Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] HEAD setup app

[Ralf Becker]

Alex Borges (lex) schrieb:
> > not sure, that's not much detail :)
> >
> > I really have no idea what would make a good contact management system, and all 
> > i
> > have are the specs for this project which are not very demanding.  I just like
> > making use of exsisting code whenever i can, reinventing the wheel is never any 
> > fun.
>
>
> Well.... the only real requirement that i can gather from users so far
> are:
> 1.- Companies -> Individuals relationship is a must
> 2.- True LDAP compatibility is a must.
>
> The first meaning i should be able to browse through all the contacts of
> a given organization be it through filtering...etc. That i probably
> should have acl right to the contacts pertaining to a particular
> organization before i can edit/delete/view contacts. 
>
> The second meaning i should be able to plug phpgw into any existing ldap
> directory with person, orgperson, inetorgparson entries and to search
> using phpgw as a frontend and everything should be transparent and
> exactly the same as if the contacts where on sql. I should also be able
> to sync with an existing ldap directory and trun its entries into phpgw
> contacts. 

So we can NOT change the field or the db-format of one entry containing 
the company as well as the personal data, as we would violate the 
existing LDAP-schemas.
That means an approach as addbook uses, to split the company and the 
individual entry (normalize the db) would not work (at least not for LDAP).

As far as I see, we had to duplicate the company entries in each 
individual entry and change them all, if someone edits the company data 
of one of the entries. This is not realy a good concept, but might work 
if the changes are ONLY made from within phpgw and we should use this 
approach only in the LDAP-contacts-class and not in the SQL version.

None of that would influence the display of the contacts as many 
individuals belonging to one organization (as eg. addbook does it), as 
this can be done internaly with a query.

Maybe someone the more LDAP knowhow (knecke, ...) can comment on that.

> Those are really my only priorities right now... so, this also calls for
> discussion with other contact backend developers like ralph and 
> knschke (sigh, will i ever get it right)
>
> Lex
>
>
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