If you keep your cards on a network using an LDAP server, you can share access to them, browse other address books, or maintain a shared set of contact information for your company or your department. This is the sort of feature you'll want to use if your company has a list of vendors and clients that needs constant updating. If you also share your calendars, people can avoid duplicating work and keep up to date on developments within their work-group or across the entire company.
Ejemplo 2. Conpartiendo Tarjetas de Direcciones y Datos del Calendario
Raul quiere concertar una reunión con la Compañía X, así que busca en la red la tarjeta de la Compañía X para saber a quien tiene que llamar. Dado que su compañia comparte un calendario, ve que su compañera Diana ya ha concertado una reunión con la Compañía X para el próximo jueves. Puede ir el mismo a la reunión o pedir a Diana que trate el tema por el. De cualquier modo, evita concertar otra cita co la Compañía X.
Of course, you don't want to share all of your cards— why overload the network with a list of babysitters, or tell everyone in the office you're talking to new job prospects? If you keep cards on your own computer, you can decide which items you want to make accessible to others.
To learn how to add a remote directory to your available contact folders, see la sección de nombre Administrando el Administrador de Contactos en el capítulo de nombre Configuración Avanzada. Once you have a connection, the network contacts folder or folders will appear inside the External Directories folder in the folder bar, and will work exactly like a local folder of cards, with the following exceptions:
They are only available when you are connected to the network. If you use a laptop or have a modem connection, you may wish to copy or cache the network directory and then synchronize your copy with the networked version periodically.
To prevent excess network traffic, Evolution will not normally load the contents of LDAP folders immediately upon opening. You must click Display All before LDAP folder cards will be loaded from the network. You can change this behavior in the Contact Preferences window.
Your ability to view, change, add or delete contacts depends on the settings of the LDAP server. For example, you may read all the entries in the public Netcenter directory (available by default in the External Directories folder), but you may not change or delete any of them.