Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Palm conduit for addbook

[Dr. Michael Meskes]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 10:27:03AM -0400, Brian Johnson wrote:
> when there is one record per individual (that includes company info like the
> addressbook) then I could make a table that matched up phpgw record id
> numbers with
> palm addressbook record id numbers.  When we get into multiple individuals
> per
> company I was going to match them up and sync them through in a similar
> manner.
> But if one company info field changes on the Palm (for example the first
> Palm
> record of two individuals from the same company) how do I prevent the second
> company record from undoing the changes applied by the first?  Any input on
> logic
> would be helpful

That's exactly the reason why Heiko wrote addbook. You need to get the
data normalized. IMO the only thing you can do is assume that all
entries are the same. Else you would have to create a new organisation
which creates some mess with your data I think.

Michael
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