[hermes] how to enable clients

[Michael C. Ibarra]

This setting points to the addressbook, in turba, that contains the 
names of your clients.  When you create a timesheet, in hermes, it will 
pulldown/use all of the  names contained within this addressbook as 
options for your timesheet.

Try going to: "hermes -> Enter Time -> Client". If you have everyone in 
your addressbook as an option, then you probably have your default 
turba addressbook selected (in turba), annoying eh?

You would be better served if you simply created a new table, assuming 
you are using a sql backend, that is exactly the same as the default 
one but with a different name of course.

Call it something else, hordeclientsql or whatever.

Change your settings in turba for "name of client addressbook" to point 
at this new table, i.e. hordeclientsql.

Populate the new table with just the names and addresses for your 
clients, within turba as you would any addressbook entry.

Permission your users to see/use this new database.

Result? you should now have a nicely trimmed selection list.  Of course 
you can do other things with this table, within the sources.php (in 
turba/config), whereby you would prevent importing, etc.

Hope this is helpful to you,

-mike

Quoting "Jens A. Tkotz" <jens at peino.de>:

> Hello Michael,
>
> i see this setting, but i dont know how to use it correct.
> Can you explain a little bit ?
>
> Thanks i advance,
>
> jens
>
>
> Quoting "Michael C. Ibarra" <ibarra at hawk.com>:
>
>> It is a turba (addressbook) setting.  Look for client addressbook, I've
>> created a separate table, identical to the default one, this way I have
>> far less names in the pull down for clients.  Be sure to perm your
>> users...
>>
>> -mike
>>
>>
>> Quoting Robin Rainton <robin at rainton.com>:
>>
>>> Apparantly there is some hermes setting which tells it which 
>>> address book to
>>> take clients from. I don't recall the name, but managed to work it out
>>> from the
>>> comments in the config file.
>>>
>>> I was looking at this yesterday to be honest. I'd like to reduce the
>>> number of
>>> clients in that drop down list and someone suggested setting up a separate
>>> address book for that.
>>>
>>> Problem with that idea is that it has to be done by an admin and leads to a
>>> non-standard install. I'd prefer to add an 'is client' checkbox to 
>>> the Turba
>>> address book config, and have Hermes look at that. Or perhaps take
>>> names that
>>> are in a specific Turba list?
>>>
>>> Alternativly, if Turba could let users create as many address books as
>>> they like
>>> and have Hermes use one of those, guess that would be another nice 
>>> solution?
>>>
>>> Any thoughts? I'm liking the use a list option right now for 
>>> easy/quick fix.
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>> Quoting "Jens A. Tkotz" <jens at peino.de>:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> i am using horde/turba/hermes latest cvs HEAD.
>>>> In former times i used to have turba contacts as clients.
>>>>
>>>> Now i noticed:
>>>>
>>>> * Client  	There are no clients which you have access to.
>>>>
>>>> How do i enable client selection again ?
>>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>>
>>>> Jens
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> _________________________
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>>>> --
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