[turba] Contact list display error when no first or last name

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 05:05 -0500, Nathan Mills wrote:
> Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> > Quoting Nathan Mills <nathan at nwacg.net>:
> > 
> >> On my S60 phone, I have several contacts that are businesses, rather  
> >>  than individuals. The S60 address book allows the user to leave the  
> >>  first and last name blank and uses the company name instead if it   
> >> exists. When I synced my phone to a new Turba install, the listing   
> >> code was unhappy and threw several errors related to an invalid  
> >> string  index or some such. Additionally, with the default listing  
> >> options,  the contacts showed up with a completely blank name, which  
> >> makes  sense, since they had no name. ;)
> > 
> > Can you please create a bug on bugs.horde.org with the actual errors?  
> > And what versions are you using?
> 
> So, to beat a comatose horse, there was some question about what exactly 
> Turba should do in this situation. As it stands, it just displays a 
> blank name field, giving the user no indication as to what the contact 
> is about.
> 
> My position is that Turba ought to be like an S60 phone and use the 
> company name if it's available and there is no first or last name to use 
> to display a name for the contact. I see some modification of the 
> current behavior as necessary to make syncing with a phone really 
> useful. As it stands, I have somewhere between fifty and a hundred 
> contacts in Turba that show up with no identifier when browsing the list.
> 
> I'm really late opening the discussion, but what does everyone else think?
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The 'universal' view is that LDAP address books aren't happy with that
because virtually all setups require a 'cn' (commonName) attribute and
this wouldn't be satisfied.

Craig