[imp] Removing "Save" and "Undo" from preference group

[Joshua E Warchol]

It isn't really an option to change the autoresponder system to make
it work in IMP. My only choice it to make IMP manage the data in LDAP 
so that the autoresponder server just works. 

After spending a good bit of time looking at how the Horde pref system
works I can clearly see that the flexability I'm asking about isn't there.
Not Horde's fault, the pref system is very nice. I'd go so far as to say
elegant. 

I'm definately trying to draw outside the lines here. What I want is the
ability for a preference group to be a link. Where I have a pref group
called "Customize Mailbox" now, I'd like to have two that are links to my 
PHP pages. But this would require changes to horde's overview.inc. Where
overview.inc outputs the link (with group set) to prefs.php in IMP, I'd 
have a conditional allowing it to link to another page. Then the pref group's
entry in config/prefs.php would have a 'url' attribute. 

This wouldn't be a hard modification to make, but I'm loath to make changes
to Horde itself. So far all my changes have been to configurations and with
the addition of new files. This makes it easy to generate a patch and upgrade
horde/imp as needed. But if I start mucking with other files, it won't 
be so easy. 

Suggestions?

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 03:49:05PM -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> Quoting Joshua E Warchol <jwarchol@dsl.net>:
> 
> > I would love to use IMP's pref storage for saving the out-of-office
> > message,
> > but unfortunately that would never work.
> 
> Not so sure of that...  I think it *could* work, but that doesn't mean
> it is practical or desirable (e.g. from a performance/overhead point
> of view).
> 
> > My autoresponder system is on another
> > server, and is LDAP based. My IMP preferences are stored on a seperate (and
> > geographically remote) MySQL server. 
> 
> Should not matter as long as the mysql and ldap servers can talk to 
> each other.
> 
> > But from a UI-design perspective this functionality works very very well in
> > the "Options" window.
> 
> I'm borderline on this.
> 
> > I expect to set my autoresponder message in the same
> > place I set my sig and my full name.
> 
> I can understand this as far as setting the message text, but not
> really as far as enabling/disabling the services (out of office, forward).
> But again, I'm still thinking this over.
> 
> > It makes great sense. The user's I've
> > shown this to love it, and don't like the idea of having to go to a
> > different sight to configure those. 
> 
> I'm not proposing a different site, just a different page within
> the same site.
> 
> > I don't want to use the perferences system so much as I want to use the
> > options window within IMP's interface. I could store this information
> > within
> > IMP's preferences and export it to LDAP, but only if there was a way for
> > the export to be triggered when the user updated the information within
> > IMP (which I don't see).
> 
> If you don't mind the high overhead, the ldap machine could remotely
> query the mysql machine to fetch the text.  Instead of exporting from
> mysql to lday, import to ldap from mysql.  Various methods (polling,
> on demand, etc) could be used depending on design constraints.
> 
> > I'll take it there is no way to do this. prefs.php handles all preferences
> > the same way. 
> 
> Not sure.  Still questioning *IF* you should do it, not if you *CAN* do it.
>  
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> Eric
>  
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