Re: [Evolution] Categories in Evo/EWS

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 08:06 +0000, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> OK, I was hoping I to get a list of rooms in the Calendar Attendees 
> dialog?
> Perhaps there should a Type(Individual, Group, Resource, Room, 
> Unknown) selector instead?

        Hi,
nope, really no way to filter for rooms etc in evolution right now.

> Def is short for Default, this is the Global Address List we get 
> from Exchange under Receiving Options when
> defining an EWS account.
> Maybe this is an migration artefact(we are migrating all accounts 
> from IBM Domino/Notes to exchange)?

Ah, I see. That is tight to OAB URL from the preview tab of the 
account editor. If that is filled, then the "Default GAL" is a 
detected (you should click the 'Fetch List' button beside the combo) 
GAL which can be copied locally. Such GAL gives more detailed 
information for the contacts (still no distinguishment between an 
individual, an organization, a room,....), but definitely more fields 
than with an "online" look up. If I recall correctly the "Default 
Global Address List" is a prefilled string by evolution-ews, when 
nothing was found. I'd not expect this being due to migration, it's 
more about server setup.

> The strange thing is that when we enter the account in Evo we only 
> get one choice and
> that is "Default Global Address List", there is no "GAL Contacts"

My server returns simple "Global Address List", as it's the name which 
it is configured with on the server.

You can see some debugging when you run evolution as:
   $ EWS_DEBUG=2 evolution
then go to the account editor, wait till the buzz on the console ends, 
and then click "Fetch List" button. You'll see what the server 
returns, whether anything useful or any error. Again, to have this 
offline GAL working you should have filled the OAB URL on the previous 
tab, which is usually populated during an autodiscover process, when 
the Fetch URL button is pressed.
        Bye,
        Milan