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Applescript-LDAP bridge
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Join Date: Oct 1999
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I've got an FM database that our HR department uses to track employee info, and I want to have that drive our LDAP directory (adds, modifies, deletes). Since FileMaker pretty much talks to nothing (ack), the process likely involves a convoluted scheme of exporting from FM, then scripting the LDAP calls in Perl from the export files. What a pain!
I figured, if anything could do it end-to-end, AppleScript could. Does this idea sound far-fetched? Is anyone working on LDAP hooks in AppleScript?
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Originally posted by schwa:
I've got an FM database that our HR department uses to track employee info, and I want to have that drive our LDAP directory (adds, modifies, deletes). Since FileMaker pretty much talks to nothing (ack), the process likely involves a convoluted scheme of exporting from FM, then scripting the LDAP calls in Perl from the export files. What a pain!
I figured, if anything could do it end-to-end, AppleScript could. Does this idea sound far-fetched? Is anyone working on LDAP hooks in AppleScript?
Depending on the directory vendor, you could also use web services to facilitate the integration. Since XML was touted as one of the big benefits of FMPro6 you could use some combination of XML, the SOAP/XML-RPC support available in AppleScript and the SOAP/XML-RPC APIs available on your directory to do the directory operations. LDAP queries are icky; SOAP might be cleaner.
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Join Date: Oct 1999
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An interesting idea, but unfortunately my LDAP server (iPlanet Directory Server 5.1) doesn't support either of those protocols yet. *sigh*...
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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Since the addressbook is LDAP aware could you route it though that with apple script?
Never done much with applescript but it is a very interesting how to combine many apps alltogether
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Join Date: Sep 1999
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I thought I read of an LDAP FileMaker plug-in a while ago. Have a search on FileMaker's plug-in page for it.
Good luck.
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Join Date: Oct 1999
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Originally posted by hayesk:
I thought I read of an LDAP FileMaker plug-in a while ago. Have a search on FileMaker's plug-in page for it.
Good luck.
FM can register on an LDAP server for things like auth, but what I need is something more akin to db export-import.
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