sounds simple, and if there are no obvious catches that's fine with me
>>> (I can't think of anything right now, but it seems like it's just
>>> hiding in a corner).
>>
>> It doesn't seem like that would produce the expected results.  If I have
>> a composite field "name" comprised of "firstname" and "lastname";  then
>> the user enters "adam w' and hits search.... I search for "adam w" in
>> firstname and lastname - and find nothing.  I've seen lots of our users
>> use expand names search from IMP like this,  I assume they'd do the same
>> thing in the address book.  I understand the logic here,  but I don't
>> know if it makes sense from a user's perspective.
>
> I might be jumping in the middle of this and misreading something,  
> but I thought that this is how composite fields are currently  
> handled?  (Ticket: 1536)

Uh, yes. Nice, now I know what it is good for. :-)

Jan.

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