[Owncloud] What are the rules for merging Contacts (and appointments for that matter)?

[Thomas Tanghus]

On Sunday 10 March 2013 14:32 Chris Green wrote:
> What does owncloud do when you import vCards which might be duplicates?

Currently nothing. See https://github.com/owncloud/apps/issues/314

> I thought I saw some configuration somewhere that related to whether it
> always replaced cards with the same E-Mail (or alternatively the same
> First/Last Name) or added a new entry or offered to merge them.
> 
> However that might have related to another program completely as I have
> been playing with quite a few recently.  :-)
> 
> So, anyway, what are the rules regarding what happens when (possible)
> duplicate vCards are loaded into owncloud whether using import or just
> the standard synchronisation?
> 
> Firstly what field (or fields) are used to determine whether a vCard is
> for the same person and then how is the decision made to decide which to
> keep?
> 
> Presumably the 'which to keep' decision is fairly simple, one just uses
> the newer vCard.
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Thomas Tanghus