[dev] Virtual address book permissions

[Michael Rubinsky]

> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:25:34 +0100
> From: Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
> Subject: Re: [dev] Virtual address book permissions
> To: dev at lists.horde.org
> Message-ID: <20051116192534.qyfsap9z44s4o8co at neo.wg.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain;	charset=ISO-8859-15;	format="flowed"
>
> Zitat von Michael Rubinsky <mike at theupstairsroom.com>:
>
>> With the new virtual address book code, it will be possible to set
>> permissions on the vbook independently from the actual source address
>> book.  This allows an admin to set up vbooks for, let's say each
>
> To be honest, I think you're making the virtual address books more
> complicated than necessary. Don't make them shares at all, this would
> be much simpler to implement, just store them as saved search queries
> in the preferences.

My original implementation did just that, very similar to the way IMP 
does vfolders.  I had it running on a small test server with a handful 
of users. A number of the users had expressed interest in being able to 
share the vbooks so I reimplemented it to use a share as the 'backend'. 
  I thought it would be useful to have these vbooks available to people 
without each user having to create his/her own vbook.  A new 
employee/student whatever would just login to Turba/IMP etc and will 
see a listing of all the people in the Support Deptartment etc...  If 
the consensus is to not go that route then, I'll just re-reimpliment ;)

Thoughts?

> Jan.
>
> --
> Do you need professional PHP or Horde consulting?
> http://horde.org/consulting/
>
>
>