nextcloud / nextcloud/contacts
Missing N field in new contacts
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- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Description
Describe the bug
When a new contact is created, you can fill in the name in the title bar. This becomes the FN field.
Many external applications however rely on the content of the N field, even though it is formally optional. To get an N field, the user must explicitly engage the "Detailed Name" property and then fill the fields.
I'd propose to add a setting to automatically add the "Detailed Name" property upon contact creation. Filling it in takes as little time as filling in the name in the title bar. When N is filled, infer FN from N.
Alternatively, but error prone, infer N from FN.
As stated, many external applications rely on the content of the N field so I decided to label this a bug and not an enhancement. Feel free to disagree.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the contact-creation flow and the handling of the Detailed Name property in the JavaScript app. Trace how FN and N are populated and serialized for new contacts. Done means the proposed creation behavior is implemented and the resulting contact contains the expected N and FN fields.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100