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[#11310] Kolab_Storage: Multiple folders (=shares) with the same name get ignored
Summary Kolab_Storage: Multiple folders (=shares) with the same name get ignored
Queue Horde Framework Packages
Queue Version Git develop
Type Bug
State Assigned
Priority 1. Low
Owners jan (at) horde (dot) org
Requester thomas.jarosch (at) intra2net (dot) com
Created 07/23/2012 (4678 days ago)
Due
Updated 08/21/2012 (4649 days ago)
Assigned 08/21/2012 (4649 days ago)
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08/21/2012 12:29:20 PM Gunnar Wrobel Comment #3 Reply to this comment
Additional note: The Horde applications usually provides a new share 
with a title like: "Addressbook of Max Mustermann". This tends to 
avoid naming conflicts when such shares are made available to other 
users. I feel the Kolab way of approaching this - naming the the 
initial default addressbook "Contacts" - and requiring to distinguish 
the shares by always adding the owner (if not self) is a better way to 
approach this.
08/21/2012 12:09:07 PM Gunnar Wrobel Comment #2
Assigned to Jan Schneider
State ⇒ Assigned
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Known problem and I consider the Horde applications (or the share 
system) to be the bottleneck here.

I did not analyze the situation in detail again. But as far as I know 
the display of shares does not take duplicate names into account. It 
also varies between the different Horde groupware applications. Within 
the applications the display of share names is usually constructed 
within the specific view. As a result you have some views that display 
the share owner and some don't.

Kolab suggests the following scheme for displaying resources:

http://wiki.kolab.org/UI-Concepts/Folder-Listing

The underlying share system would provide the necessary information to 
render the short hand notation described on the page linked above. But 
I don't think it makes much sense to implement this in each and every 
groupware application.

I think the easiest way to allow Kolab users to distinguish the 
various resources is to extend the Share system so that it can provide 
a clean list of display names. This would then be used within the 
different application.

In any case I think it makes more sense if Jan takes a closer look at 
this one.
07/23/2012 08:16:37 AM Thomas Jarosch Comment #1
Priority ⇒ 1. Low
Patch ⇒ No
Milestone ⇒
Queue ⇒ Horde Framework Packages
Summary ⇒ Kolab_Storage: Multiple folders (=shares) with the same name get ignored
Type ⇒ Bug
State ⇒ Unconfirmed
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Hi,

I just created a notepad called "Foobar". Below that I created another 
notepad in a foreign Kolab client called "Foobar" and another one 
below it called "Foobar".

Currently mnemo / horde will only present one "Foobar" share to me.

I'm not sure yet how we can map the folder machinery in a elegant way.

May be use "Foobar", "Foobar/Foobar" and "Foobar/Foobar/Foobar"?

Cheers,
Thomas

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