RE: [Evolution] usage questions

["Steven R. Ringwald" <asric asric com>]

I believe the purpose of it in outlook is to reference a contact with
another contact. For instance, if you have one contact who is the CEO of
a company, the contacts field in his/her contact might be a reference to
the contact of the personal assistant controlling scheduling....

Just my thought.
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Winship [mailto:danw ximian com] 
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 7:46 AM
To: Marc Williams
Cc: Evolution list
Subject: Re: [Evolution] usage questions

> 1) At the bottom of the Contact Editor, New Appointment, and New Task
> screens (and next to the "Categories" field) is a field for "Contacts"
> which, when queried, opens a Contact List chooser.  I don't understand
> the purpose of this "Contacts" field.  Can someone explain?

I don't understand either. It was copied from Outlook. I don't even know
if the person who copied it understood it. :)

> 2) The Contact List editor has a tab called "Collaboration" with a
> couple of URL fields.  I don't understand their purpose or how to use
> them if someone could explain this to me also.

The calendar URL is not currently used for anything, but it's part of
the vCard and LDAP specs, so we let you edit it.

The free/busy URL is used if you try to schedule a meeting with that
person and use the "scheduling" pane to check their free and busy times.
Outlook lets you automatically publish your f/b time to a web or ftp
server so people can query it this way. (Evolution does not, yet.)

-- Dan

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