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

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 08:16, 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?

Well, the way things are supposed to work the editting is only supposed
to be enabled when talking to an ldap server that supports subschema
queries.  There's currently a bug (it looks like) that lets you edit
fields even when you're not supposed to be able to.  Not sure when/how
this crept in.

OpenLDAP 2 should be fine - you probably just need to load the correct
schemas in your slapd.conf file.  Here's the relevant portion of mine:

include         /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/core.schema
include         /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema
include         /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema

Those will get you 90% of the fields in the contact editor.  The others
are in the included evolutionperson.schema, which I'd recommend against
using.

Chris

> 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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