Re: Avoiding folks to link new personas

[Xavier Claessens <xclaesse gmail com>]

Hi,

This is one of the big difference between folks and the folks2 project
I've been working on. In folks2 contacts are never implicitly merged,
but it has an API providing merge suggestions. It is then application's
responsibility to apply the merge suggestions by asking the user to
confirm or not.

I would be curious about performance results of folks/folks2 on an
ubuntu phone. Do you have data to share already?

Read more about folks2 at
http://blogs.gnome.org/xclaesse/2013/11/24/folks2-progress/

Regards,
Xavier Claessens.

Le vendredi 07 février 2014 à 18:25 -0200, Renato Filho a écrit :
> Hi guys,
>
> I am working on ubuntu phone contact app, and we need a way to prevent
> folks to auto link personas.
> In the phone application the designers does not want that the contact
> get merged automatically because the user can have added the same
> e-mail by mistake or the personas are different but have the same
> phone number.
> And the auto merge can cause confusion for the user.
>
> My idea is keep using folks, but turn off the autolink, this way I can
> use folks to find the potential matches and link it if the user
> explicitly request that.
>
> The problem is that folks does not provide a way to do that today.
>
> I have some ideas that I would like to share with you guys and if
> possible I can implement it.
>
> 1) Create a property on persona store/backend/individual aggregator:
> Create a bool property on the aggregator where you can set  if you
> want the auto-link on or off.
>
> 2) Create a anti link rule:
> After create the persona set a anti link rule that block the persona
> to get linked with any other.
> Eg: Persona.change_anti_links(['*'])
>
> These are my ideas, I would like to know what do you think about that,
> any other idea is welcome.
>
> I really need this functionality, because workaround it doing anti
> links after the persona get linked causes a lot of problem and complex
> code.
>
> Thanks
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