nextcloud / nextcloud/contacts
Ability to link contacts to a user [$70]
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- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Description
Currently when you have a contact and a user with the name name it results in this:

How should the user know which one is the contact and which is the user?
Would it be possible to link a contact to a user? This way it would be possible to filter out duplicates like above.
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by reproducing the duplicate contact and user display shown in the screenshot, then trace how contacts and users are listed and filtered; done should include a defined way to link them and prevent or distinguish duplicate results.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- full-stack
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100