Re: [Gnumed-devel] re: sourceforge ldap

[Karsten Hilbert]

> > > That sounds like a reasonable first step [but what is the case use 
> > > scenario]
> The referrals writer: which grabs the contact details for the referral's 
> addressee
> Currently this is from the demographics server (i.e we are referring to other
> patients!)
Nah, we've had *that* before ;-)  We are referring to other
"people". Patients are people who just happen to have entries
in the clinical service.

> I am now keen to switch this to LDAP, becuase of the advantages outlined, and 
> it also allows
> us to use existing LDAP editors, instead of having to write our own contatcs 
> editor
> (but of course we *can*, in the fullness of time)
Well, sure, if you want to switch contacts to LDAP and you
want to do it, too, go ahead. No one can stop you. It's just that
it'll raise the bar for potential GnuMed users even higher.
And forget about plain Windows installs with no backroom
UNIX-Server, even now that a usable PostgreSQL Windows port
is around the corner. It'll make it impossible/very hard to
install GnuMed at a few sites I was thinking of because they
simply neither have a permanent internet link nor a spare
UNIX-Server hidden away somewhere. Or else make GnuMed depend
on LDAP when and only when the contacts widget is actually
loaded. But again, I can't stop anyone from coding.

We'll have to set up a LDAP server at hherb.com, too, then.

Karsten
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