Option to select default "Work" or "Home" for new contacts

[tdoerschel]

When creating a new contact, by default all information (email, phone, address) is set to "Home".
It would be nice to have a settings option that all new contacts are "Work".
Alternatively the new information fields should be generic ("select type" or "Peferred").

Thanks for the great work so far!

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[nextcloud-bot]

GitMate.io thinks possibly related issues are #277 (Select multiple contacts), #183 (Tooltips for Contact Picture options), #718 (Select the fullname field if it is still set to New contact), #697 ("New contact" text in name field shall be selected when clicking on it), and #451 (Contacts ⭐️ does not work).

[skjnldsv]

Thanks for the kind words :)

I'll leave this opened to see if people really want this feature, but I'm not convinced.
We usually try to avoid adding too many options.

[tdoerschel]

How about setting the default to generic phone and email, then?
E.g. neither "home" nor "work" as default.
This way, no extra options are needed.

[skjnldsv]

Well, it's better having a default that reflect most of the users. The default is set to 'Home' as it is the most used and the default on android and ios as well (iirc) :)

[JC5]

That would be more annoying than helpful really, such an extra option.

[spoorun]

When the 'Org' contact type pref is implemented (#608) , then those contacts labeled as Orgs could have the 'work' type as default, and 'individual' type contacts would contribute to have 'home' set as default.

[skjnldsv]

As this sounds like a nice feature, the requests for this are quite low. Currently there a no plans to implement such a feature. Thus I will close this ticket for now. Too many options is something we should really avoid, and I think this does not fit our app :)

Thanks nonetheless, I really appreciate your tickets! :)