When visiting a pre-existing contact's LinkedIn profile, add an option to 'update' the contact's details on Dex (most typically to replace their job title where a contact has moved roles)
Bump! Please add this! Ideally should happen automatically (maybe Dex checks every X days), but in any event there should be an option to grab the updated fields (but preserve other info that may have been entered manually or sourced from somewhere else)
Kevin Sun
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Sep 2, 2021
Alexey User: Curious for your usecase, should we overwrite job title / location, even if manually set? LinkedIn data could be more recent, but we do want to be considerate about how that happens too
Alexey User
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Sep 2, 2021
Kevin Sun: Great question. If the update happens manually (i.e. user has to click a "Refresh data" button or some such), then yes, it should overwrite the title, location, education, etc. For contact details, I would rather have Dex add another entry, because we can have multiple of those (emails, phones, etc.). Ideally there's an "undo" option if the user then notices they overwrote something they shouldn't have - but this is secondary. If you wanted to make this even more advanced (but more complicated), ideally Dex would check if the fields to be overwritten were previously pulled from the same source (e.g. LinkedIn page) and if so, overwrite them; otherwise (e.g. if previously pulled location from facebook but LinkedIn shows smth different), ask the user if they want to overwrite or keep.
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Alexey User
Sep 2, 2021
Bump! Please add this! Ideally should happen automatically (maybe Dex checks every X days), but in any event there should be an option to grab the updated fields (but preserve other info that may have been entered manually or sourced from somewhere else)
Kevin Sun
Sep 2, 2021
Alexey User: Curious for your usecase, should we overwrite job title / location, even if manually set? LinkedIn data could be more recent, but we do want to be considerate about how that happens too
Alexey User
Sep 2, 2021
Kevin Sun: Great question. If the update happens manually (i.e. user has to click a "Refresh data" button or some such), then yes, it should overwrite the title, location, education, etc. For contact details, I would rather have Dex add another entry, because we can have multiple of those (emails, phones, etc.). Ideally there's an "undo" option if the user then notices they overwrote something they shouldn't have - but this is secondary.
If you wanted to make this even more advanced (but more complicated), ideally Dex would check if the fields to be overwritten were previously pulled from the same source (e.g. LinkedIn page) and if so, overwrite them; otherwise (e.g. if previously pulled location from facebook but LinkedIn shows smth different), ask the user if they want to overwrite or keep.