[hermes] how to enable clients

Michael C. Ibarra ibarra at hawk.com
Thu Aug 4 05:49:34 PDT 2005


OK, I will polish it up some and add this to my list of things to doc 
within horde.  Please feel free to correct and send back in its 
entirety.

-mike


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

> Hello,
>
> the idea is nice.
> Tough i didnt understand exactly what to do, but i figured it.
>
> What i did is to create a new table in my horde database with a
> structure similar to table turba_objects.
> Then i added a new entry in turba/config/sources.php
>
> $cfgSources['hermes_clients'] = array ( ...... )
> then i added this 'hermes_clients' in the turba config.
>
> After this step i can access clients again in hermes.
>
>
> regards,
>
> Jens
>
>
> Quoting "Michael C. Ibarra" <ibarra at hawk.com>:
>
>> 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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