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2010-02-09
, 18:34
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@ Nashville, TN
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#2
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I'll second the request for this...
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2010-02-09
, 18:35
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@ Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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#3
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Might want to look up the incredible Hermes app which was made for exactly this reason.
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2010-02-09
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@ Austin TX
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I LOVE Hermes. it is great but just pulls picture website & birthday data from Facebook (& twitter ?) as far as I know. This is great for updating already existing contacts in the contacts app (provided the names match of course). If you have more than 1 contact with same First & Last name Hermes does not merge them.
What I am talking about here is slightly different (an extension of that really).
We need a smart merge utility that looks at the first & last names in the contact list & merges them wherever there is a match. So that these 3 seperate entries:
1. Skype name John Smith
2. MSN IM: John Smith
3. Facebook IM: John Smith
become just one entry:
1. John Smith
Skype: John.smith
MSN: johnsmith@live.com
FB: JSmith@yahoo.com
Currently you have to find John Smith in your contact list then select all his seperate entries in the phone book to merge them.
And then go & do the same thing for James Smith and Jim Smith as well.
What I am talking about here is slightly different (an extension of that really).
We need a smart merge utility that looks at the first & last names in the contact list & merges them wherever there is a match. So that these 3 seperate entries:
1. Skype name John Smith
2. MSN IM: John Smith
3. Facebook IM: John Smith
become just one entry:
1. John Smith
Skype: John.smith
MSN: johnsmith@live.com
FB: JSmith@yahoo.com
Currently you have to find John Smith in your contact list then select all his seperate entries in the phone book to merge them.
And then go & do the same thing for James Smith and Jim Smith as well.
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2010-02-09
, 20:57
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@ Nashville, TN
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@Strive - Exactly
Additionally, this could lessen the pain for when contacts do "unmerge" as well.
Additionally, this could lessen the pain for when contacts do "unmerge" as well.
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2010-02-09
, 22:35
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@ Austin TX
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Yeah the "un-merge" issue is very inconvenient.
So should we start a brainstorm for this proposed utility?
I am not skilled to develop the solution but can volunteer to handle all the project admin if need be.
So should we start a brainstorm for this proposed utility?
I am not skilled to develop the solution but can volunteer to handle all the project admin if need be.
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2010-02-09
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my 2 cents
I see the unmerge issue as a bug that needs to be solved.
I imported my contacts from N95 and added a few Social Networks and patiently merged all my contacts. This is quite stable until you add/remove more contact sources, when you start getting dups.
When the contacts are imported, a new contact should only be created if it's "ID" is not present as field in any other contact. So if I already have a contact with a GTalk field of "John.Doe@gmail.com" in my John Doe contact, a new one should not be created when I the GTalk contacts are imported.
Other annoying thing, but this is specific of MSN plugins, it that each version (Haze, Pecan, Butterfly) use a different field ID, getting even more duplicates if you try another plugin. They all should share the same MSN tag and use the principle above.
Last edited by Hangas; 2010-02-09 at 23:11.
I see the unmerge issue as a bug that needs to be solved.
I imported my contacts from N95 and added a few Social Networks and patiently merged all my contacts. This is quite stable until you add/remove more contact sources, when you start getting dups.
When the contacts are imported, a new contact should only be created if it's "ID" is not present as field in any other contact. So if I already have a contact with a GTalk field of "John.Doe@gmail.com" in my John Doe contact, a new one should not be created when I the GTalk contacts are imported.
Other annoying thing, but this is specific of MSN plugins, it that each version (Haze, Pecan, Butterfly) use a different field ID, getting even more duplicates if you try another plugin. They all should share the same MSN tag and use the principle above.
Last edited by Hangas; 2010-02-09 at 23:11.
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2010-02-10
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Joined on Nov 2009
@ Austin TX
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All valid points I have experienced issues with. So sounds like there is definately a need for an enhanced merge utility.
Any developers want to take a stab at it?
Any developers want to take a stab at it?
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2010-02-10
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Joined on Dec 2009
@ London, UK
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Auto-matching just on names is dangerous - how many John Smith's are out there?
Auto-matching on something unique (eg, email address) should be fine.
Perhaps have a new 'proposed matches' screen with a simple interface to manually approve each match to speed up the matching?
Another thing I personally would really like to see is that IM contacts do NOT automatically become an Address Book contact. I'd prefer to only import IM contact details for contacts I already have since I have a LOT of casual IM contacts which I don't want cluttering up my 'real' address book, but don't want to delete either.
Perhaps a way to solve this is via multiple address books, or address book groups / tags.
Should only be a fairly simple change at the database level - add 'Groups' and 'Group_Members' tables. Would, of course, need a fair amount of GUI work to support.
eg.
John Smith (Standard Address Book): (Manually added / sync'd from another device)
Phone #
Address
<whatever>
John Smith (MSN): (Auto-imported from IM plugin)
Msn ID
John Smith (Email): (Auto-imported from email app)
Email Address
John Smith (...), etc.
John Smith: (After merge, full contact card displayed irrespective of which Group is currently selected)
Phone #
Address
Msn ID
Email Address
<whatever>
As well as these auto-generated groups, a user could create custom groups (Friends, Colleagues, ...) and manually add contacts to them.
This way a user could select a group (Standard, MSN, EMail) and only display contacts matching that group. A particular contact could, of course, be in multiple groups. Of course there'd also be a meta-group 'All' which is effectively what we have now.
Something like this would actually be a useful Address Book!
Auto-matching on something unique (eg, email address) should be fine.
Perhaps have a new 'proposed matches' screen with a simple interface to manually approve each match to speed up the matching?
Another thing I personally would really like to see is that IM contacts do NOT automatically become an Address Book contact. I'd prefer to only import IM contact details for contacts I already have since I have a LOT of casual IM contacts which I don't want cluttering up my 'real' address book, but don't want to delete either.
Perhaps a way to solve this is via multiple address books, or address book groups / tags.
Should only be a fairly simple change at the database level - add 'Groups' and 'Group_Members' tables. Would, of course, need a fair amount of GUI work to support.
eg.
John Smith (Standard Address Book): (Manually added / sync'd from another device)
Phone #
Address
<whatever>
John Smith (MSN): (Auto-imported from IM plugin)
Msn ID
John Smith (Email): (Auto-imported from email app)
Email Address
John Smith (...), etc.
John Smith: (After merge, full contact card displayed irrespective of which Group is currently selected)
Phone #
Address
Msn ID
Email Address
<whatever>
As well as these auto-generated groups, a user could create custom groups (Friends, Colleagues, ...) and manually add contacts to them.
This way a user could select a group (Standard, MSN, EMail) and only display contacts matching that group. A particular contact could, of course, be in multiple groups. Of course there'd also be a meta-group 'All' which is effectively what we have now.
Something like this would actually be a useful Address Book!
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2010-02-10
, 16:05
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@ Frankfurt, Germany
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#10
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You can vote for this bug: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8849
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I have 200 MSN
470 Facebook
600 Phonebook contacts. Many of these are the same people jsut with multiple accounts.
Everytime I add a new VoIP/ IM protocol it adds seperate entries for each contact.
Is there a way to have it match on first & last name so that it automatically merges the contacts so I don't have a 1270 entry contacts list with duplicates. Its a little daunting trying to merge 470 contacts manually.
Last edited by Strive_Masiwa; 2010-02-09 at 20:23.