[turba] Phone Objects

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Simon Brereton <simon.brereton at buongiorno.com>:

> Hi
>
> Importing some contacts from Outlook causes contacts with (usually  
> work numbers) to be uneditible if the number is, for example,  
> "+1234567983 ext 4557"
>
> I've checked in the DB and the field is a VARCHAR 25 - so I'm at a  
> loss to understand why it doesn't like that format.

Telephone numbers should not contain alpha characters. Your example  
should be written as:

+11234567983 4557

> Also, why is lastname a required field?  I have to change it every  
> time (although hopefully having it in attributes.local.php will  
> resolve that.  Still, I have to change it for each new installation.

I don't remember exactly why this was done, but IIRC (and somebody  
please correct me if I'm wrong) it has to do with the fact the *some*  
name field needs to be required in order for the composite name field  
and name parsing routines to work correctly. Of course, the entries in  
backends.php are just suggested/example configurations. You are free  
to change them if you have found another configuration that works  
correctly for you also.


-- 
mike

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