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eGuide 2.0
Novell eGuide looks like an address book. But unlike an ordinary address book, eGuide is independent of platform or a particular application. It can be accessed by any user with rights to your Web server via a standard Web browser.
Major Features of eGuide include:
- Standards-based display and administration using HTML, XML, and XSL make configuration and use simple, convenient, and highly customizable.
- Advanced Search capabilities allow searches on any attribute.
- Organizational Charts are automatically generated based on eDirectory attributes.
- Anonymous and User Authentication modes are supported, including contextless login, cookies, and support for eDirectory password restrictions.
- Authenticated Searching utilizes access control lists in eDirectory to determine if a user can access particular attribute information, such as home phone numbers.
- Works seamlessly with Novell iChain and Novell Portal Services. Novell eGuide is also an excellent add-on to DirXML synchronization projects.
- Compatible with eDirectory or any other LDAP-enabled directory service, such as iPlanet.
In addition to searching Novell eDirectory, you can use eGuide to search any LDAP directory, and even multiple directories at the same time.This means, for example, that if your company suddenly purchases another company, you can easily provide a combined white pages view of both companies using eGuide pointing at two separate directories at the same time.
Adding an LDAP Directory
When you add an LDAP directory, Novell eGuide creates a User category for the new directory using the User attribute settings and mappings in the first directory added when you ran the eGuide Setup Wizard. It is therefore recommended that you make any desired changes to the initial directory's User attribute settings and mappings before adding other directories.
You can use directory configurations to increase search performance by taking advantage of eGuide's multi-threaded search capability. For example, you can break up a single large directory into multiple directory configurations within eGuide, with each pointing to a different search root. If the directory you are splitting up in this way requires user authentication, be sure to designate each directory configuration as part of the authentication group.
eGuide 2.1 Features
eGuide 2.1 features the following:
- Standards-based display and administration using HTML, XML, and XSL make configuration and use simple, convenient, and highly customizable.
- Advanced Search capabilities allow searches on any attribute.
- Organizational Charts are automatically generated based on eDirectory attributes.
- Anonymous and User Authentication modes are supported, including contextless login, cookies, and support for eDirectory password restrictions.
- Authenticated Searching utilizes access control lists in eDirectory to determine if a user can access particular attribute information, such as home phone numbers.
- Works seamlessly with Novell iChain and Novell Portal Services.
- Novell eGuide is also an excellent add-on to DirXML synchronization projects.
- Compatible with eDirectory or any other LDAP-enabled directory service, such as iPlanet.
eGuide Technical Aspects
Here are some of the technical aspects of eGuide:
- Accessible from any standard web browser--there is no client software to install.
- Users can define which directories they wish to search.
- Administrators can define which directories are available to search.
- Ships with an LDAP directory connector, yet allows developers to create their own directory connector.
eGuide in Action
eGuide in action supports multiple search otions including:
- Names and telephone number
- Email address
- Bollean "and/or" searches
- Customizable search attributes
Users perform searches in the Novell eGuide client by selecting three search filters, typing the text they want to search for, and then clicking Search. The three search filters, in the form of drop-down lists, are Category, Attribute, and Search Constraint.
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