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).
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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)

I would find that to be an incredibly useful feature.

Is that something that in order to obtain that functionality from an
outlook client it would require changes to both the ogo server and the
zideone outlook client??

Dirk
> 
> Thanks,
>    Helge
> -- 
> Helge Hess
> http://helgehess.eu/

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