Re: Designing people and organization management for Emacs

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2020 at 5:26 PM
> From: "Jean Louis" <bugs@gnu.support>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, "Eric S Fraga" <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: Designing people and organization management for Emacs
>
> * Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> [2020-12-04 19:12]:
> > > Model is designed based on data to enter in the future. If data
> > > changes in the future it is very easy to change the model. Good
> > > example with my experience is that few people that I know over long
> > > span of years changed their email addresses multiple times. But I do
> > > like to have capability to keep those obsolete email addresses as they
> > > are still related to the person and emails of the person. By using
> > > person's ID I can quickly access all email files. But if I have only 3
> > > fields for email addresses I have no space for 4th and 5th field.
> >
> > I meant, could users be able to set their own models?
>
> Users can always design their database tables or models.
>
> In relation to this project "people" I am now polishing the table
> unless there are no comments in the way how I think is best. Then
> users can adapt table if they wish to or make their own functions to
> enhance.

Would need some useful description of making new tables and some functions
that would help users do that.  At least spare them some of the process.

> Let us say there table has:
>
> people_firstname
> people_middlenames
> people_lastname
>
> For myself only lastname is required, and there can be anything like
> even email address, as some people are unknown. It can be
> 'Unknown'. In some countries people must have first name, maybe
> somebody wish to make it obligatory so they can impose that on the
> database level and on the Emacs Lisp level.
>
> Let us say somebody does not want to use those columns at all but just
> one column, that person can add it:
>
> ALTER TABLE people ADD COLUMN people_name TEXT;
>
> and then other columns need not be used.
>
> But my system is enough general that will allow designing any table
> and then editing such table. The minimum requirement would be to keep
> for every table _id like people_id with unique number.
>
> First we have to have good contacts management that is upgradable with
> other tables.
>
> Jean
>
>