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[address@concealed (Janusz S. Bień)]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008  David Verdin <address@concealed> wrote:

[...]

> And you're right. Custom attributes, as they are designed FOR NOW are 
> just informations that can be defined by users.
> I wrote "for now", because importing these attributes from external data 
> sources seems to be the logical next step. Actually, I'm almost 
> surprised it took as long as four days after the release before the 
> question is asked. ;)
> This is on our main "todo" list for the 5.5 and we are still in the 
> process of designing them.

What about providing some means to optionally synchronize custom
attributes with additional user fields in the database?

For example:

We define first a mapping between custom attributes and appropriate
additional user fields. When a user sets or changes a custom
attribute, the list owner is notified and asked to approve or reject
the migration of the value to the additional database field in
question.

Best regards

Janusz

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dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW -  Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra 
Lingwistyki Formalnej)
Prof. Janusz S. Bien - Warsaw University (Department of Formal Linguistics)
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