20110823¶

renamed Attendance to Attendee and AttendanceRole to AttendeeRole because an “attendance role” is a sheet where attendees write their name. AttendeeRole is the role attributed to an attendee.
Attendee is a lino.modlib.contacts.models.ContactDocument, not a lino.modlib.contacts.models.PartnerDocument.
New demo fixture for lino_xl.lib.cal adds some examples of lino_xl.lib.cal.AttendeeRole.
lino.modlib.users.models.User is now also a Contact. We changed the default value of next_partner_id from 1 to 100, otherwise the demo fixtures would fail when creating a first Person because the users demo fixture had previously created some users who got ids 1, 2 and 3.

Different Contacts with same email address¶

What happens it two contacts have the same email address? The first version of lino.modlib.email (before yesterday) showed all emails on each contact because MailsByPerson and MailsByCompany were based on the email address field of Recipient. The new version not, it shows the emails based on the contact ForeignKey field of Recipient. This behaviour seems more user-friendly, but we will have a problem for triaging incoming mails: if a recipient’s address exists on more than one Contact, Lino will have to decide which of them to use as ForeignKey.

Two contacts having the same email address should be rare in practice:

Small companies sometimes use the email address of one of their employees as primary contact address.
Wife and husband using a common address.

One possibility is to add a checkbox field “uses email address of another contact”, which would cause incoming mails to be attributed to the other contact.

Recurrent events¶

New model lino_xl.lib.cal.RecurrenceSet. Lino has started to support recurrent events, watch_calendars extracts more and more info from a google calendar. There’s still a lot to do.

Projects¶

A spontaneous idea shortly before stopping for today: the new lino.mixins.ProjectRelated mixin. It’s a mixin which sometimes (if lino.Lino.projects_model is set) adds a foreignkey field:

class ProjectRelated(models.Model):
    class Meta:
        abstract = True
    if settings.LINO.projects_model:
        project = models.ForeignKey(settings.LINO.projects_model,blank=True,null=True)

This is to be used instead of making models like Note, Link, Event, Task abstract just to be able to link them to “something application specific” (in Lino/DSBE this is a person and/or company but in fact they always just wanted a person: 14 of 1000 notes currently have a nonempty company field).

In a first step we use this just for Tasks and Events.

Database migration to 1.2.2¶

It’s time for a release because the database migration to 1.2.2 is getting quite complex after all these changes. Added lino.apps.dsbe.migrate.migrate_from_1_2_1(). Tested on a recent dump of real data.

Check-in 20110823