[turba] Title

[Jan Schneider]

Hi,

to finish the setup scripts and new default address book scheme, I  
tried to find out how to use titles. What are titles? That's exactly  
the problem, if you look at 100 application you have 100 different  
meanings. Here's a small summary:

*Turba* used to have only one field. Since the field name is  
ambiguous, English users were happy because they could use it for  
whatever they wanted. In German for example, there are (at least) two  
different translations: "Titel" as in Dr., MD, etc. and "Position"  
which means job title.

The *vCard* RFC has "honorific prefixes" as in "Dr." and suffixes as  
in "Jr.", "titles" as in job title ("Manager") and "role" as in  
profession ("Programmer").

Similar with *Kolab* which has "prefix", "suffix", "job-title", and  
"profession".

*Outlook* has "title" which is "Dr.", "Mrs." etc, "suffix" ("MD" etc)  
and "job title".

*Thunderbird* only has a job title.

*Kontact* has "title" (probably Dr., Mrs.), "honoric suffixes" and "role".

When converting between Turba (1.2) and vCard we map from title to  
title and salutation to prefix. Any other vCard fields are being  
ignored.

Turba 1.2 is supposed to add the columns object_nameprefix and  
object_role, but the latter is not yet mapped to any field in  
attributes.php or sources.php. It also adds two fields with the label  
"Salutation" which doesn't make much sense to me: "name_prefix" which  
is a select field with "Mrs", "Dr." etc, and "salutation", a free text  
field.

Confused? Me too.

So, what do we do? Which fields do we want to support and with which meaning?

Jan.

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