[kronolith] Two config questions

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting cjdl01 <cjdl01 at brokensolstice.com>:

> Quoting Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>
>> Quoting cjdl01 <cjdl01 at brokensolstice.com>:
>>
>>> On the preferences page ("options" in kronolith), under "Free/Busy  
>>> Information", I have all of the addressbooks highlighted under  
>>> "Choose the calendars to include in the above Free/Busy URL:".
>>
>> These are not address books. As the title suggests, they are  
>> calendars. This pref tells Kronolith which calendars to use when  
>> generating the user's fb information - it has nothing to do with  
>> address books.  What you probably want its the addressbooks prefs.
>>
>> -- 
>> mike
>
> Ugh.. Mike, I'm sorry...  Of course. I was thinking of imp and how  
> that package handles this situation (Under  
> Preferences:Addressbooks:"Choose the order of address books to  
> search when expanding addresses.").  I got drawn away in a rush, and  
> cut-and pasted that without review.  I'm sorry.  I'm just getting  
> frustrated here, and it is only one of many things on my plate  
> lately.  I will be more  mindful of that.
>
>
>
> What I want to do is get kronolith to parse all the addressbooks  
> each user has access to.  They are all localsql addressbooks.  As it  
> is now, it only parses the default addressbook for the user.  
> Therefore, everyone's free-busy info in a secondary or shared  
> addressbooks is not accessible to kronolith when inviting attendees  
> (and auto completion doesn't work for them either).
>
> For example:  I have Carl in my default addressbook.  I have Cathy  
> in a second addressbook (selected to be used under "Address Books"  
> in turba).  I create a new event, I click on "Attendees".  I type  
> "Ca".  Carl shows up in the autotext drop-down, but Cathy does not.   
> Furthermore, if I hand type Cathy's email address, her free-busy  
> info is not acknowledged, whereas Carl's is.
>
>
>
> I have checked: "List all contacts when loading the contacts  
> screen?", under "Options:Addressbook".  But this is not achieving  
> what I want, perhaps that is not its purpose at all.  I have tried  
> all the edits Anant suggested in this thread, but I think that that  
> advice was offered because he didn't understand what I'm trying to  
> accomplish.  I think he thought that I was trying to pull from a  
> source other than localsql, and I'm not.
>
>
> Can you please help me to understand how to get kronolith to parse  
> ALL of a user's localsql databases?  If it is supposed to do this by  
> default -- it isn't.

That is exactly the purpose of the various Address Books prefs in  
Kronolith. Do you see all your user's address books in the multi-enum  
boxes on that prefs screen (the "Choose the order of address books to  
search..." section)?


-- 
mike

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