Re: Folder heirarchy

Adam Tauno Williams <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:07:21 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.opengroupware.user
Message-ID <1244660841.9852.29.camel@linux-m3mt>
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 21:48 +0200, Helge Hess wrote:
> On 09.06.2009, at 20:49, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> >> 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.
> Well, WebDAV *is* hierarchical ... There is that content-location  
> header which could be used as a primary, but few (none?) clients  
> support that. Maybe we will do (Outlook at least supports that), but  
> not for now.
> Its not such a big limitation either. WebDAV is just the store, the  
> client can do stuff which used to be done by the server (eg that  
> Overview thingy).

To calculate a real "Overview" wouldn't the client have to assume (or
somehow be guaranteed) that it had [somewhere in its hierarchy] all of
the events?

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