876830 - Avoid/Merge duplicated contacts

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 894851

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Contacts, defect)

Description

[Binyamin]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.94 Safari/537.36



Actual results:

The Geeksphone Peak device lets to "Import from SIM" multiple times from the same SIM. So far it is fine, but - it does not avoid duplication and would duplication the same contacts for multiple times. The same issue related to Facebook, Google import, etc.


Expected results:

Marge duplicated contacts ordering to contact details as phone, email, etc. Avoid the same contact creating for multiple times.

Comment 1

[Binyamin]

Issue under Geeksphone Kernel https://github.com/gp-b2g/gp-peak-kernel/issues/13

Comment 2

[Binyamin]

The same issue refers also to number with and without country code.

Comment 3

[Matěj Cepl]

Well, de-duplication is difficult ... what exactly is the algorithm you would suggest? What if you have these two contacts:

name: John Doe
email: [e-mail]
phone: [phone]

and

phone: [phone]
alternativeEmail: [e-mail]

Should that alternativeEmail be thrown away? I have a group of people (leaders of the Girl Guides group of my daughter) who have all same email. Should all their contacts be thrown away because they would be deemed duplicates of each other?

Comment 4

[Binyamin]

Matej, your example must be merged - keep both email and avoid phone number duplication.

Comment 5

[Matěj Cepl]

(In reply to Binyamin from comment #4)
> Matej, your example must be merged - keep both email and avoid phone number
> duplication.

and what about the other example of multiple persons with same email?

Comment 6

[Binyamin]

Do as do Google Gmail "Merge duplicate contacts" feature.

Comment 7

[Matěj Cepl]

(In reply to Binyamin from comment #6)
> Do as do Google Gmail "Merge duplicate contacts" feature.

Could you describe what you mean? Not everybody sucks up to the ad company.

Comment 8

[Binyamin]

(In reply to Matěj Cepl from comment #7)
> (In reply to Binyamin from comment #6)
> > Do as do Google Gmail "Merge duplicate contacts" feature.
> Could you describe what you mean? Not everybody sucks up to the ad company.

I have a better offer. Implement UI for contacts duplicated data merge.
Keep in mind that real live cases can be:
* multiple persons with the same name and/or surname (recommend to merge it under the same name)
* multiple persons with the same email/phone/address like family or company members (if there are no conflicts between email/phone/address merge (empty specific data case does not count in it) - suggest to merge and offer to keep or change the contact name)

- allow to apply the same setting to all/selected contacts
- offer to save-keep/change settings like - next time do not ask for confirmation, etc. but do it automatically

Display automatically information block while finded any contact data duplication that has not been jet merged or merge saved as canceled.

Comment 9

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw] (PTO -> Mar 16)]

This is implemented in v1.2.