Re: Groups

Chris,

There is a bug (or really just a shortcut on my part) in here, but I
seem to get a different result from yours. Here's what I did.

I create an individual named 'photographers'. I then created a group
named 'photographers'. When I click the button to add contacts to the
photographers group, I see only one entry named photographers. If I
select that entry, it adds it to the group. However, it's the
photographers group, not the individual, that got added to the
photographers group. In other words, the photographers group was added
to itself, which should not be possible. That's the bug. I did not end
up with multiple entries of the same name in the groups list. You'll
have to give me a very precise recipe if I'm going to try to recreate
that result.

The shortcut I took is in the group membership selection panel (the
little popout window). There you only see the group name, so that if
you have an individual and a group by the same name, there is no way
to distinguish between them and confusion ensues.

There are a couple of other places in Pixory where it would not be
possible to distinguish between an identically named group and
individual-- the email invitation receiver list for example. This was
actually intentional on my part. I didn't think it was worth the
effort to add additional interface to indicate what type of contact
you are targeting in certain places. 

It's easier to simply ensure that all Contacts are uniquely named-- so
that there won't be any confusion. If you name the group
'Photographers Group', there won't be ambiguity and you shouldn't see
any confusion on the part of Pixory.

regards,

joe

--- In [email protected], "Chris O'Brien" <brandalob@y...>
wrote:
> Dear Joe
> 
> I am setting up various groups and allocating members to those groups.
> 
> I have a dummy account called Photographers and a group called
Photographers
>   When I click the add button there now appear to be two accounts called
> Photographers.  When I try to add one of these names, nothing
happens to the
> group members. But when I go back to the Groups main page, I find
that I now
> have multiple entries in the Groups all of the same name all showing
as one
> member - but click on the group and no members appear.
> 
> Only when I deleted all the Photography groups and started up under
another
> name was I able to create the group successfully.
> 
> Could this be because I used the same name for the group and the
individual
> member account?
> 
> Chris




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