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Contacts

Package specification Summary for package contacts

Description	Contacts is an application for managing all those people and or organization you need to keep track of. It has a complete UI for storing and categorizing contacts. Each contact can have an arbitrary number of custom attributes associated with it, including other contacts (i.e. a certain contact "belongs" to a certain organization). It also functions as a service contract provider for attributes related to users in your system
Maturity	New Submission or Maturity Unknown
This package depends on:	acs-tcl ams categories general-comments mail-tracking organizations
Packages that depend on contacts	contacts-portlet

Bug Tracker Summary for package contacts

Open Bugs:	2
Latest Bug Opened:	2009-03-19 add person
Latest Bug Fixed:	2005-12-16 Contacts has permission issues.
Top Bug Submitters:	Alex Kroman (10) Richard Hamilton (2) Malte Sussdorff (2) Iuri Sampaio (1) Nima Mazloumi (1)
Top Bug Fixers:	Malte Sussdorff (10) Matthew Geddert (5) Jade Rubick (1) Dave Bauer (1) Richard Hamilton (1)

Code Metrics Summary for package contacts

# Tcl Procs	125
# Tcl Lines	4972
# Automated Tests	0
# Stored Procedures	PG: 14 ORA: 0
# SQL Lines	PG: 697 ORA: 0
# ADP pages	46
# ADP lines	690
# Include pages (contacts/lib/)	0
# Documentation pages	0
# Documentation lines	0

Changelog

Changes in the last 7 days

Release plan

As a lot of people have asked for it, here is a tentative release plan:

Launch last client site of the current batch on 20th of April.
Upgrade existing clients until 23rd of April.
Wait for errors until 26th of April.
Merge contacts to 5.2 branch
Release by 30th of April.

Latest developments

Contacts is subsite and package instance aware
Contacts makes sure all persons and organizations are cr_items
Performance improvements on searches
New searches

Last Interaction
Customer / Client_id
Annual reoccurance (for searching for things such as birthdates or anniversaries)

Support for letter (html/css), letterhead (html/css), label (pdf)and envelope (pdf) printing in mass mailings
Support for OpenOffice mailings resulting in a PDF document

Mail Through

Mail Tracking offers a feature called mail-through. If the OpenACS system has been properly setup to receive incoming e-mails, mail-through allows you to track replies from users who received an e-mail through contacts in the mail-tracking package as well.

Future plans

Release :-)
Mass mailings of OpenOffice documents
Integration into the registration process
Allowing individual users to update their own records (for the groups where this is enabled).
Integration into the various community-member pages
Convince others not to use individual packages like Photobook or Assessment for storing person and/or organization related information. Or how would you answer the question "Show me all parents of my students that are paying for the tuition and have birthday in the next three days so I can send them a birthday card"

Feature requests

ability to sync with contact managers, palm pda's etc

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