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Interop is very important – having different schemas to represent the same data hurts adoption.<BR>
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On 12/6/09 10:23 AM, "Chris Messina" <<a href="chris.messina@gmail.com">chris.messina@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Whatever we do in regard to discovery or profile attributes, I want to voice my concern again that the AXSchema unnecessarily fragments the number of profile attribute schemas.<BR>
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I'm specifically pointing out that AXSchema reinvents vcard and a host of other profile formats, which adds yet another burden for developers to map other schema, like Portable Contacts, to the AXSchema. <BR>
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This may not seem like a big deal, and perhaps it's not in the scheme of things (no pun intended), but I would very much like to see AX 1.1 or whatever recommend the use of PoCo-derived schema.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>On 12/6/09 9:54 AM, "John Bradley" <<a href="john.bradley@wingaa.com">john.bradley@wingaa.com</a> <<a href="http://john.bradley@wingaa.com">http://john.bradley@wingaa.com</a>> > wrote:<BR>
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I like the short URL alias idea but I think that may take longer to get agreement on.<BR>
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John B.<BR>
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On 2009-12-06, at 2:16 PM, Allen Tom wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>We also support the user’s preferred language, timezone, and nickname (aka display name – not guaranteed to be unique). I didn’t mention these extra attributes in the blog post since they’re probably not going to be as widely used as name, email address, and profile pic.<BR>
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It would be great if AX had a way for OPs to advertise what attributes were available via Discovery. I ran into Luke Shepard on the Caltrain a couple weeks ago and he suggested the schema and aliases to shrink the excessively long urls. Hopefully we can get this into AX 1.1.<BR>
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