[turba] Phone Objects

[Michael J Rubinsky]

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

>> -----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?

Not without hacking Horde_Form.

>> > 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.

That's your choice.

-- 
mike

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