9 Ability to Customize Attribute Mapping and Global Address List Display Order

This chapter describes how to customize attribute mapping and global address list (GAL) display order.

Oracle Communications Connector for Microsoft Outlook maps the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) attributes to the corresponding display items in Outlook. You can now customize the LDAP attribute mapping and GAL display order by using the Connector for Outlook Deployment Program.

To customize the attribute mapping, perform the following steps:

1. Click the LDAP tab from the Connector for Microsoft Outlook deployment configuration program.

2. In the LDAP Mapping String option, change the attribute mapping to the desired value.

   For example, you can change it to Firstname = given name, Dept = DeptID.

To customize GAL Display Order, perform the following steps:

1. Open the configuration (.ini) file from the location where you stored it when you created the profile.

2. Set the attribute to the desired display order. All .ini files will have an attribute GALDisplayOrder, which can be modified.

For example, you can set the GAL Display Order to the following:

GALDisplayOrder=Officephonenumber,Address,Title,Company,uid,PrimaryEmailAddress,AddressType

The first column is the attribute used in the "VLV sort attribute," which by default is cn (displayname), followed by OfficePhoneNumber in second column, then Address in third column, and so forth.

Consider what happens if you set the GAL Display Order to the following:

GALDisplayOrder=PrimaryEmailAddress,Officephonenumber,Address,Title,Company,uid,AddressType

The first column is still cn (displayname), but now it is followed by PrimaryEmailAddress in the second column, then OfficePhoneNumber in the third column, and so on.

Note:

The Virtual List View (VLV) sort attribute is used in the LDAP query as a sort attribute. This should be the same as the sort attribute used in the VLV index created at the server side or else performance could be degraded.