How to change, edit, or create new headings for phone numbers in the contacts

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I like to know if there is a way to edit the headings in the first tab of the contact editor? for example under ‘Telephone’ the drop-down list has a lot of options like ‘Business phone, personal phone, etc… A lot of those are not what I need, so my question is: can I ether edit them? or add my own? if so how and where.

I’m on Manjaro Linux and evolution version is: 3.58.2

Thanks

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Hi,
those cannot be changed. They are not made up by the Evolution, they
come from the vCard RFC, aka by using them you ensure all the clients
conforming to the vCard standard will understand what they mean.
Bye,
Milan

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I’m not sure I explained myself correctly, I take an example from my mobile phone contact manager

When adding a contact for a person or organization, I can add more than 1 number, for example 1 number could be home number, another could be work number, etc… when I choose the label, my choices are: Mobile, Home, Work, Main, Work Fax, Home Fax, Pager, Other, Custom. If I pick ‘Custom’ I get a text box where I can type a meaningful label (ie. Accounts, Orders, etc..) I can also send and import vCards on mobile phones - Do mobile phones not conform to vCard RFC?

This was my question about contacts in Evolution - How to customize ‘Labels’ for phone numbers. Could also be useful for email labels.

Thanks, just making sure I was understood

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There are ways to save a custom value, yes, but the evolution(-data-
server) code does not use that, it only uses a preconfigured list of
the phone (and email and other) types.

With the 3.60.x you’ll be able to store custom AIM types, but it’s more
an exception.

I know the iCloud has types Work, Home, Other and School. The “School”
is an exception from the vCard standard, thus they save it as a custom
value. The way it is stored in the vCard is kinda crazy, from my point
of view, as it’s split into two attributes, but it’s how the vCard
defines it. I suppose the other apps do it the same way.

What I’m describing here is the current situation. You can fill a
feature request to change it, it’s here:

I only cannot promise when anybody would get to it.

Bye,
Milan