>* (Say I have a list with people to send holiday greetings, one with people >to invite to parties, one with people that share a certain hobby – these >lists will most probably overlap.)
So you want to tag people into multiple categories? (ie. By 'send_holiday_greetings', 'party_people', ...) I would probably keep a separate text file of names of people. Since I have no friends, I do not have a necessity for this feature. ;-) Either a separate text file, yes redundant, but still simple and I'll bet dummy proof as it will force the user to verify the list instead of just assuming those tagged are still your friends. ;-) Also, grep & awk/gawk are your friend. ;-) Another probably better option, enter the custom field with your standard tag item name (ie. holiday_cards, party_people, ...) and then use awk/gawk to search for contacts having those tags. Once a contact is found with a matching tag name, selecting that contact and send to stdout. Try searching for 'gawk|awk abook', and you might find something already written? -- Roger http://rogerx.freeshell.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Abook-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/abook-devel
