Resource Booking and Corporate Directory Portlets

Hi...
Our intranet currently uses an old product from Oblix Corporation for a Corporate Directory (org. hierarchy, staff, telephone list, photo etc...) and Meeting Room Booking. We want to upgrade our intranet and use Oracle Portal to provide a 1:1 experience for individual users but Oblix have moved on and the above functions have been dropped from their portfolio.
I know that we could probably cobble something together using Oracle Internet Directory and the Resource Booking function in the calendar that ships with 9iAS but I would prefer a product or portlet that is specific to the above simple but lets face it essential requirements of any office.
Any ideas welcome.

Now why didn't I think of that? You are good Mr H - I am working with sample data provided by a client who moves in mysterious ways.
They had a resource plan with no work in it but crucially resource utilization was calculated from the resource plan, a case of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. 
What was throwing me was that the work values visible in the Project Centre and in Project Professional for the project with the resource plan were consistent.
An interesting anomaly that is now resolved, I will remember it in future as it is no doubt likely to occur with other customers who go exploring the outer reaches of what is and is not possible with the solution.
Many thanks for your input, hopefully catch up some time before too long.
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    ./iwcadmin -w password -o ab.corpdir.[default].ldapbinddn -v 'cn=Directory Manager'
    ./iwcadmin -w password -o ab.corpdir.[default].ldapbindcred -v 'password'Side Note: I just logged a new bug with regards to attempting to configure a failover ldaphost system using the steps above -- a single ldaphost does work however:
    bug #6825805 - "Failover corporate LDAP server not configurable"
    2. How do you disable the default option to search the Corporate Directory? We can't allow users to search the backend ldap server, and it is misleading to have it present in the interface.There is an option to enable/disable the Corporate Address-book, unfortunately it doesn't work, at least not in my pre-release patch -07 test installation:
    ./iwcadmin -w password -o ab.corpdir.[default].enable -v falsebug #6825820 - "Disabling Corporate Directory causes Convergence to hang during loading of interface"
    3. Ideally, we want this to be configured on a per domain basis, since some of our domains will need to search a different corporate directory. Will there be a way to add dojo customizations to change which directory(s) will be searched?It is already possible to configure per-domain settings for corporate/personal addressbooks. For example I created a new domain (another.domain.com) and set the following:
    ./iwcadmin -w password -o ab.{another.domain.com}.psrootpattern -v 'ldap:///piPStoreOwner=%U,o=%D,o=PiServerDb'
    ./iwcadmin -w password -o ab.{another.domain.com}.pstore.defaultserver -v domainid1
    ./iwcadmin -w password -o ab.{another.domain.com}.pstore.[domainid1].ldaphost -v remoteldap.domain.com
    ./iwcadmin -w password -o ab.{another.domain.com}.pstore.[domainid1].ldapport -v 389
    ./iwcadmin -w password -o ab.{another.domain.com}.pstore.[domainid1].ldapbinddn -v "cn=Directory Manager"
    ./iwcadmin -w password -o ab.{another.domain.com}.pstore.[domainid1].ldapbindcred -v password
    ./iwcadmin -w password -o ab.{another.domain.com}.maxpagedsearch -v 10
    ./iwcadmin -w password -o ab.{another.domain.com}.corpdir.[corpdomainid1].urlmatch -v ldap://corp-directory1
    ./iwcadmin -w password -o ab.{another.domain.com}.corpdir.[corpdomainid1].searchattr -v 'entry/displayname,@uid'
    ./iwcadmin -w password -o ab.{another.domain.com}.corpdir.[corpdomainid1].lookthrulimit -v 3000
    ./iwcadmin -w password -o ab.{another.domain.com}.corpdir.[corpdomainid1].ldaphost -v remoteldap.domain.com
    ./iwcadmin -w password -o ab.{another.domain.com}.corpdir.[corpdomainid1].ldapport -v 389
    ./iwcadmin -w password -o ab.{another.domain.com}.corpdir.[corpdomainid1].ldapbinddn -v "cn=Directory Manager"
    ./iwcadmin -w password -o ab.{another.domain.com}.corpdir.[corpdomainid1].ldapbindcred -v passwordThe options above are described here:
    http://wikis.sun.com/display/CommSuite/Sun+Convergence+Administrative+Tasks#SunConvergenceAdministrativeTasks-Howtosetupadomainbasedconfigurationforaddressbook%3F
    Note: I did hit yet-another problem when configuring the above:
    ADDRESS_BOOK: ERROR from com.sun.comms.client.ab.wabp.WABPEngine  Thread
    httpSSLWorkerThread-80-0 at 2009-04-03 04:36:34,55
    1 - WABPEngine.process: exception in search_entry.wabp  Too many opened paged searches :
    psearchBook: too many psearch: 0I was able to resolve this error by setting:
    ./iwcadmin -w password -o ab.{another.domain.com}.maxpagedsearch -v 10Regards,
    Shane.

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