Profiles: De-dupe Display of Email

[wrenaria]

Feature Request

The double email displayed in Aggie Experts is sometimes a little confusing for people when they are the same address. I am wondering if it is possible to detect when there are dupes and only display a single email at the bottom of the list of roles when all associated emails are the same address.

If there are multiple unique emails for a user, then we should continue showing them as-is with one email per role. This change would only be for users where all associated emails are exactly the same.

Example

Current	Suggested

[qjhart]

This seems reasonable, but there are some cases I'd like to understand. First, one reason for the current format was so that we could format vcard entries for any roles (like in the online directory; https://org.ucdavis.edu/directory-search/#/peoples-list/atwill )

If the person only has PPS roles, then their email will always be the same, so ordering all the titles together is okay. However, if they have ODR entries, then we order by the directory order (which is user specified), and in that case we could have something like:

Roles:
Chair, Library IT Department
📧 [email protected]

Director Aggie Experts
📧 [email protected]

Programmer, Library
📧 [email protected]

In that case, we want to maintain the order of the ODR, since presumably it's in order of importance. I have wondered if we could leave as is, but only use the symbol, iv the email has been shown before; as in:

Chair, Library IT Department
📧 [email protected]

Director Aggie Experts
📧 [email protected]

Programmer, Library 📧

This seems good, if we ever did add a vcard download thingy. Or also if websites matched.

Chair, Library IT Department
📧 [email protected]
🔗 https://library.ucdavis.edu/quinn

Director Aggie Experts
📧 [email protected]
🔗 https://library.ucdavis.edu/quinn

Programmer, Library 📧 🔗

[qjhart]

Alternatively, for ODR, we can go down list list, and combine all the roles that do have the same email, in the above example, that wouldn't change, but if my roles had a different order then they would:

Roles:
Chair, Library IT Department
Programmer, Library
📧 [email protected]

Director Aggie Experts
📧 [email protected]

[wrenaria]

I think it's fine to limit the simplified email display to only apply when all emails are the same address. If there are multiple unique emails, my inclination is to show them all in the user identified order with the associated role, even when there are repeats.

YES to all these example variations:

Varied email addresses, order as specified by user:

Chair, Library IT Department
📧 [email protected]

Director Aggie Experts
📧 [email protected]

Programmer, Library
📧 [email protected]

or

Chair, Library IT Department
📧 [email protected]

Programmer, Library
📧 [email protected]

Director Aggie Experts
📧 [email protected]

All the same email:

Chair, Library IT Department

Programmer, Library

📧 [email protected]

NO to these:

Chair, Library IT Department
📧 [email protected]

Director Aggie Experts
📧 [email protected]

Programmer, Library 📧

Chair, Library IT Department
Programmer, Library
📧 [email protected]

Director Aggie Experts
📧 [email protected]

[qjhart]

@wrenaria the all emails is probably 95% of the entries, so this seems like good solution, and it's simple as well

@UcDust, I think we now have a complete plan;

• Loop through all the isPreferred entries.
• If they all have the same email, then you only display the email for the last entry.
• If there is more than one unique email associated, then you add the email in for every entry
• Kimmy and I didn't discuss this, but I assume you skip contacts with no email as well. Otherwise you could get this confusing example

 Chair, Library IT Department
📧 [email protected]

Programmer, Library

Director Aggie Experts
📧 [email protected]

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