Add to contacts

[stefan-niedermann]

Given you are viewing a conversation in ocsms
When the contact does not exists in the contacts app
Then there should be an action to quickly add this contact to the contacts app

Open questions

• What exactly happens when a user triggers this action?
  • User is redirected to contacts app?
    • Pros: User can directly start editing the new contact
    • Cons: User is thrown out of the "ocsms flow"
  • Contact is silently created in the background?
    • Pros: User is can read on messages in ocsms
    • Cons: The created contact has no name - it is only a phone number without any accosiation

Your thoughts @nerzhul ?

[nerzhul]

Hmmm it's not very simple, i think redirecting to contact app could be good, but i don't know if contact app is made to show the form with some form fields written.

[stefan-niedermann]

Maybe @skjnldsv can give us some input about how an integration could look like?

[skjnldsv]

Right now you can't since we don't allow some url mechanism to create contacts.
You could create a link to the contact if it exist though.
But it could be a great idea!

[stefan-niedermann]

You could create a link to the contact if it exist though.

That's the problem because it does not exist in this case :) We'd like to create one.
A URL-mechanism seems to be a good idea. Maybe one can create an issue in the contacts app repo and link it?

[nerzhul]

it could be interesting to have an API call to ContactManager service which provides the URL

[Diablofan]

My problem, and I think this is similar enough, is that I have all of the contacts added to my contacts but the SMS app doesn't pick up on the contacts and associate them with the conversation.

I think presenting a selector to select contacts (pulled from the contacts app) would be a good idea, leave creating contacts to the contacts app. Having a Create New Contact item that asks for just a name would be alright good enough in my opinion. Creating more detailed contacts should be done in the contacts app.