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Bug 231005 - Contacts from LDAP server show incomplete last name
Contacts from LDAP server show incomplete last name
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Contacts
1.5.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Sushma Rai
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks: 327508 327510
 
 
Reported: 2002-09-23 15:14 UTC by Felipe Alfaro Solana
Modified: 2013-09-10 13:54 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Felipe Alfaro Solana 2002-09-23 15:14:47 UTC
Description of Problem:
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When displaying Contacts from an LDAP server, Evolution shows incomplete
last names for the entries. For example, I have add a user in my test LDAP
server as:

  First Name: Felipe
  Last Name: Alfaro Solana

Evolution displays this user as "Solana, Felipe", instead of displaying
"Alfaro Solana, Felipe". This is a problem with Evolution UI: just to make
sure the entry was being shown incorrectly I tried:

  ldapsearch -b"ou=People,dc=home,dc=test" -s one "objectclass=*"

And this confirms the last name is "Alfaro Solana".

Steps to reproduce the problem:
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1. Create a test entry on your LDAP server. The test entry should have a
complex last name, like mine (i.e. "Alfaro Solana")
2. In Evolution, go to Tools->Preferences->Directory Servers and make sure
there is an account mapped to the LDAP server used in step 1.
3. Create a new e-mail message.
4. Click the "To:" button
5. From the "Select Contacts from Addressbook", select the LDAP server
account from the "Folder" dropdown list (it should appear under a root
folder called "Other Contacts")
6. No contacts will appear (another bug), so click "Category" and choose
"All Categories"
7. At least one contact will appear, but the one you created in step 1 will
display as "Solana, Felipe" instead of being "Alfaro Solana, Felipe".

Actual Results:
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The Contacts component of Evolution has problems dealing with contacts name
whose last name is formed by two or more words. 

Expected Results:
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Evolution should correctly display entries with complex last names.

How often does this happen?
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Always

Additional Information:
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NOTE: Just to make this clearer, the Evolution UI address does not display
the first word of entries whose last name has more than one word. For example:

1. If the last name is "Alfaro Solana" and the first name is "Felipe",
Evolution displays "Solana, Felipe".
2. If the last name is "User Number One" and the first name is "Test",
Evolution displays "Number One, Test".
Comment 1 Gerardo Marin 2004-03-01 00:59:37 UTC
Still valid in 1.5.4
Comment 2 André Klapper 2005-09-25 01:43:36 UTC
retargetting from very ancient 2.1 milestones to just ancient 2.3 milestones.
it just sucks to click several target milestone values.

sorry for the noise.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2006-01-09 01:46:21 UTC
retargetting bugs with severity=major from 2.3 to 2.5
Comment 4 Sushma Rai 2006-01-09 06:54:36 UTC
Problem is with western name parsing.
Comment 5 Devashish Sharma 2006-02-15 10:08:12 UTC
This works fine for me.
So i hope this has been fixed.
Can you please try with some latest version of evolution and check this.
Closing this as fixed, please reopen if you find this happening again.