[horde] Default Addressbook issue

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 01/23/2018 01:17 AM, Jamie Allen wrote:
>   Quoting Jamie Allen <jamie at jsdckr.nz>:
> 
>> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>>
>>> Zitat von Jamie Allen <jamie at jsdckr.nz>:
>>>
>>>> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>>>>
>>>>> Zitat von Jamie Allen <jamie at jsdckr.nz>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Greetings, IMP Gurus
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would appreciate any suggestions you have on this. Horde 5.2.22 - 
>>>>>> our set-up is that we have two shared addressbooks, and then 
>>>>>> individual addressbooks where email addresses are automatically 
>>>>>> added.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The problem is that, although addressbook preferences list my 
>>>>>> individual addressbook as the default, the mail preference for 
>>>>>> automatic addressbook saving persistently sets itself to the first 
>>>>>> of the shared addressbooks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I set the preference in Preferences - Mail - Address Books -> to 
>>>>>> the individual addressbook. Log out and log in to Horde, and check 
>>>>>> the setting - and it has reverted to the first of the Shared 
>>>>>> Addressbooks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Very peculiar! Is there any way that I could hard-wire this, 
>>>>>> please? It means that all of our users are ending up with all my 
>>>>>> automatically added addresses in the global shared addressbooks, 
>>>>>> which is causing some confusion...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yours hopefully
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jamie
>>>>>
>>>>> Did you change anything for that pref in config/prefs.local.php?
>>>>> Is the correct address book actually saved in the database?
>>>>
>>>> Greetings
>>>>
>>>> Thanks so much for your response :) No - nothing specified in 
>>>> prefs.local.php
>>>> - Which field is this preference saved as in the database, do you know?
>>>> Thank you again, Jamie
>>>
>>> That would be default_dir.
>>>
>>
>> Thank you :) I have set that value by hand to the personal 
>> addressbook, and here's the interesting thing :-
>> 1. Autosave now persistently ends up in the right destination (hooray!)
>> 2. The displayed value in the preferences shows the other addressbook 
>> where it has been saving it
>>
>> Curious....
>> With thanks, Jamie
> 
> Greeting again
> Actually, having checked more thoughly, if I change the pref_value of 
> pref_name 'default_dir' in horde_prefs to a different addressbook, it 
> doesn't make any difference (nothing changes as a result). Am I changing 
> the correct field in the right place?
> 
> With thanks again

Does the user you are testing with already have a value in the 
preferences backend? Or is that what you changed when you said "if I 
change the pref_value of pref_name 'default_dir' in horde_prefs" ?


> 
> Jamie

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