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I have to say, I
love the fact that XOOPS now has LDAP built in with no more hacking! Thanks for this great feature! This morning, I've finally gotten around to mapping various LDAP fields to various columns in the xoops_users table. This is a great feature! I was able to make up some new fields fairly easily by altering the translations for the various instant messenger fields (you know, user_yim becomes "Phone Number", that kind of thing). We have a 'standard' instant messenger here at work, so these weren't needed anyway.
Enough of the long story though (sorry). I've made all these changes, and they work fine. BUT (there has to be one, doesn't there?), the fields won't be populated with all this good information until each and every user logs into the website again. It would be nice if XOOPS would ask you to repopulate all the fields again whenever a change is made to:
Site Preferences -> Authentication Options -> Server Fields Mapping
This way, you'd get the benefits immediately for people who rely on this information. As it stands, I'll probably spend a few minutes this morning writing a stand-alone script to loop through all the users and do this -- but a core addition would be perfect for new users in the future!
Thanks for listening/reading and keep up the awesome Xoopsing (yeah that's not a word, but I'm in a good mood this morning
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