[horde] Addressbooks and Free/Busy-Urls

[Stephan]

Am 29.03.2012 22:00, schrieb Arnold Krille:
> Hi all,
>
> hope this is the right place to ask...
>
> We are evaluating horde for our groupware needs.
> The users come from an ldap, I defined a shared directory from the ldap
> to also publish users (and other entries) as address-book.
> Since all users (and their mail-accounts) come from one directory, I
> don't understand why horde makes a fuzz about free/busy-urls? It knows
> the users and their calendars (and their imap), why doesn't it know
> about their fburls by default? Especially since its providing them?
> I got it working by adding the urls two one or two test-accounts by
> hand, but I can't possibly bother my users with this (it will be N^2
> urls to manage for all the contacts in all the individual address-books).
>
> I currently see two solutions for my problem:
> 1. Adopt the ldap-schema to provide the urls and fill them by hand.
> 2. Create a custom addressbook source that subclasses the ldap source
> but provides the fburls automatically.
>
> I think 1) is ugly. Has anyone done 2)? Do I really have to write a new
> resource or can I just add the field to the current config for
> ldap-address-books?
>
> Thanks for your answers,
>
> Arnold

Hi,

if I understand you correctly then I would suggest neither one of the 
above. I did an automatic creation of fburls a while ago with ldap as 
backend. It goes like this: you map fburl in turba's backends.local.php 
to the uid. In turba's hooks.php you take the decode_attribute function 
and prepend the url of your needs. Done.

Regards
Stephan