Re: OpenGroupware Questions

On 10. Okt 2005, at 17:51 Uhr, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>> How long will it take before this featrue finds it's way back into  
>> Ogo?

Its not a feature, its a separate application.

>> I'd love to see Ogo using LDAP adressbooks.

Well, you can by syncing the information. But a direct link would be  
quite nice too.

Actually there is a simple prototype:
   http://svn.opengroupware.org/OpenGroupware.org/trunk/Misc/ 
OGoLDAPClientUI/

Don't know whether it still works with trunk though.

> I'm not certain how that would work in OGo proper.  You have things  
> like
> associations (employees of a company, for instance), relationship  
> to projects,
> not to mention the whole obj-linking functionality.  This doesn't  
> really map
> well (or at all) onto an LDAP DSA.

Yes, the links would need to be in the database. But instead of  
pointing to primary keys of other database records, they would need  
to point to external objects (eg using LDAP URLs). The API is  
prepared for that in a lot of places.

This is a lot of work, but possible.

Of course you loose speed for such objects because you can't do joins  
over distributed datasources and you loose referential integrity (and  
possible get 'dead' links).

> Of course, I don't even know if SOGo offers equivalent functionality.

No, it doesn't. Depth in functionality/scalability/speed are more or  
less mutually exclusive, you can just have two of them.

Greets,
   Helge
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