Perhaps it is my background in telephony systems and current work which
requires a lot of international travel. I would actually prefer to have the
country code, area/city code, directory number, and extensions in separate
fields. This really helps when I need to do things like fax or call people -
my computer can handle the appropriate dial string for me, regardless of my
location around the world. Since extensions are not a part of the telephone
number (as per ITU E.164 specifications), lumping them into a number field
is a problem and does cause the entire call to be rejected by the network in
many cases/countries.
Since most people are more comfortable with having the telephone number as a
single field, I am willing to live with it. But since extensions are not
part of a telephone number (but are needed contact information) they should
be in separate fields. If from a scripting point of view you would prefer a
simpler way of handling these numbers, perhaps the best thing would be for
telephone number/extensions to be an object similar to a postal address.
on 01.8.8 10:01 AM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 8/8/01 9:43 AM, "Eric Hildum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I hope that separate extension field will be added in the next release of
>> Entourage!
>>
>> on 01.8.2 11:10 AM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> Nope. As far as Contacts go, exporting as Text and importing into OE 5 from
>>> a Text file might work, with a few blips: some fields are different but will
>>> sometimes be able to be mapped during import process, OE phone numbers have
>>> a separate extension field, etc.
>
> Why?
>
> Speaking as an AppleScripter, that added about 24 fields which were very
> messy to use. Entourage's understanding of phone numbers is pretty good and,
> at least if you tell it what default format to expect, it understands that
> anything after that is an extension and formats accordingly. It has
> simplified things a lot in removing those silly extension fields. OE also
> had more specified "other" phone fields, BTW, whereas Entourage has more
> custom phone fields, which you can describe yourself, also an improvement.
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Eric Hildum
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