# Integrating an address book feature to a private discourse instance. Ideas anyone?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/integrating-an-address-book-feature-to-a-private-discourse-instance-ideas-anyone/29629
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [6월 4, 2015, 12:20오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integrating-an-address-book-feature-to-a-private-discourse-instance-ideas-anyone/29629 "2015-06-04T00:20:42Z")
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### Author:  [@jeffreycwitt](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jeffreycwitt)
#### Post date: [6월 4, 2015, 12:20오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integrating-an-address-book-feature-to-a-private-discourse-instance-ideas-anyone/29629/1 "2015-06-04T00:20:42Z")
My community organization is look to provide two new services to its neighbors.
First, they are thinking of migrating away from their current list-serve. I want to move them toward the adoption of discourse.
Second, they want to build an online address book – names, emails, phone numbers, address, and possibly geo-coordinates of houses in neighborhoods.
I want to explore ways that I could provide this information within discourse – thus avoiding the creation of two different sites requiring people to have two different accounts on two different systems.
I wonder if people have played around with an extension like this or can help me think through (generally) a way to accomplish something like this.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [6월 4, 2015, 12:28오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integrating-an-address-book-feature-to-a-private-discourse-instance-ideas-anyone/29629/2 "2015-06-04T00:28:17Z")
We allow user custom fields, so that is a start.
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### Author:  [@Even](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Even)
#### Post date: [6월 4, 2015, 3:20오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integrating-an-address-book-feature-to-a-private-discourse-instance-ideas-anyone/29629/3 "2015-06-04T03:20:15Z")
**Good advice**
Can be realized by extension?
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [6월 4, 2015, 4:37오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integrating-an-address-book-feature-to-a-private-discourse-instance-ideas-anyone/29629/4 "2015-06-04T04:37:24Z")
You could have an ‘address book’ category, with each topic being an individual address.
I really like the idea of neighbourhood organizations using Discourse.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [12월 4, 2025, 11:35오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integrating-an-address-book-feature-to-a-private-discourse-instance-ideas-anyone/29629/5 "2025-12-04T11:35:59Z")