Convergence Address Book customization.

I have disabled "Personal Address Book" option under Address Book. Now, when I login and click on Address Book Service, ViewerContainer pane shows a blank page. How do I set default page to be loaded for ViewerCOntainer?.
I see this issue only when PAB is disabled.
Thanks

colinlin97 wrote:
I had installed Convergence and found that the corp Address book shows only person and group entry.What version of Convergence are you running (./iwcadmin -V)?
How many people/group entries is the Corporate Address Book meant to display?
I am planning to replace the old webmail application with Convengence but our end users were used to browse the whole organization structure tree with ou and groups.Which "old webmail" are you referring to? UWC/CE or Messenger Express or some other third-party product?
Is it possible to customize Convergence Address book so that it will show the whole organization structure tree? No. The Corporate Directory interface is not designed to display the underlying LDAP organisation structure.
Regards,
Shane.

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colinlin97 wrote:
I had installed Convergence and found that the corp Address book shows only person and group entry.What version of Convergence are you running (./iwcadmin -V)?
How many people/group entries is the Corporate Address Book meant to display?
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Convergence Address Book issue

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./iwcadmin -V
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One of our users has reported that if she goes into the address book the first contact is already automatically selected, this leads to unintended recipients getting the email, I have had a look at the Convergence 2 demo and this is still the case. Is this the desired behaviour or is it a bug?
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dubred wrote:
One of our users has reported that if she goes into the address book the first contact is already automatically selected, this leads to unintended recipients getting the email, I have had a look at the Convergence 2 demo and this is still the case. Is this the desired behaviour or is it a bug?This is the expected behaviour. There is an existing Request For Enhancement to have this behaviour configurable.
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Please raise this RFE with your Sun/Oracle account manager.
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Shane.

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libimta.so 7.0-3.01 32bit (built 09:08:43, Dec 9 2008)
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luk4s1984 wrote:
System Messaging Server 7.0-3.01 32bit (built Dec 9 2008)
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Sun Java(TM) System Communications Express 6.3 What is the exact patch level of UWC/CE (./showrev -p | grep uwc)?
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Access the CE Address Book outside of CE

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I have searched high and low and have not been able to find anything outside of CE that is capable of accessing the CE AB. In my search, I came across the Sun Portal AB channel and the CE Sync but neither of these fits our needs. Ideally, we would like to be able to access the AB using Thunderbird.
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Kamil.

kamiljdk wrote:
I have searched high and low and have not been able to find anything outside of CE that is capable of accessing the CE AB.The Comms-Express (and Convergence) address-book uses a private interface (WABP) so only Sun products make use of it e.g. Sun Outlook Connector, Sync and so forth.
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Edited by: th14 on Oct 30, 2009 8:00 AM

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Hello,
I am just wondering, is there any way to make an application-wide change to the Address Book's terminology of entires? Eg, I want "cell" instead of "cell" and "im" instead of "other"—I know I can make changes to individual entires but is there any way to customize them all, to apply to future entries as well?
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While it is theoretically possible, the answer is generally no. Such attributes or properties are defined by schemas, and changing their characteristics can result in catastrophic problems, including data corruption and loss, the loss of data interchange though the Sync Services framework, and the inability to export standardized files such as vCal and vCard records.
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How do I customize the toolbar in my address book in Leopard? Is it gone?

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Good Morning,
We are currently running Convergence patch 4 and i noticed a small issue the the Address book. In particular the corporate directory,
when highlighting the corp directory tab in convergence there is an option to "add to address book" function.
When clicking on this button, it will throw an error stating "Save contact failed".
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ADDRESS_BOOK: DEBUG from com.sun.comms.client.ab.wabp.WABPEngine Thread httpSSLWorkerThread-8080-4 ipaddress=some.ip.address.com sessionid=60c7655bd8b9c09e42eddc1f3863 at 11:24:57,811- cookie = JSESSIONID=60c7655bd8b9c09e42eddc1f3863; iwc-auth=lang=en-us:token=moU4GZopM7:path=/iwc
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Address book groups: can't customize contacts with multiple email

I have many groups setup in address book and frequently like to use them. Additionally, several of my contacts assigned to groups have multiple email addresses. Is there a way to specifiy which email address of a contact's associates itself with the group? I have not been able to figure this out and am aggravated when I send out personal emails to my friends' work addresses, much to their chagrin.
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chesternd08 wrote:
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JCV_ wrote:
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Hello
I'm a teacher and like to create contacts for my students. The information that I want in each contact besides their name, email address and phone number are their
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All this information I can download from the school's server in a CSV file.
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