State
alpha
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Open Issues
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Description
This plugin copies data from vCards into the JIVEUSER table. This may be useful if the users want to register them self and can't add data to the JIVEUSER table which is used by the search service. This can of course be abused by every user by entering wrong data in the vCard if the vCard is not read-only. It does as far as I know not work with external user providers as Openfire has only read-access to such sources.
Installation
Copy vcard2jiveuser.jar into the plugins directory of your Openfire installation. The plugin will then be automatically deployed. To upgrade to a new version, copy the new vcard2jiveuser.jar file over the existing file.
Configuration
There are two properties which can be set (not yet tested):
plugin.vCardSync.NameField=/vCard/N/GIVEN, ,/vCard/N/FAMILY
plugin.vCardSync.EmailField=/vCard/EMAIL/USERID
These are XPathes and strings, separated with ','. To insert a ',' one needs to add ',,' to the expression, for "Lastname, Firstname" the expression looks like
plugin.vCardSync.NameField=/vCard/N/FAMILY,, ,/vCard/N/GIVEN
Restart the plugin after adding or changing these properties.
Usage
The plugin verifies and modifies all user data during initialization and on every vCard change if necessary.
Enable the debug log to log all changes the plugin does.
This is cool, but I'm looking for the exact opposite. I'm not much of a Java programmer but I think it would be a great idea to synchronize the JiveUser to the vCard or is that even possible?
SAM