Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Contacts: How to install default attributes for contacts and organizations

Malte,

The requirements document (for contacts or AMS cannot remember which) calls for an admin facility for each user whereby he/she can set up a set of attributes and 'save' them as a named attribute set - rather like a custom data record. These saved record sets can then have permissions set on them so that they can be made visible to any party or group of parties on the system. In this way you have ultimate flexibility in configuration whilst also allowing individuals to create personalised contacts data recordsets of their own.

Thus for example the swadmin could install an instance of contacts, set up a custom record set and set permissions on the recordset so that all users of that contacts instance can use the recordset.

This should be pretty flexible and will I anticipate be added in future versions. Matthew certainly will have a good idea how he intended to approach it.

Regards
Richard