[Vtigercrm-developers] vtiger + LDAP/Active Directory

[Vikas Jain]

Hi Alan,

We have done some work on this and will be updating the community with
the patch soon. We though have not handled searching users in the tree
but will look into Carlo's patch and see if we can add it to ours.


On 22 September 2010 21:27, Alan Lord (Gmail) <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 22/09/10 10:06, Carlo Beschi wrote:
> > I've forwarded your email to one of my colleagues, who recently took
> > care of a couple of vtiger LDAP integrations for customers of ours.
>
> Hi Carlo,
>
> Grazzie Mille for the reply :-)
>
> > - your customer is right about the LDAP tree searching thing. Please
> > find attached a patch for enabling such feature (we use to submit such
> > patches to vtiger trac - not sure we already sent this one in anyway)
>
> Thanks for the Patch. I've forwarded to my customer so he can test it.
>
> > - the idea of making an extension module is fair, but as far as I'm
> > aware of, you can't patch vtiger core through a module (which makes
> > sense), so ... it's not so easy.
>
> It's a shame we can't overload some of the core classes like the User
> class in a custom module but I can see why this would be potentially not
> a good idea ;-)
>
> Hah - good point. It's a really small chunk of code so I can't imagine
> it would be a huge job to include it in the main vtiger product, but I
> guess if they haven't had many requests then why bother?
>
> It would be interesting to see if this is a seriously needed feature or
> not.
>
> Cheers
>
> Al
>
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Vikas
Vtiger Team
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