Forum OpenACS Q&A: Need simple address management

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1: Need simple address management
Posted by Christof Spitz on 01/11/06 01:57 PM
Hi, I need a simple address management package as a start. I tried the Contacts package but I won't install. Since I'm in Germany I don't need all the reference tables to US postcode and so on (that's where the Contacts stucks when installing).

There must be people out there who manage their address lists, too!

If there is no package already available, may be you could advice me which existing package would be a good basis. I don't think I need to store data in the Content Repository to have different versions etc, just a simple table  with an user interface to enter, edit, retrieve and delete entries would be enough.

TIA, Christof

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2: Re: Need simple address management (response to 1)
Posted by Nima Mazloumi on 01/11/06 02:38 PM
A quick solution: A simple table to list all items with pagination and a-z filter, a form to enter/edit items and a detail view for a single item.

The simplest way is to use OAK 0.3 [1]. See the presentation material on how to create a package via UML.

The process is straight forward: first you define the data model and then the hypertext diagram. In you case both is very simple. As soon as the package is generated you simply install it. What you would need to do is to improve the UI of that package.

[1] http://www.weg.ee.usyd.edu.au/people/laetitia/built/OAK_0.3_Built_with_ArgoUML.zip
[2] http://www.weg.ee.usyd.edu.au/people/laetitia/

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3: Re: Need simple address management (response to 1)
Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 01/11/06 02:48 PM
I strongly suggest to use contacts as it works here in Germany and we continue developing it for German customers.

I did not test OAK, but can tell that you can achieve the same result (albeit without the UI) using the package-builder package (which does good listbuilder integration).