Public Folders: Contacts

[trig]

HI,

Is it possible to create a public folder of type 'contacts' so that all users on my system can update with contacts they talk to.. LIke a global 'public' address book.

Thanks

[florian]

Yes. Using Outlook and/or SWA and the user needs to be a premium user to access public folders.

Access rights to the public folder can only be set using Outlook or the command line as of Scalix 10, as of Scalix 11 you'll also be able to setup permissions using SWA.

Cheers,
Florian.

[trig]

if a message is returned that says

'you are not authorised to create objects'

what do i do?

[florian]

where does that message appear?

obviously, the user that you are logged in as does not have sufficient access rights?

-- f.

[trig]

where does that message appear?

obviously, the user that you are logged in as does not have sufficient access rights?

-- f.

when in outlook trying to make a public folder.. do they need to be admin to do that?

[florian]

yes, initially only admin accounts have the right to do that. the admin then allows normal users to create subfolders.

-- f.

[hkphooey]

I'd like to be able to do this as well. I've been reading the FAQ, Wiki, Manuals and Forums for about a day and have still not been able to figure out how to do this from the command line (we aren't using Outlook Connector, only SWA).

I've set up all users as Premium users. This introduces a public Folder to their Folder list. Good so far. However trying to add a Sub-folder with SWA fails.

I've added a Public Folder using

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omaddbb -s SharedContacts

This then shows up using omlistbbs and omshowbb -n 1

I now gather I have to set the permissions on this. I've tried the following

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ommodacln -t bb -l ":SharedContacts" -g local -c read
ommodacln -t bb -l ":SharedContacts" -g local -c see


.etc, but that does'nt seem to work. I think I must have misunderstood something. Can anyone put me out of my misery? I'll summarise and add to the wiki once I get to a solution.

** Later **
I tried installing Outlook Connector ... well I had to install Outlook first, but now its done. Anyway, so now it seems I can see the folder SharedContacts as a subfolder within the Public Folders Folder. I can even change the permissions of it. However ... it is a Mail and Post items folder, and I need a Contacts folder. What have I misunderstood here? Once again, I'll summarise any replies and change it into a howto in the wiki.

[dannyt]

Hi,

If you want to create a folder for the purpose of storing contacts, the folder should be created from Outlook and set to 'Contacts' type. You can also use Outlook to set the permission so that other users can read (or create new contact if appropriate). This means that you use Outlook to 'manage' the folder rather than CLI such as omaddacln, etc.

Hope that helps,
Danny