[ldap] Re: Newbie Q: nested objects

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Ströder
Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > --On Friday, November 02, 2007 12:15 PM -0400 Steve Linberg > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If there's a different way to approach this, I'm open to it, but so far >> Frank's solution seems to be the cleanest, and I did produce a workable >> test of this yesterday un

[ldap] Re: Newbie Q: nested objects

2007-11-04 Thread Michael A. Grady
On Nov 2, 2007, at 11:15 AM, Steve Linberg wrote: The other possibility I was considering was to have a new object type for a "location role", with a location code, a role code, and an employee ID to map back to the person record, but the fact that each of these would have to have a uniq

[ldap] Re: Newbie Q: nested objects

2007-11-02 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Friday, November 02, 2007 12:15 PM -0400 Steve Linberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If there's a different way to approach this, I'm open to it, but so far Frank's solution seems to be the cleanest, and I did produce a workable test of this yesterday under AD. It means I have to parse the va

[ldap] Re: Newbie Q: nested objects

2007-11-02 Thread Steve Linberg
Unless there's a different method that I'm missing, there would just be too many groups to do this manageably with. I need to store pairs of values from a list of about 20 from one group (locations), and 50 from another (roles), from which any combinations are possible, and they have to be

[ldap] Re: Newbie Q: nested objects

2007-11-02 Thread Dustin Puryear
Unless I'm missing something this is best solved using group membership. Why are we forcing an attribute for this? The only reason I'd use the attribute method is if I needed to support unknown values, which doesn't seem to be the case here. -- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA *

[ldap] Re: Newbie Q: nested objects

2007-10-31 Thread Steve Linberg
On Oct 31, 2007, at 6:53 PM, Frank Swasey wrote: Steve, You are absolutely correct that LDAP is very flat and goes out of its way to tell you not to count on order of values. That being said, what the developers have done when they cared about order was to use a "list" type attribute. T

[ldap] RE: Newbie Q: nested objects

2007-10-31 Thread Dean Wells
Active Directory does not natively offer this capability. You'll need to define and handle the value structure yourself. Sorry L Aside -- I initially thought you were referring to a form of linked-values (which are supported) but, having re-read your requirements, this technology doesn't appl

[ldap] Re: Newbie Q: nested objects

2007-10-31 Thread Frank Swasey
Steve, You are absolutely correct that LDAP is very flat and goes out of its way to tell you not to count on order of values. That being said, what the developers have done when they cared about order was to use a "list" type attribute. Take a look at the postalAddress attribute which takes