On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 20:46 +0200, Lars Schade wrote: > 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.
I'm not very knowledgable about LDAP, but it looks to me like you're using it incorrectly. Using the Name subfields (First, Middle, Last, Suffix) to stand for Office/Company is bound to lead to trouble, if not within Evo then elsewhere you might want to use LDAP records. The field names are there for a reason and some apps attach semantic meaning to them. For example a Name with a space in it can legitimately be interpreted as two names, where the second one can be represented by an initial. This makes perfect sense for given names and makes no sense for the name of a company. You should reconsider how you're using LDAP. The key thing to remember is that a "contact" is meant to represent a person, not a company. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
