VCard & Generic Fields

[James Rea]

> And a very important question I still have is, what does the term  
> "generic field" actually refer to?

The Generic Fields wizard allows you to designate that certain fields in
your database contain standard contact and address information (this may
be expanded to other types of standard generic data in the future, for
example calendar information).

For example, suppose your database contains contact information, and
you'd like to be able to use this info to make and receive vcards,
display maps, automatically import from the white pages wizard, dial the
phone, etc. You simply designate which fields contain what information.
Panorama then remembers which fields have these designations, and
various operations use these designations to interact with your
databases. You don't have to use special field names (for example your
City field doesn't have to be named "City", etc.) and you have some
flexibility in field structure (is the name store in one field or two,
how are phone #'s stored, etc.) This makes the system adaptable to your
exisiting databases, instead of forcing you to modifying the structure
and coding of your Panorama databases to conform to these new
capabilities.

For more detail please see page 236-249 of the Panorama 5.5 Handbook.
(BTW, Elon's suggestions for improving the documentation in this area
are quite constructive and have been noted for future revisions.)

Jim Rea
President, ProVUE Development

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