[#6441] automatically detect available address books
Summary automatically detect available address books
Queue Kronolith
Queue Version 2.2-RC2
Type Enhancement
State Rejected
Priority 1. Low
Owners
Requester michael (dot) redinger (at) uibk (dot) ac (dot) at
Created 03/13/2008 (59 days ago)
Due
Updated 04/02/2008 (39 days ago)
Assigned
Resolved 04/02/2008 (39 days ago)
Attachments kronolith-autoaddressbook.diff Download
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04/02/2008 Jan Schneider Comment #4
State ⇒ Rejected		 Reply to this comment
This *is* already a configuration option, because admins can set default values for this preference.
03/19/2008 michael (dot) redinger (at) uibk (dot) ac (dot) at Comment #3 Reply to this comment
Hm, I think it would be a good idea to make this configurable (on a per config/installation basis, not as a user setting): On the one hand some people might experience performance issues (we do not - at least so far), on the other hand I think this is the behaviour the user would expect ("if I add someone's free/busy info to the address book, it should be used when looking for free/busy informtion").

If you are interrested, I could change the patch and make it a config option.

Michael
03/13/2008 Chuck Hagenbuch Comment #2
State ⇒ Feedback		 Reply to this comment
We have previously rejected functionality like this because it can be pretty performance-intensive to search every available address book.
03/13/2008 michael (dot) redinger (at) uibk (dot) ac (dot) at Comment #1
New Attachment: kronolith-autoaddressbook.diff Download
Patch ⇒ 1
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Queue ⇒ Kronolith
Summary ⇒ automatically detect available address books
Type ⇒ Enhancement
Priority ⇒ 1. Low
State ⇒ New		 Reply to this comment
This is a feature enhancement patch for what I originally thought was a bug (see bug 6429) ...

If no address book search sources are set in the preferences (search_sources), use all available address books for searching the addresses and for looking up free/busy.

If you think this patch is ok, it might also be interresting for imp (did not have a look at the imp code, but I know I had to configure the address books there, too).