On Sat, 2021-08-14 at 11:15 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I used to have a single contact for Bob and Wendy Doe, but now need > two contacts, since they have different email addresses. (Is this > really necessary? Comments welcome.)
I don't understand what you are attempting to accomplish. Why not simply create a new contact and revise the old one? > I thought I'd duplicate the contact for "Bob & Wendy Doe); but this > doesn't seem to be possible; file systems allow making copies of > files to other files with similar names like say > $ cp -a foo foo.bk An addressbook is not a file system. > So I thought I'd copy the contact for Bob&Wendy from my Personal > contact list into another list called KeyNames, then edit the two > copies so that the one in Personal is for Bob Doe and the one in > KeyNames is for Wendy Doe; then copy the one in KeyNames (for Wendy > Doe) back to Personal. This fails; I get a message warning of a UID > conflict. Expected; there's no event involved which would trigger reconstituting the UID. Frankly, as a WebDAV/CardDAV/CalDAV developer, this is a flaw in vCard/vEvent/vToDo; there really is not a fully working scheme for id'ing an object. > Well, thought I, I'll export the contact for Wendy Doe from KeyNames > as a vcard and import this back into Personal. This also fails for > the same reason, but silently; if I edit the vcard to remove the > line: > UID:pas-id-419866BF000000A3 > everything works. > Expected. If there is no UID one is created. > I can't be the only person who has needed to do this kind of thing. > Questions: > Would it be practical to allow contacts to be duplicated within the > same list? Sure, but the use case is very narrow. This is easily enough accomplished by the composite action of creating a new contact and editing the old one. Also, again, as a WedDAV/CardDAV, et al developer - don't create compound contacts. When you do so you are violating the object model, which will eventually always have side effects. > What is the function of the UID in a vcard? Is it necessary? It is the Unique ID of the vCard. Yes it is necessary. And the vCard is a 'dumb' object; it expects the client to manage the UID (which sometimes isn't really possible). _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
