[turba] Phone Objects

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:

> 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.

Sounds right.

> 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.

Jan.

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