(previously posted pre-XPageTips.com on Google+)
I had to solve a pretty unique problem in an XPage app and I am posting my solution to it.
While I certainly do not think my solution is the only one or the best one, hopefully it will help someone else solve a similar problem, learn something about XPages and/or generate discussion on alternative solutions.
Learning XPages…it’s a journey!
NOTES:
More information that might make the solution more understandable.
1) In this environment all directory information exists in Active Directory and is accessed via LDAP.
2) Domino Directory Assistance is used to authenticate against LDAP. All users authenticate using their ID# (XXXXXX) and when they are authenticated their user name is FirstName LastName-XXXXXX.
Hi Russell, how did you do the name picker bit for the "add a name event". Is there an LDAP capable name picker for XPages ? tks, Sean
Hi Sean,
I thought I saw someone had some kind of a namepicker that could get it's data from a bean which could connect to LDAP of course ( maybe ExtLib or Mark Hughes'). However, in our situation, everyone had a n "ID Number" that they knew or could find about someone else and we just had them enter that number, click the button, then the button connected to the LDAP directory and returned the right info.