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Howdy folks,

We have a Drupal (5.3) installation with CiviCRM 1.9. I currently have the Drupal ldap_integration and ldap_provisioning modules installed, which let the Drupal account system insert accounts directly into the LDAP directory and authenticate against them. I'm using ldap_data to map LDAP attributes to Drupal profile fields. We're using OpenLDAP on Ubuntu Linux.

Essentially what I want to do is have a user be able to come by, create an account, and then edit their profile's email address, first/last name, address, etc. and have it simultaneously map back to both their LDAP record and their CiviCRM contact record. The problem is that ldap_data only sees Drupal's profile fields, not CiviCRM profile fields. The exception is the email address, which is not a custom profile field. That is mapped to both LDAP and CiviCRM.

As far as I can tell, my options are...
a.) modify the ldap_data module to dig into the CiviCRM database to find fields, or
b.) write my own module to detect edits to the CiviCRM fields and map them back to LDAP.

Both of these would be serious undertakings. Before I start a project like that, or just give up because it would take too long, I was wondering if anyone had had any success with this sort of setup.

Thanks!

Thanks. I actually have looked at that page at length. Its purpose seems to be to represent the CiviCRM contacts database as an LDAP directory so that applications like Outlook et al. can use it. A worthy purpose but it is a little different from what I want to do.

I will probably end up trying to hack up ldap_data to make it get/set CiviCRM fields. I'll report back if/when I succeed.

You might want to cross-reference your work on the CiviCRM - LDAP Integration page on our wiki as way to help other folks find it. I suspect others will find this useful going forward.