[Kroupware] IDEA: Kontacts has a field to specify where to download their Free/Busy

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Sunday 21 December 2003 11:19, Jon Bendtsen wrote:
> As it is now, korganiser looks for the Free/Busy information at the
> kolab server. 

Yes. Only one (configurable) server will be consulted.

> This means that someone, usualy the administrator, has
> to download the Free/Busy lists for kontacts to the kolab server
> before the user klients kan use them.

The Free/busy lists are published by each single client.
They push it to the server.

> Why not add a field to the individual kontakts in the kaddressbook,
> and then let the korganisor look up the needed information direktly
> from the kontakt's information?

This is planned in forthcoming revisions of Kolab
that there is an entry in the ldap addressbook that points
to the distribution of the freebusy list for this user.
We believe it is a good idea.

> Sure, there might be a little more waste of bandwith, but that is
> solveable by using a proxy server. But this would save administrator
> time, if the download happened automaticaly.

Proxies can be used, yes. I don't see a that more bandwidth would
be used, when the idea is implemented.
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