[Rolodap-develop] Re: Personal Address Books

[John L. <jo...@jh...>]

Rob,

It probably is possible with some jimmying, but it defeats one of the 
major goals of Rolodap.

A problem with individual addressbooks in an organization is that the 
same address tends to be entered in many individuals' addressbooks.  
This causes several problems --- Jones is unaware that Smith has the 
address Jones is looking for, Brown has a more current address than 
White but there is no way to tell which is the most current, etc.

So Rolodap uses a single shared database  with the personal addressbooks 
being nothing more than a view of the common databse.  When someone 
starts to add an address, an early check is whether the sytem already 
has the address available for use.

Good for organizations --- but not the place to store your mistress' 
phone number <grin>

John



Robert Brooks wrote:

> should contacts in Personal Address Books be viewable by only the user
> who's Personal Address Book they are in.  Is it possible to run things
> this way?
>
> Regards,
>
> Rob
>