Bug 342387 - the phones type should be customizable
Summary: the phones type should be customizable
Status: REOPENED
Alias: None
Product: kontact
Classification: Applications
Component: contacts (show other bugs)
Version: GIT (master)
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tobias Koenig
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Reported: 2015-01-01 12:48 UTC by pier andre
Modified: 2023-05-05 08:45 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description pier andre 2015-01-01 12:48:38 UTC
the phones types are predifined and I think that could be a big enhancement to have the possibility to customize them; or allowing the customization of the field or adding a customizable field.
I have contacts with more than one phone and if you want to distinguish one from the others now we have only one mobile or home or work type, we cannot have for example "mobile TIM" or "mobile WIND" or "home father" or "work office" or "work lab".
the workaround is to have more than one contact per person so to add this informations for example in suffix.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 pier andre 2015-01-01 12:53:26 UTC
thinking at the way to have this I think adding a new field seems better to have the actual field customizable.
having the phones type as now improve the filtering possibility, so we can filter all mobiles ignoring the custom type...
Comment 2 alberto 2018-05-28 21:41:33 UTC
This is not only wish list, its kinda needed too

If kontact is supposed to be able to interact with other programs. Any other programs allow custom tags for phones. After syncing with kontact using webdav, kontact silently dropped everything it didnt understood and making some changes to the contatc, it updated the remote vcards dropping everything it didnt understood

Including custom tags that radical/evolution/gmail were able to show and to transfer between them perfectly

Luckily i run the backend where i save the vcards in git and i was able to detect the mess quite fast. Im not sure I want to touch kontact again looking at this policy with unknown data. Its bad enough that is not able to show it properly, but to erase it?

Just add everything you dont understand to notes or something

The severity of this bug should be higher than wishlist imho. In other notes, Should I open a bug about the data lost using webdav or is this bug enough?
Comment 3 VINCENT 2023-04-05 11:55:25 UTC
This functionality is already available in nextcloud/google/cardbook(thunderbird). Could this be implemented ?

It's based on the support of "X-ABLABEL" in vcf files. and is concerning a bunch of fields (EMAIL, TEL, ADR, URL, X-ABDATE)

Some example :
ITEM1.EMAIL:mail_pro@gmail.com
ITEM1.X-ABLABEL:Pro
ITEM2.TEL:+33 6 12 34 56 78
ITEM2.X-ABLABEL:Mobile (pro)
ITEM3.X-ABDATE:19700805
ITEM3.X-ABLABEL:Année
Comment 4 Bug Janitor Service 2023-04-20 03:45:42 UTC
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Comment 5 Bug Janitor Service 2023-05-05 03:46:09 UTC
This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
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Comment 6 VINCENT 2023-05-05 08:45:06 UTC
With the update of KDE Gear in 23.04, i did hope that there will be some rebuild on this subject, but importing vcard still don't work as expected, since there is some missing information.
Not supporting the "X-ABLABEL" lead to lost of data when importing vcard, and may lead to lost of data on various contact server if kde contact upload it's own version.