On 19/11/09 06:31 -0800, Stephan Reihle wrote: > > > On 19 Nov., 14:34, Cédric Krier <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 19/11/09 14:26 +0100, Sasa Ostrouska wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Korbinian Preisler > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > There are cases where only the last name or the first name ist used. > > > > Like in the salutation: "Dear Mr. Wright" or "Dear Monika" > > > > > Except that, think about countries like Brazil where people have many > > > surnames, like Arlindo Milton de Sousa Santos, > > > if you put it like a unique name you will never been able to see what > > > his surname is. > > > > In which business case will you use a surname or first name? > > Well, there will be some CRM-features in the future, at least as far > as I understood. Related to this use is the need to compose some more > sophisticated OO-templates, where for example the field "name" will > surely appear in the middle of the text as a personal address. Using > "Mr. John Doe" in this place doesn´t look very professional. >
I find using only surname (or first name) is not very professional. As you can see here [1], it seems almost impossible to divide the name (legal name) into parts that will have sense for any people. There is some countries where there is no familly name, others where the order is different for familly name and surname etc. And I guess it is because of that, that vCard has only one field "name" and another "formated name". For now in Tryton, we assum that name is the same than the fn (full_name in Tryton) but it could be separated by a module if needed or if someone give a good reason we could make it standard. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_name -- Cédric Krier B2CK SPRL Rue de Rotterdam, 4 4000 Liège Belgium Tel: +32 472 54 46 59 Email: [email protected] Jabber: [email protected] Website: http://www.b2ck.com/
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