Help me on JIRA ISSUE

[Saurabh Nayak]

Hello All,

> *Help me on this issue.
> Provide any easy to use tool to merge contents from two Contacts in
> system. Compare values of respective attributes from two contacts. If
> respective fields have same values in two contacts then do a simple
> automatic merge. For the fields that differ in values, Show data of two
> contacts in Tabular two section form. First contact is shown in Editable
> fields and second one places in location such that its easy to compare. Use
> should be able to move values from Second contact to first in a single
> click.*
>
> Please suggest me on this issue. what exactly have to do?
> What i understood is that If the contents are same then merge them and
> show.
> If the contents are differnet then show them and move them by just 1
> click.
>  Am i rght?
> what is the meaning of last line of the paragraph?
>  I also have to create a toll fort that, but what kind of name i should
> give to the tool? Could be MergeContents?
>
> Thanks & Regards
> *Saurabh Nayak*
>

[Vince Clark]

Keep in mind that the requirement in the Jira issue is for each FIELD to be compared. So you would not overwrite an entire record, but rather selectively overwrite specific values.

I'm not much of a UI person, but seems to me this will require something like Ajax to create the UI properly.

Here is an example of a record comparison:

Contact Record 1: Contact Record 2:
Vince Clark <--> Vince M. Clark
[hidden email] <--> [hidden email]
[phone] <--> 303.493.6723


Each value would be compared by the user and the user would have the ability to select which value should be kept or overwritten. For example, I may choose to keep the name in record 1 and ignore the 2nd value that contains a middle initial. However, I might want to keep the email address in record 2 ending in .com and get rid of the 1st email ending in .net.

Hope this helps.


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Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:32:54 PM (GMT-0700) America/Denver
Subject: Help me on JIRA ISSUE

Hello All,

> *Help me on this issue.
> Provide any easy to use tool to merge contents from two Contacts in
> system. Compare values of respective attributes from two contacts. If
> respective fields have same values in two contacts then do a simple
> automatic merge. For the fields that differ in values, Show data of two
> contacts in Tabular two section form. First contact is shown in Editable
> fields and second one places in location such that its easy to compare. Use
> should be able to move values from Second contact to first in a single
> click.*
>
> Please suggest me on this issue. what exactly have to do?
> What i understood is that If the contents are same then merge them and
> show.
> If the contents are differnet then show them and move them by just 1
> click.
> Am i rght?
> what is the meaning of last line of the paragraph?
> I also have to create a toll fort that, but what kind of name i should
> give to the tool? Could be MergeContents?
>
> Thanks & Regards
> *Saurabh Nayak*
>