Re: [Evolution] Evolution autocompletion

[Srikanth Madugundi <msrikant sun com>]

It doesn't work for me. I did the following
$ Killev

open ~/evolution/config.xmldb

add the following lines under <bonobo-config> suffix
<section path="/Addressbook/Completion">
<entry name="uri" type="string"
value="ldap://localhost:389/ou=people,o=abc.com??sub"/>
</section>

When I open evolution the above entries in config.xmldb are removed.

TIA
-srikanth
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 21:34, Paul Hands wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It was broken in a couple of versions, but I now use 1.05.
> It now works fine for me from our company LDAP server. 
>
> I simply added the line 
>
> <entry name="uri" type="string"
> value="ldap://ldap.cadence.com:389/ou=people,o=cadence.com??one"/> 
>
> to the config.xmldb file as advised in the knowledge base. 
> The trick is knowing what the search base (in this
> case"ou=people,o=cadence.com") and search scope ("one") are - they are
> company specific, so you need to ask whoever set up your LDAP server. 
>
> The way I did it was to set up the LDAP server in other conatcts in the
> GUI.  Once that was working, I copied the settings to the config.xmldb
> file as above. 
>
> If you really get desperate, you can use Ldapsearch to download a
> complete LDIF of your LDAP server data and import it into local
> contacts. Of course, to do that, you need the parameters as before.....
>
> HTH,
>
> Paul
>
> Just in case,here's the text from the knowledge base........
>
> How do I make Evolution search my LDAP directory for addresses?  
> Question   My company has an LDAP server which we use to track people's
> contact information. I've set up Evolution so it has access to the
> directory, but when I'm writing an email, it never performs address
> searches on the LDAP directory. How do I configure this?   Answer   It
> is possible to change the search path for address lookups in the
> composer, but it isn't supported by Ximian at at this time. In fact,
> there isn't a GUI yet, and this solution could change in future versions
> of Evolution. Follow these instructions:
>
>     * Exit Evolution and run the following command:
>
> $ killev
>
>     * Add the following line to your ~/evolution/config.xmldb:
>
>       <section path="/Addressbook/Completion">
>       <entry name="uri" type="string"
> value="ldap://localhost:389/dc=toshok,dc=org??one"/>
>       </section>
>
> NOTE: Change the URL to match the addressbook URL you want to use. With
> LDAP URLs it has to be formatted using the correct syntax for your
> system. 
>
>
> On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 13:29, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote: 
> > The only thing that is really SURE now:
> > 
> > - Nobody knows how to do that...
> > 
> > Anyone that have AUTOCOMPLETION *working*?
> > 
> > Thanks to share experiences.
> > -jec
> > 
> > PS: Autocompletion means: You have a friend called mike myers bla com ,
> > type "mik" in the address field and the rest "e myers bla com" is auto
> > completed so you DON'T HAVE TO TYPE IT!
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Srikanth Madugundi                   srikanth madugundi sun com
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