Hi there, I am in the process of setting up an LDAP-addressbook for a small non-profit nature conservation group. The LDAP-server runs fine, connecting to the addressbook also functions. But there is a strange problem or feature I need some help with:
To illustrate the issue I start with a local addressbook and add a new contact using the evolution GUI say for the Berlin Office of a company called "The Big Wheel", and I fill in the name dialog as given name "Berlin Office" and as family name "The Big Wheel". It is displayed as "The Big Wheel, Berlin Office" exactly what I want. I can use the this information to automatically generate address labels with openoffice, everything perfect. If I now do the same thing with an LDAP addressbook, things become strange. The corresponding entry in the database has the following name: CN: Berlin Office The Big Wheel SN: The Big Wheel fileAs: The Big Wheel, Berlin Office This looks fine to me. But when I connect to the database the next time the contact information is reread from the database and interpreted differently from the original input: Now the given name is "Berlin" and the middle initial "Office" while the family name remains "The Big WheeL". For other names things can get completely mixed up. I nolonger can generate useful address stickers as the name is split in different parts. Is this a known issue, can I somehow tell evolution to interpret the part in front of the comma in fileAS as the family name and the rest as given name (just the way I entered it in the GUI)? How does evolution extract the name parts from the rather minimalistic information in the ldap entry? Any help or information is appreciated. Cheers, Lars _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
