[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA Multi Valued Custom Fields

[Mark Hannessen]

Hi Rob, ( and list )

Sorry for the very late reply.
We are still interested in using FreeIPA for our project.

Any support you could give us to the minimum needed for multi valued 
attributes working would be more then welcome.

Kind Regards,

Mark Hannessen

On Tuesday 16 June 2009 03:16:25 pm Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Mark Hannessen wrote:
> > Hi List,
> >
> >
> > I am currently deploying a freeipa installation for use in within our
> > company.
> > I have succesfully added a couple of custom attributes to the fedora
> > directory server and to the webinterface using ipacustomfields in
> > cn=ipaConfig,cn=etc
> >
> >
> > All attributes however appear in the interface as single valued
> > attributes.
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know if it is possible ( or hackable ) to present them as
> > multivalued attributes in the interface? ( all my custom attributes
> > happen to be multi valued, so a hack that would make them all appear
> > multi valued would be enough in my case as well )
>
> Unfortunately our support for UI customization is very weak right now
> (which is one reason we started from scratch again).
>
> It only supports single-valued custom attributes right now. To try to
> add in multi-valued attributes would require a fair bit of work.  In
> order to make the UI act the way we wanted we had to dump the TurboGears
> template system so it isn't as simple as adding in a new reference to a
> UI object. A bunch of custom code needs to be added, particularly for
> multi-valued fields.
>
> It isn't an impossible task but it would require a bit of coding on your
> end. I can try to point you in the right direction if you want to go
> that route (you'd just have to be careful about saving your work so an
> IPA update doesn't wipe it all out).
>
> rob