I like option e the best if we have to choose one. Ideally though, it
would be nice to have checkboxes next to each member and a button below
allowing you to only create a csv or vcard with the checked
individuals. This would make it easy for members to keep the numbers of
those they associate with most, or just heads of households, or select
members of each family, etc. AJAX would be an ideal tool to make this
process seemless. (the Manning AJAX book is an excellent read - I
*highly* recommend it even if you don't plan to use AJAX) My biggest
complaint with the current MLS export is I always have too many members
in my address book that I have to narrow out. However, some households
there are multiple members in each family that I want all info for. The
more flexible, and more power you can give to the user (without
compromising privacy), the better is my opinion. Just my $.02.
Jesse
Peter Whiting wrote:
We'd like to add the option to export the ward list from the unit
website either as a csv file or as vcards.
Issues/questions:
1. Most of the text is stored in caps. We plan on just leaving
it as-is for simplicity. If someone wants to propose a clean,
simple, safe way to decapitalize in TCL, feel free to send it my
way.
2. For the csv export, what should each row look like?
a) name, email, phone, addr (one row for every member of the ward) - this
is the easiest to do but might not be as useful.
b) family, head of household, head of household email, phone, addr
(one row for each family) - this is about as easy to do as the above.
c) family, head of household, head of household email, spouse, spouse email,
phone, addr (one row for each family)
d) everything above, plus one large field containing all of the children's
names, and emails
e) similar to above, but each child would get their own pair of columns
(name and email) making each row vary in the number of columns - this
would imply that the children are going to be at the end of the record.
Sorry we can't do unique phone numbers per person - it isn't supported in the
current database.
3. Similar questions for vcard...
pete
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