Re: [Evolution] LDAP Address Book Fields Greyed Out?

[Paul Legato <plegato nks net>]

I'd really like to get this working. Unfortunately, I have no experience 
with GTK, and I can't see anything obviously wrong with the addressbook 
code. Any idea which components are causing this problem?


Mark Foster wrote:

> Been seeing this for quite awhile now. I thought it must be a unfinished
> feature set or a misconfiguration of the ACL on my OpenLDAP server. Now
> I think not. I have had some luck editing and creating new (LDAP-based)
> contacts by either creating them locally in the contacts folder, then
> drag-n-drop to the LDAP server... or by using the phone list view which
> let's you edit the fields.
>
> Soon I hope to roll my sleeves up and (help) fix/enhance the LDAP
> integration components. How about you?
>
> On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 08:57, Paul Legato wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > We're experiencing weirdness when trying to edit or create new records 
> > in an LDAP address book through Evolution.
> >
> > When I double-click on an address book entry, all the field labels are 
> > greyed out and the text boxes are uneditable. Despite this, if I click 
> > the "Full Name..." or "Address..." buttons, the text boxes in the 
> > resulting popup window are editable and do update the LDAP database when 
> > "Save and Close" is selected.
> >
> > Single-clicking on entry fields in the main address book window does 
> > allow me to edit them.
> >
> > The "New Contact" button functions identically to double-clicking on an 
> > entry; that is, all the labels are greyed out and the text boxes are 
> > uneditable, but the "Full Name..." and "Address..." popups both work and 
> > will successfully update the database when I click "Save and Close".
> >
> > The LDAP backend is OpenLDAP 2 and all permissions appear to be set 
> > correctly. The database is accessible through Mozilla, and an LDAP 
> > client such as GQ is able to connect as users and query/update the 
> > remote database normally.
> >
> > Anyone else seen this problem or have any idea what could be going wrong?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Paul
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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