[horde] Default Addressbook issue

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 01/23/2018 01:16 PM, Jamie Allen wrote:
>   Quoting Patrick Boutilier <boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca>:
> 
>> 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" ?
>>
>> Greetings
>>
>> I've tested it with two users, both of whom already have a value set 
>> in horde_prefs; with the same outcome - picking them out with : select 
>> * from horde_prefs where pref_name='default_dir';
>>
>> Jamie :)
>>
>>


Right. Pretty sure that prefs in the database will override what you 
have in prefs.local.php . Try testing with a user that does not have a 
default_dir pref in the database.

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