[ale] phpgroupware & Global Addressbook

[Nathan J. Underwood]

Ok, we've toyed around with phpGroupware *and* eGroupware now, and I 
think that (as Brandon Colbert pointed out earlier), eGroupware may be a 
better way to go.  It's very obvious that the two share a very similar 
codebase, but the eGroupware just seems to be a more mature product. 
The only thing that we're still having trouble with is the addressbook. 
  I can add entries to the addressbook, and my users can see them, but 
I've not found a way to have new users (added to eGroupware) 
automagically added to an addressbook.  Is this by design?  Is there a 
switch / button / checkbox somewhere that I've missed that would add 
them to some central / global addressbook?

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Nathan J. Underwood
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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