[sync] syncing multiple categories per contact with synthesis android client

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Mehmet Giritli <mgiritli at giritli.eu>:

> On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 10:17 +0100, Jan Schneider wrote:
>> Zitat von Mehmet Giritli <mgiritli at giritli.eu>:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am trying to sync with the synthesis android client and having a
>> > problem with the categories. I have already consulted with the synthesis
>> > and it turns out that it is a bug in horde.
>> >
>> > In case of multiple category memberships, horde sends the vcard as
>> > follows:
>> >
>> > CATEGORIES:Sync\, Personal
>> >
>> > so, it escapes the comma separator with a backslash. Apparently this is
>> > wrong and it is perceived as a single category as a result by the
>> > client.
>> >
>> > I tried to hack a little bit but couldn't succeed. Can someone please
>> > direct me toward the right location in php code to fix this?
>>
>> There isn't anything to fix. Turba doesn't support multiple categories
>> per contact.
>> --
>> The Horde Project
>> http://www.horde.org/
>>
>>
>
> The problem in my case was that the backend in horde is a ldap db which
> has multiple categories per contact. Currently, in horde I see comma
> separated categories for contacts which have multi category in the ldap
> backend, so I never noticed that it is not supported before.
>
> Since it seems that that multiple categories per contact is out of the
> equation, is there a way that I can filter out a *specific category*
> from ldap source in the turba source.php file so that turba won't see it
> at all? Can this be done? It would solve all my problems!
>
> Obviously, this is different than the current "filter" command that can
> be used in that file since I don't want to filter out contacts, just
> ignore certain category they might have..

Yes, take a look at the decode hook in hooks.php.dist.

Jan.

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