nextcloud / nextcloud/contacts

#CRM: comment contacts

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1. to develop enhancement feature: contacts low skill:backend skill:frontend
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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I don't need a fully-fledged CRM but it would be cool to comment on contacts. So I and my collegues can store some data with the contacs. Comments have the advantages that they

  • are an existing feature
  • automatically show the commenting user
  • automatically show the timestamp
Describe the solution you'd like

In Outlook I use the comment field to achieve something like that. But there I have to add my name and timestamp myself.

But maybe it would be cool, if the comments in Nextcloud were stored in this comment field, so external apps can access them - at least for reading.

Describe alternatives you've considered

External CRM. I don't need all the features.

Additional context

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Research direction

Start by reviewing how comments are currently stored in Nextcloud Contacts and how contact data is exposed to external apps. Compare the requested behavior with Outlook's comment field and the existing vCard/CardDAV context. Done requires agreeing on the storage and access scope, then supporting comments on contacts with author and timestamp.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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