[turba] turba, ldap and activesync

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:

> Quoting Hanns Mattes <hanns at hannsmattes.de>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've configured turba with a ldap-addressbook for the users to store
>> their contacts, which is working fine. I've used the example from
>> backends.php.
>>
>> After synching the contacts with a Galaxy Nexus I see, that only parts
>> of the contact-data are transmitted, some address-data, the first name
>> etc. is missing. For a test, I've activated a locals sql-addressbook,
>> which synced perfectly.
>>
>> I think, I have to modify/extend the ldap-Entry in backends.local.php.
>> Any advice (or a working example) appreciated.
>
> ActiveSync requires distinct fields for the name parts. Your ldap is  
> probably only providing the 'name' attribute - which is mapped to  
> the 'fileas' attribute in ActiveSync. Same issue for addresses, you  
> might be providing only a single address field - which ActiveSync  
> doesn't parse.
>
> Looks like we might need to add some best-guess parsing in these  
> cases, similar to what we do with vCards exported from Turba.

..and this has been added, though it's only available in Git until  
the next release of Turba.

-- 
mike

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