sharing data between bbdb records
Hello! Very happy user of bbdb, but one with a one long-standing question. Consider two or three records, that share some information, for example the address. Bob Creature mail: bob.creature@company address (office): some address//zip//city/country Alice Individual mail: alice.individual@company address (office): same as Bob Creature Eve Being ... office address like Alice and Bob I find myself adding such address information for the second time, when adding the bbdb record for Alice. And if the company adds Eve Being to their staff member, a third time for Eve. And updating it twice, three times, if the company changes address. Should there not be a way to manage that more automatic? Did I miss that in the manual? -- BOFH excuse #277: Your Flux Capacitor has gone bad. -- Try New Relic Now We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: sharing data between bbdb records
On Mon May 27 2013 Gijs Hillenius wrote: Very happy user of bbdb, but one with a one long-standing question. Consider two or three records, that share some information, Me too, I have been annoyed by this. Yet you did not miss anything. Currently BBDB does not allow that multiple records share some information so that this can be entered and updated only once. Such a feature reqires substantial modifications of BBDB internals, including the data format. Roland -- Try New Relic Now We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: sharing data between bbdb records
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes: On Mon May 27 2013 Gijs Hillenius wrote: Very happy user of bbdb, but one with a one long-standing question. Consider two or three records, that share some information, Me too, I have been annoyed by this. Yet you did not miss anything. Currently BBDB does not allow that multiple records share some information so that this can be entered and updated only once. Such a feature reqires substantial modifications of BBDB internals, including the data format. Could the organization field, instead of being a string, actually be a link (or a search-string) to a separate record? Then when you display an individual record that links to that organization, there could be a display-only, virtual work address shown for that individual. Gets you partway there, anyway. -- Try New Relic Now We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
