Re: Nick names search extension

[Erik Skovgaard <eskovgaard@geotrain.com>]

Oded,

I am not sure why you would want to use a control for that.  Why not just
put the nicknames in the name attribute?  The cn attribute is multi-valued
in the standard schema (I have to make this qualification given the many
different schemae that seem to be published).  Only one of the values of
this attribute is distinguished, of course, but you can search on the rest.

Cheers,                   ....Erik.

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Erik Skovgaard
GeoTrain Corp.
Enterprise Directory Engineering Services
http://www.geotrain.com

At 11:36 98/11/06 -0500, Ringer, Oded wrote:
>One server side control that can be very useful is the ability to search by
>nick names. 
>That is, encapsulating the knowledge that:
>"William" = "Will" = "Bill" = "Billy" = "Wilberto" = "Willem"
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>Than, applications looking for Billy will be able to leverage this centrally
>stored functionality and find the person even if his name is actually
>William.
>
>This feature will be highly appreciated by enterprises looking to deploy a
>meta-directory.
>
>-Oded
>
>Oded Ringer  212-902-7939
>Goldman, Sachs & Co.
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