Re: [Evolution-hackers] Address book letters

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

hm, are you setting surname?

sn/surname is required of any objects that list "person" as an
objectclass.

The reason that it doesn't use the cn is that we want them to act like
the tabs on a real address book..  and that's based on how they're
sorted.  which for evolution is either the fileAs or surname.  The UI
can decompose the cn into given/surname in the event there is neither,
but adding that field to the mix would only inflate the size of the
query (and add more false positives in the other case).

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 13:35, Peter Colijn - QA / ENG - coop wrote:
> Ah. Well then, the problem is that we don't have any 'sn' attributes in
> our LDAP server (which is OpenLDAP btw, and we don't have any
> evolutionPerson stuff either).
> 
> I would expect that clicking on a letter would be precisely the same as
> clicking search for "Name begins with" and then that letter. But the
> former appears to search through the 'cn' attribute. Is there a reason
> for this difference? Should the behaviour of the two be different, for
> some subtle reason I can't think of?
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> Peter Colijn
> 
> On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 15:40, Chris Toshok wrote:
> > I should point out that I meant the behavior you expect (as opposed to
> > what you're seeing) is the way they're meant to work.
> > 
> > :)
> > 
> > Chris
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