Category: Contact (address book)

Create a new contact, add an ext field to it, say, 'Work Fax', and set it to something obvious. (ie, 911)

Save record.

When viewing, the name of the field is not displayed, even for the user that entered it.

This should be migrated to the community site, and handled with ((doc:Organic groups)) and ((doc:User Trackers))

This should be migrated to the community site, and handled with ((doc:Organic groups)) and ((doc:User Trackers))

hcal was added to 1.10!

As this is an ongoing process, we'll use a wiki page to coordinate efforts. Please see: ((microformats)).

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Hello,

when I press "CardDAV" button in ../tiki-contacts.php, it leads/maps to

[CardDAV](https://mydomain/tiki-carddav.php/addressbooks/admin/webmail)

which does not exist (if webmail is not activated) and does produce:

<d:error>
<s:sabredav-version>4.4.0</s:sabredav-version>
<s:exception>Sabre\DAV\Exception\NotFound</s:exception>
<s:message>Addressbook with name 'webmail' could not be found</s:message>
</d:error>

However, if I change the link to:

https://mydomain/tiki-carddav.php/addressbooks/admin/

I can see two entries under Nodes:

* gour
* system

The first one was the *.vcf which I did upload, but the problem is that its contacts are not visible at:

https://mydomain/tiki-contacts.php

So, the question is whether it is possible to upload CardDAV addressbook (*.vcf) file and have its contacts visible within Tiki and possibly sync them with desktop/mobile clients?


Sincerely,
Gour

Since this is vast project, we'll use a wiki page: ((CRM))

Project to perform many of the functions of CRM using as many existing Tiki features as possible (dev notes).

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The ((doc:Inter-User Messages)) system is quite nice.

However, it means:
1- That users have duplicate mailboxes
2- And the recipient can't just click reply

On dev.tikiwiki.org, this is not so nice because people already have an internal tiki mailbox on tikiwiki.org

So, let's think about an additional/modified feature called "direct message" or "direct mail".

This would simulate a regular email. (let's plan ahead that this should be able to send other types of messages (jabber, sms, etc.)

The headers could be:
"from" is Full Name ({$Username}) {senderemail}
"to" is Full Name ({$Username}) {recipientemail}
"bcc" to {senderemail} (So we have a trace of what we sent)

In case some spammers get a hold of it, let's have something like this at the bottom:
This message was sent via {$name of site}


Not sure if this should be done with the ((doc:webmail)) feature, or maybe as an option of ((doc:Inter-User Messages))

See how MediaWiki does it for a good example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/Marclaporte

As a registered user I try to create a contact, I click on the save button and then I get the following page with this error (By the way the contact is saved):

The following error message was returned:

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'AS x FROM `tiki_webmail_contacts_ext` AS x LEFT JOIN `tiki_webmail_contacts_fiel' at line 1

The query was:
DELETE `tiki_webmail_contacts_ext`.* AS x FROM `tiki_webmail_contacts_ext` AS x LEFT JOIN `tiki_webmail_contacts_fields` AS f ON x.`fieldId`=f.`fieldId`WHERE x.`contactId`=? AND f.`flagsPublic`='n' AND f.`user`=?

Values:

1. 2
2. John Doe

The built query was likely:
DELETE `tiki_webmail_contacts_ext`.* AS x FROM `tiki_webmail_contacts_ext` AS x LEFT JOIN `tiki_webmail_contacts_fields` AS f ON x.`fieldId`=f.`fieldId`WHERE x.`contactId`='2' AND f.`flagsPublic`='n' AND f.`user`='John Doe'


The extra fields like "City" and so on, are not saved.
Logged in as a admin I do not get this fault (not on my own installation nor on the show.tikiwiki.org)
I have seen this error in version 11 too, but did not pay attention to it because it was my first use of Tiki.

'Shared' contacts don't shared the field names. If userA creates an entry with a 'custom' field of 'Company' as 'The Smith Company', we see this in the db:


||contactId|fieldId|value|hidden
1 | 7 |The Smith Company|0||


The problem is that other users do not 'inherit' that custom field: so other users seeing that record will see no description of the field name. Indeed, if another user chooses 'Company' from the list of fields to add, it will get a new fieldId:

||contactId | fieldId | value | hidden
1 | 7 | The Smith Company | 0
2 | 23 | Smith Industries | 0 ||

It should, especially for the predefined (semi-custom fields, like 'Company' and 'Street Address', defined in lib/webmail/contactlib.php) 'share' these values with others instead of creating new fieldId's.

Tiki newsletter works well for small volumes.

But for large volumes, as with any web app, sending emails from a server can be a challenge. Risk of being flagged as spammer, high server load/difficult to throttle, limits from your web hosts (ex.: max x emails per hour), etc

A helpful alternative would be something like this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4883

So my Thunderbird client or desktop newsletter application (ex.: [http://gammadyne.com/mmail.htm|Gammadybe Mailer]) should be able to access the TikiWiki database to generate recipient list.



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Another approach is to make the Tiki contacts (address book) accessible via the LDAP protocol and thus, email clients can access.

Related:
http://www.egroupware.org/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=wiki.uiwiki.view&page=AddresbookAccountsConcept