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

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 12:07, Paul Legato wrote:
> Thing is, the form works fine over here when editing a local contact. 
> The back end is there, it's just being disabled for some reason when 
> editing an LDAP based contact. My guess is that the LDAP module in 
> Evolution thinks that it doesn't have permission to edit (for some 
> reason), and thus it disables those boxes. The popups were probably not 
> disabled as well due to some oversight.
>
> Maybe someone on evolution-hackers could direct us to the specific area 
> of code involved?

Evolution doesn't query ACL's or anything to figure out if you have
permissions to write/modify/query/etc, because unfortunately I know of
no way to query a server for acl's...  So we go based on whether or not
you've authenticated.  You have to authenticate in order to
modify/create entries.

A way to tell if the ldap code thinks you have permissions is the state
of the delete button in the contact editor.  If it's greyed out you
didn't authenticate.  If it's enabled, you have permissions, and greyed
out fields in the contact editor are caused by schema problems I alluded
to in my previous mail.

> Mark Foster wrote:
>
> > Same here (no experience). This looks useful -
> > http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/
> >
> > Without having looked at the source all I can reckon is that the form
> > fields are mostly disabled on account of the callbacks hadn't been put
> > in, or in otherwords the form doesn't actually work. There's a good
> > change the form was simply designed in glade but none of the backend
> > code for it was built. Can anyone verify this?
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 08:32, Paul Legato wrote:
> >
> > > 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?
>
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