Re: [Evolution] Evolution and ldap - handling of Field givenName

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

Yeah, the ldap backend doesn't do anything with givenName..  The only
reason it does anything with sn really is that it's a required field. 
If you could, file a bug on this in bugzilla and I'll see that it gets
addressed in either a 1.4.x release or when things get shuffled around
for 2.0.

Chris

On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 12:46, Carsten Reimer wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> while trying to set up an ldap-based adressbook for Evolution and
> Outlook Express I came across a imho strange behaviour of Evolution
> (1.4.3). I tried to enter a Contact by using the form in Evolution.
> There I entered the First and the Last Name and pressed Save and Close.
> >From the Ethereal sniff of the traffic between evo and the ldap server
> appeared that evo saved the First and the Last name as a conjunction in
> the field cn. I expected that First Name should go into gn (givenName)
> and Last Name into sn (surname). I am using the evolutionPerson-Schema
> (and core, cosine and inetOrgPerson as well). When I saved an ldap-entry
> manually (using ldapadd and an ldif-file with a gn-field) evo was'nt
> able to retrieve the gn-field. Is there any reason for this behaviour or
> do I do something wrong.
> 
> Thank you for any hints.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Carsten
> 
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