Re: Folder heirarchy

On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 17:29 +0200, Helge Hess wrote:
> On 09.06.2009, at 15:38, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 12:16 +0200, Helge Hess wrote:
> >> On 08.06.2009, at 19:39, Dirk Bartley wrote:
> >>> I'm a little curious as to the absense of
> >>> Contacts and Enterprises underneath groups
> >> Well, what would be the representation of that in OGo?
> >> Group calendars contain events which have the read-access-group of
> >> that group. But contacts have no group associated, they are either
> >> private or public (hence the folders in '/contacts' and '/public/
> >> contacts').
> > Via access (acls).  One problem with /public is that it gets HUGE.   
> > But
> > a {Group}/Contacts could contain the contacts where access has been
> > specifically granted to that group (or maybe that group or are  
> > public).
> ACLs are not distinct (multiple groups can be assigned access to the  
> same contact).

Yep.

> That is, a contact would then show up in multiple folders. Which is  
> technically possible, but is bound to produce issues. Eg, what happens  
> if you edit a contact in one folder in offline mode (or even online).  
> The same contact in another folder won't get updated by the client  
> until the next sync.

Does ZideOne, etc... index by the href?  Only allowing an object to
exist at one point in the hierarchy seems like a serious limitation.

> The Overview calendar has similiar issues. The Overview is something I  
> really want to do on the client side.
> (technically the best thing would be to introduce a hierarchy on the  
> server which can be configured by the admin and/or user - but I don't  
> see this happening anytime soon)



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