Creating a standard LDAP schema for PIMs

[edwardbuck]

Has there been any discussion of trying to come up with a standard 
ldap schema for address books that can be utilized by ALL the major 
groupware clients and servers?

I'm involved in the openoffice.org project and we recently had a 
discussion about the need for standardization on an ldap schema that 
incorporates the special needs of PIM address books and groupware 
servers.  If everyone used the same schema and associated attributes, 
interoperability and data interchange between pims and ldap-enabled 
groupware servers would improve dramatically.  Does anyone know if 
such an effort has been started?  If not, is there interest in trying 
to create a working group to address this?  I know of at least one 
other project that would also be interested in a such an effort.

Roland, I sent you an e-mail regarding this some days ago but perhaps 
you didn't receive it.

Thoughts?

Regards,
Edward
Roland Felnhofer wrote:
Hi Edward,

the following LDAP "home"-attributes will be supported by the patch:

Internal Name        LDAP attribute

"HomeAddress"        "homepostaladdress"
"HomeAddress2"        "mozillahomepostaladdress2"
"HomeCity"        "mozillahomelocalityname"
"HomeState"        "mozillahomestate"
"HomeZipCode"        "mozillahomepostalcode"
"HomeCountry"        "mozillahomefriendlycountryname"
"HomeCountry"        "mozillahomecountryname"
I hope it helps. After applying the patch all fileds in the address card 
have a LDAP representation.

Edward Buck wrote:

Hi Roland,

Thanks for the information.  That's very helpful.

I really hope integration of the new schema and code changes will 
happen soon.  Looking at the bugs, some of them have been around for a 
while. I guess that's to be expected.

Do you know if the address book patch fixes the no-show of 
homePostalAddress and postalAddress attributes in address book?  At 
the moment, I just want the very basic information to show up.  The 
new mozilla schema will certainly help but support for the base 
openldap schemas should be consistent and reliable.

Are there other attributes from which Mozilla Address Book gets the 
home    address and work address values (i.e. something other than 
homePostalAddress or postalAddress)?  The city, state and zip 
attributes all work fine.

Thanks.
Edward
Roland Felnhofer wrote:

Hi Edward,

here is the meta bug ( 
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157928 ) for the LDAP 
address book problem. You find here the linke to the 3 other related 
bugs (one you already found ;-):

*) Define official Mozilla LDAP schema ( bug 116692 )
*) Change LDAP properties to be compatible / compliant with 'Official 
Mozilla LDAP schema' ( bug 157925 )
*) Change LDIF export so it is compatible with 'Official Mozilla LDAP 
schema' (bug 157926 )

Cheers
Rolanf
Edward Buck wrote:

Hi all,

I was fortunate enough to find bug 116692.  In perusing the 
comments, it sounds like the goal is to make this schema extension 
the official one for mozilla.  Is this effort still ongoing?  Also, 
when will support for the schema be implemented in the address book 
code?

I have my openldap server setup and noticed that the Mozilla address 
book doesn't see the following attributes:

homePostalAddress:
postalAddress:
I'm using Netscape 7.1 (Moz 1.4) on Red Hat 8.0 but am seeing the 
problem on Netscape 7.02 on Windows as well.

Is this a bug?  Exporting a local address book entry to ldif format 
seems to indicate that Mozilla does use these attributes.  Yet they 
don't show up.  The attributes show up just fine in Outlook so the 
attributes are definitely there.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

Regards,
Edward