"the attributes are DN" ...

"Could it be a good candidate for an enhancement request?"

Yes. It's a good candidate for a request. But consider what you're asking
when every other attribute provides exactly the requested result instead of
needle-in-a-haystack... "Oh, you mean *this* needle"

I recommend the department for ... erm... departments or Custom1 to hold
customerIds.



On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 12:55 PM, GARDAIS Ionel <[email protected]>wrote:

> Thanks Gerald.
>
> In the case stated, other steps should be required as the attributes are
> DN. My guess is the DNs should be searched to extract the CustomerKey
> attribute for each, then setting the CSV from them.
>
> Unfortunately it's beyond my Perl capabilities.
> Could it be a good candidate for an enhancement request ?
>
> Ionel
> ________________________________________
> De : [email protected] [[email protected]] de la part de Gerald
> Young [[email protected]]
> Date d'envoi : dimanche 24 février 2013 17:12
> À : User questions and discussions about OTRS.
> Objet : Re: [otrs] Pulling CustomerIDs from a multi-valued LDAP attribute
>
> Oops. ok, not string, SCALAR.
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Gerald Young <[email protected]<mailto:
> [email protected]>> wrote:
> for ldap returning different values for the same attribute? out of the
> box, no.
> Ldap->search returns a string.
> http://search.cpan.org/~marschap/perl-ldap-0.53/lib/Net/LDAP.pod
>
> relevant code in CustomerUser/LDAP.pm
>  my %Users;
>     for my $entry ( $Result->all_entries() ) {
>
>         my $CustomerString = '';
>         for my $Field (@attrs) {
>
>             my $FieldValue = $entry->get_value($Field); # <==
> http://search.cpan.org/~marschap/perl-ldap-0.53/lib/Net/LDAP/Entry.pod *
>             $FieldValue = defined $FieldValue ? $FieldValue : '';
>
>             $CustomerString .= $Self->_ConvertFrom($FieldValue) . ' ';
>         }
>
>         my $KeyValue = $entry->get_value( $Self->{CustomerKey} );
>         $KeyValue = defined $KeyValue ? $KeyValue : '';
>
>         $Users{ $Self->_ConvertFrom($KeyValue) } = $CustomerString;
>     }
>
> * $FieldValue will be the first value for the $Field attribute
>
> changing
> my $FieldValue = $entry->get_value($Field);
> to
> my $FieldValue = $entry->get_value($Field, asref => 1);
>
> makes it a reference to an array.
> to deref
> @{ $FieldValue };
>
> to make it a CSV list:
> $FieldValue = join( ',', @{ $FieldValue } );
>
> http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=30279
>
> At least, that's what I'd consider doing. Haven't tried it. Your results
> may vary.
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 9:40 AM, GARDAIS Ionel <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> According to the doc, CustomerIDs can be pulled from a LDAP customer
> backend if the declared attribute contains a list of customer ids separated
> by commas. (see
> http://doc.otrs.org/3.2/en/html/external-backends.html#multi-customer-ids-ldap
> )
>
> We use an ActiveDirectory as user repository an plan to use the
> directReports/manager attributes.
> That is, for a manager, asking for the directReports attribute return a
> list of reporters.
>
> Is it possible to set the LDAP attribute to an attribute that returns
> multiple values ?
> I guess if not, I should try to adapt Kernel/System/CustomerUser/LDAP.pm
> for that purpose by myself ?
>
> Thanks for your feedback,
> Ionel
>
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