Question

I've got LdapNgPlugin up and running. I'd like to use it to populate a list, where I want to construct an URL to user homepages, i.e. construct the wikiname.

The nicest way would be to use the $cn value, which is First van de Last, login, strip the login part and create the wikiname from the rest (basically what happens when the users authenticate through the LdapContrib)

However, some of the entries have characters like ' or have lowercase middle words like First van de Last

How can I construct a wikiname from these entries?

Environment

-- JosMaccabiani - 26 May 2007

Answer

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The code in LdapContrib does these things--

If you look at lib/TWiki/Users/LdapUserMapping.pm: around line 389, it takes care of UTF-8, expansion of umlautes, etc. Removing "van de" would be just one more translation.

-- CrisRhea - 26 Jun 2007

Sorry, closing this after more than 30 days of inactivity...

-- PeterThoeny - 10 Aug 2007

Just use %USERINFO{...}%

-- MichaelDaum - 10 Aug 2007