Author Topic: Bidirectional address sharing? (Read 476 times)

kenahoo · April 19, 2011, 08:41:54 pm

Hi,

The person who's doing a lot of the work on our contact database has made use of the Address Sharing functionality by having Person A share Person B's address, and also Person B share Person A's address. This does seem to work, but the "data loop" makes me uneasy - is it kosher? She likes it because she can see on both records that the address is shared.

-Ken

Dave Greenberg · April 20, 2011, 05:32:55 pm

Hmm - I was a bit surprised to see that this "works". In the database, you get 2 address records - each pointing to the other as the "master". I played around a bit (export, edit ...) and the only weird behavior I saw was mailing labels. If you don't say "merge same addresses" - the 2nd contacts label is missing their name for some reason.

I would spend a bit more time if I were you testing outputs that you use to make sure no problems pop-up, but seems ok from what i played with.

kenahoo · April 20, 2011, 07:37:26 pm

Thanks Dave. I'm actually a little squeamish about keeping it that way - for one thing, it means that neither person's address can be edited until it's un-shared, which is weird.

I'm going to search for records that have this setup and convert them to unidirectional sharing. Looks like something like the following SQL can find them:

Code: [Select]

SELECT a.id, b.id, a.contact_id, b.contact_id, b.street_address, a.master_id, b.master_id 
FROM civicrm_address a 
JOIN civicrm_address b ON a.street_address=b.street_address 
JOIN civicrm_contact c ON a.contact_id=c.id 
JOIN civicrm_contact d ON b.contact_id=d.id 
WHERE a.contact_id<b.contact_id 
AND a.is_primary=1 AND b.is_primary=1 
AND c.is_deleted!=1 AND d.is_deleted!=1 
AND a.master_id=b.id AND b.master_id=a.id 
ORDER BY b.street_address;

-Ken

Dave Greenberg · April 21, 2011, 12:47:15 pm

yeah - not editable is a good point.

You could look at developing and submitting a patch that displays address sharing info on the "master address" block in the contact summary. I suspect others might have the same need as your user to see this upfront. We already do this in the edit form - so should be pretty easy. Need to think about how much info is needed (i.e. if you're looking at an employer contact record and there's lots of individuals sharing that address, we don't want to list them). Easiest would be to just show that address is shared and perhaps a count (which is what is shown on edit form).

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