[turba] Phone Objects

[Simon Brereton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: turba-bounces at lists.horde.org [mailto:turba-
> bounces at lists.horde.org] On Behalf Of 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

Can I make it accept alpha characters?

> > 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.

Generally, I just remove the required requirement for last names and then it's fine.

Simon