Hi everybody,

I just spent a few hours beating my OpenLDAP installation so I could store my addressbook in it. When I finally sorted out all ACL problems, I happily went to KAddressBook to configure an LDAP address book. Entered bind DN and password and all necessary data for it to work, and indeed it worked. Now I can save my contacts on my LDAP and access them from wherever I want to.

But, KAddressBook does not under any circumstances store my contact's birthday or anniversary dates. I googled around and found out that there's no golden-rule-one-size-fits-all schema for this, bit I did found out that there are some schemas out there that support it (namely, Evolution's one).

So I figured "ok, all I have to do is define the schema/extra attritubes on my LDAP and then I'm ready to go". But messing around with KAddressBook, I found no way to tell it to map my contacts' birthday field to an X field on my LDAP.

Is this supposed to be like this? Why can't I just have an option to map a kaddressbook field of my choosing to an arbitrary LDAP field of my choosing? I'm not saying it should come as a default, but the "Edit attributes" section of the LDAP address book seems somewhat hardcoded/immutable: the fields defined there are the only fields mappable to the LDAP server. I'm practically yearning for an advanced option to let me define extra fields.

I know that there's no "official schema" for this, but why leave the user (even if only the power user) out of this?

Please, if I'm missing something here and this is in fact possible, mark my ignorance towards it

Thanks in advance

GODLiKE.-