Re: Calendar Events Matching Criteria

> same summary(short title), same start, and same end date/time.
> 
> All comments and/or suggestions are welcome.

Use the same scheme as the phonebook does.  The first step
is an entry matcher.  For each pair of entries it calculates
a score of how closely they match.

The second step is an entry merger which merges the various 
fields from the best match into an entry.

Note that you have have to calculate all scores first (N*M
combinations).  Just because an import matches an existing
really well, doesn't mean it doesn't match another one even
better.

Due to phone constraints (use the code for incoming entries
from the phone) and those of other data sources, there will 
be all sorts of mangling to the data including truncation 
of various fields and granularity of times.

You should be able to copy the general scheme and UI from
the phonebook code.  You'll also start understanding the
insignificance of the dictionary key for each entry as
you'll be juggling imported entries, existing entries,
result entries and new entries :-)

Roger


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