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Pretty sure CiviCRM supports a vCard format

No, surprisingly no-one has asked us for it, except as a passing request. Last I heard discussion of it was at CiviCon in London & I don't recall anyone having a good solution in place. However, there was one UK consultancy that did demo some work they had done on Outlook integration. I'm trying to remember their name.

No, I think our customers haven't adopted the idea of getting a large portion of their daily communications into Civi :-(.

Yes, I think it probably was Target.

It's come up a couple times for at least two orgs I know, but other than importing csv/vcard files couldn't think of anything other than some custom process which we're trying to avoid.

We did a proof-of-concept ldap server using nodejs, but all it really proved was that it wasn't going to work in practice. The biggest problems we had were:
1) ldap groups/distribution lists aren't supported by the ldap client in outlook (and I think not in most other ones we looked at either), and,
2) if you have two people with the same name then in order to distinguish them in a way that works in all clients you pretty much have to put something extra into the name field, which then appears in any emails you send to them, and looks weird/inappropriate to the recipient.

Hi,

I did follow up on the proof of concept we did with dave. I'm going to put that on a beta test to the client that sponsored some of the dev end of the month. We have added an extra api that does a faster search than the generic api get.

Would be interested to try with other users too. Would be even better if they got some budget to fix the bug they identify

As for the group, what we have done on other projects is to integrate with mailman and team@yourdomain.org contains a list that is fetched from the team group. The sync seems to work (d7) but we'd need to add better reporting on failure (eg. to be sure it still works instead of silently stop syncing)

Hi,

I'd need 500 to 1000 to get it in a good shape enough and share. To be clear, it's not a bounty and I will share it anyway, but would speed up the eta.

I'm fine tuning the queries on the server to return relevant results without exploding the server, quite happy with the result.

Right now, it uses a single civicrm user for each requests, ie. everyone will see the same contacts.


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P.S. I think we are intimate enough, you don't need to put quotes around my name

Having dug around a little and seeing your massive involvement in CiviCRM, I have to assume that there is a reason you aren't using the Drupal/CiviCRM shared user functionality to create each contact as a user and store that info in the LDAP backend?  Then utilizing the Organic Groups to provide the ACLs?

The main reason is that the server is written in node.js, so different language and technology than drupal/civi. It's only communicating with civi through the rest api.

I didn't find an rest api to validate login/pwd that would potentially work for D6,D7, J! and WP