Sharing tags for address book

[Kevn Perrott]

Originally Posted by Rich Graves

I think it's an incredibly complicated RFE because tags are global, not folder or even application-specific, and can be renamed. Imagine the cascading effects. Let's say user A has access to user B's tasks and user C's inbox. All three users have a tag "foo." User C renames his "foo" tag, which is applied to both his email and his tasks, to "bar." What is the right thing to do?

Definitely the logic and conflict resolution would not be simple. I'm not sure if this is possible but to start with it should be relatively much simpler to have two types of tags; shared and personal, to get around it. Shared tags would obviously only become possible when the folder was shared and when someone was tagging, they would need to tag with sharable tags in order for them to be visible by others. Their personal tags would remain but only they would be able to search on them.

[jefft@iri.columbia.edu]

Originally Posted by Rich Graves

I think it's an incredibly complicated RFE because tags are global, not folder or even application-specific, and can be renamed. Imagine the cascading effects. Let's say user A has access to user B's tasks and user C's inbox. All three users have a tag "foo." User C renames his "foo" tag, which is applied to both his email and his tasks, to "bar." What is the right thing to do?

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The implementation details aren't too important, it doesn't have to be accomplished with shared tags.

What is needed is a way to group contacts together in a meaningful way so that two users can each see a set of contacts that are bound together in a meaningful way. For example, all contacts that are in the USA and work in the insurance industry. If I am sharing contacts, I want everyone in a group to be able to group contacts together to make meaningful relationships and share those relationships.

Its could be implemented as a shared saved search instead of shared tags. But the key thing is to allow custom fields so that those relationships can be created.

[Kevn Perrott]

Originally Posted by jefft@iri.columbia.edu

...I want everyone in a group to be able to group contacts together to make meaningful relationships and share those relationships.

Quite... whatever the mechanism, it would be good to have it have the versatility of tags and easy usability but also applicable to tasks, documents etc.