Blink Cocoa

Blink contact management has been completely refactored starting with Blink Pro 1.9.0 and Blink Lite 1.7.0.

Performance¶

• Faster load at start
• Faster processing for merging XCAP changes
• XCAP documents are fetched in parallel

User Interface¶

• New Edit Contact panel to manage all new features
• Subscription policy can be managed easily inside the edit contact panel
• New button for creating Contacts, Groups and scrolling to a particular Group
• Cmd L Shortcut to collapse/expand the current group
• Drag and drop possible from Contacts from Address Book Group to Blink Groups
• Merge Contacts when drag and drop a Contact on top of another
• Move Contacts when drag and drop between Groups
• Address Book addresses are aggregated per Contact
• Right click on Contact to start session to any address part of the Contact
• Address Book Contacts can be added to the Contacts List
• LDAP results can be added to the Contacts List
• LDAP results can be appended to existing Contacts
• Contact can be edited when right click on its Favourite entry

Contacts¶

• Each Contact can have multiple addresses
• Each address can have a type
• Each Contact can be present in multiple groups or no group

Groups¶

• New Groups added for contacts with no groups and all contacts
• Groups can be collapsed and expanded using Cmd-L shortcut

Backup and Restore¶

• All Contact attributes are preserved
• Groups and Contact group membership are part of the backup
• Automatic weekly backup
• Automatic backup when migrating from a previous (< 1.9.0) Blink version

XCAP Storage¶

• All changes are serialized and multiple clients can perform concurrent changes on other attrributes of same Contact
• Multiple changes are performed atomically in a transaction
• Implemented OMA specifications
• Contacts are now ready to handle Presence and Dialog Events (roadmap)