[ale] phpgroupware & Global Addressbook

[Nathan J. Underwood]

LDAP was one of the original plans, but they're looking for a very 
'Outlook' look and feel.  While LDAP will provide the global address 
book, I've not found anything to replace the shared calendars. 
phpGroupware does that.


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Nathan J. Underwood
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James Baldwin wrote:
> On 18 Jan 2005, at 11:23, 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.
> 
> 
> Why isn't LDAP appropriate for this? This allows for tie in to most 
> modern mail clients and address books.
> 
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> James Baldwin