Re: [Evolution] LDAP server update with Evolution

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

Ahhh, ok.  Now I understand your problem.  I just spent a while digging
around the contact editor and the ldap backend, and have discovered that
this one is going to be a really tough bug to fix given the way ECard
parses the name on its own and figures out what the surname is - there's
no easy, non-disgusting way (that I can think of at the moment) for the
ldap backend to deal with this..  We could just set the name->family to
NULL then reparse from "full_name", but that'll break users that use the
full name dialog to enter names that would parse differently if
evolution did it.

Simple workaround in the meantime - put your cursor in the full name
field and insert then delete a space :)  just something to change the
field so evo will reparse it.

Chris

On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 17:22, Joaquim Fellmann wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 01:41, Chris Toshok wrote:
>
> > Hm, but that's exactly what I did with my test..  The cn was "Account"
> > and I changed it to "Account Test" without clicking on the button and it
> > worked (sn shows up as "Test").
>
> Here it is:
>
> You're right, I tried with an existing ldap entry which has a 
> cn=John and I add "Smith" in evolution it works great (adding to the
> LDAP server with Smith as sn)
>
> BUT
>
> my existing ldap entry already has a cn = "John Smith"
> Hence the "Full Name" field is already filled with "John Smith"
> And from this full name evolution doesn't pick up the sn. That's the
> problem.
>
> Try this
>
> Add the following to your LDAP server
>
>       dn: uid=accounttest,dc=xtoph,dc=org
>       uid: accounttest
>       objectClass: top
>         objectClass: account
>         objectClass: posixAccount
>         uidNumber: 1001
>         gidNumber: 1001
>         homeDirectory: /home/toshok
>         cn: Account Test
>
> Go to evolution and try everything you can to add an email address.
> I bet you can't ;-)