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Software-built Business Directories There has been a lot of talk about software being developed to build business directories from the structured fields held in the "Keywords" section of .tels. This currently contains the following data: name, address, business address, business information, directory information, hobbies & interests, free text. But to build any form of "yellow pages" style directory you need to be able to identify which business classification (from a finite list) applies to a business. There is "Business Area" under the Directory Information heading, but this is a free format field. If Telnic could incorporate a dropdown list of univerally-accepted Business Classifications then the chance of software-built structured business directories being developed would IMO be substantially increased. Could this be incorporated in the next release of the CTH control panel? Mike Seaton |
Pre-defined dropdown list for Country Quote:
One further dropdown field needed to enable software to read it are the two Country fields which feature under "Address" and "Business Address". As it stands any software building a directory has to allow for every conceivable way someone might input a country name into a free-format field eg: for United States it could be: US, USA, US of A, United States, United States of America, America. Multiply the various ways of inputting a country's name by the number of countries and you have an unnecessary level of complexity for software attempting to build a directory to contend with - so much easier to have a pre-defined dropdown list. Hopefully Telnic can rectify this lack of pre-defined dropdown lists for Business Area and Country soon. Mike Seaton[/size] |
