[ale] phpgroupware & Global Addressbook

[Brandon Colbert]

Nathan J. Underwood wrote:

> We are still in the process of upgrading from MS + Exchange solution 
> to an open source solution.  To do this, we're looking into 
> phpgroupware (I believe someone here recommended it [thanks, by the 
> way]).  We are having trouble finding a way to do a couple of things 
> though.  The current issue is with a shared address book.  Ideally, 
> anytime a new user was added to phpgroupware, their contact info would 
> be available to everyone in the 'everyone' group to view, and some 
> would be able to edit.  Currently though, it looks as if it's setup to 
> just have a bunch of personal addressbooks.  I'm googling (isn't it 
> weird how that's a verb now), but I'm not having a lot of success.  
> Has anyone else figured this out?  If so, care to shoot me a link to 
> the docs that helped you figure it out?  Many thanks.
>
> I'm running the following:
> Fedora Core 3
> Apache 2.0.52
> MySQL 3.23.58
> phpGroup Ware 0.9.16.005

I don't know if this applies to groupware, but in egroupware the admin 
can set "rwx" access by groups. Check those settings. The way I 
implemented egroupware is by creating groups and assigned modules to 
that group. Then I added users, and placed them in their respected groups.