[WAVE-351] WiaB needs a contact management system

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Web Client
• Labels: contacts
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jeremy Naegel
• Created: 20/May/12 16:43
• Updated: 06/Oct/12 13:43

Description

A way to save the contacts you usually wave with, as well as the ability to quickly/simply add them to new waves would be handy (instead of needing to search existing waves to copy/paste contacts' IDs) and would make WIAB a lot more "user-ready".

Obviously a lot of UI solutions could achieved that (a dedicated contact panel under the search panel ; a tab system to switch the left panel from "Search" to "Contacts", etc...).

IMHO the most simple/noninvasive solution would be to add on the participants' info-boxes a "Add to your contacts" button (next to the "remove" button) as the mechanism to populate the user's contacts list. Then, the dialog box used for adding new participants would have to be replaced by a WIAB popup (already suggested in issue WAVE-318) like the one to chose gadgets, where the user would select the contacts he wants to add to the wave.

Issue Links

• is related to: WAVE-318 Replace the "Add a new participant" dialog box with a popup.