Referencing contacts from other NC address books

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The Basics

  • Nextcloud Server version (e.g., 29.x.x):
    • Nextcloud 28.0.7.5 managed by IONOS

Summary of the issue you are facing:

We are using NC as tool to manage a music group with multiple choirs. We implemented a role based access control by means of NC groups defined for each ensemble.
Each ensemble has its own contacts address book.
Some members, however, perform in multiple ensembles.

How can we include these contacts in other (ensembles) contacts address books by reference/pointer without copy/paste (export vcf/import vcf)
That is essential for members syncing “their” address books to their mobile devices

Unfortunately you cannot link contacts to other address books at the moment. Instead you can only allow users to subscribe to a second or more address book, beside their own ones.
I’ve created a feature request to use the Teams functionality to create a kind of virtual address books. Let’s see what the deveopers are saying:

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