[horde] Sort names in shared address books

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Dominik Erdmann <horde_mailing at der-domi.de>:

> Am 09.10.2013 09:18, schrieb Jan Schneider:
>
>>>>> UserA owns an address book. UserB use the shared address book from
>>>>> UserA. I
>>>>> added a new address book for UserB (filled with the same contacts) and
>>>>> shares it with UserA.
>>>>>
>>>>> The sort names option is ignored for both address books for UserB.
>>>>> The names
>>>>> always sorted by "lastname, firstname". (The view names option is
>>>>> correctly
>>>>> interpreted.)
>>>>> But for UserA works the sort option for both address books. For the
>>>>> own ones
>>>>> and for the shared ones.
>>>>
>>>> Sounds like UserB simply doesn't have the preference set (correctly).
>>>
>>> Okay. Where can I set the preference? Under "Preferences => Address
>>> Book => Name Format" I set for both users "firstname lastname" for
>>> viewing and sorting. Is there any possibility to check the correctness
>>> of the setting in the data base?
>>
>> If you submit the preference form on that page, any incorrect values
>> should be overridden in the preference backend. Though you can compare
>> those users' values directly in the database of course.
>
> The SQL statement
>
> SELECT `pref_uid`, CAST( `pref_value` AS CHAR ) AS `name_sort`
> FROM `horde_prefs`
> WHERE ( `pref_uid` = "UserA" OR `pref_uid` = "UserB" )
> AND `pref_scope` = "turba"
> AND `pref_name` = "name_sort"
>
> returns
>
> pref_uid   name_sort
> ---------------------
> UserA      first_last
> UserB      first_last
>
>
> I made a new Horde installation on an other server. I exported  
> UserA's address book and imported it to UserA's account (IMAP  
> authentication) on the new server and made the same settings for  
> name_sort. But the contacts are also sorted by "lastname, firstname"  
> and displayed as "firstname lastname" in the address book window of  
> composing a new message.
> Could it be that IMP does ignore the preference?

No. But what does IMP have to do with this now? Until now you only  
talked about different users seeing different results.
-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
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