Filemaker writing to LDAP contact database

[futuretheory9]

This is not another question about registering Filemaker server with LDAP, it's about using Filemaker to write to certain information to a LDAP directory.

My company has a substantial contact database that it would like to share company wide. We are very attracted to using a LDAP directory to do this so that many people and different applications can make use of the information.

I'd probably still want a complete Filemaker database, but I would want it to also send the contact oriented field values to a LDAP directory. Filemaker wouldn't necessarily have to read from LDAP. So my question is, is it possible to have Filemaker write the contact information directly to LDAP? If not, has anyone tried an indirect approach with external scripting? Help?

Thanks

[Mikhail Edoshin]

I'm not sure if this is a correct answer, but as far as I know there's a thing called Directory Services Markup Language (DSLM) (Link) and it's supported by DSLM Services for Windows (Link). Here's a quote:

“DSML Version 1 enables you to represent directory data as an XML document. DSML V2 extends this functionality by providing a method for expressing directory queries and updates, and the results of these operations, as XML documents.”

MS DSLM supports V2. If this is the correct thing, it would require you to send SOAP calls from FileMaker and import results of these calls using the XML/XSLT filter.

Edited July 16, 2006 by Guest
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[brian rich]

Don't know whether you have solved this problem yet, but you can manage an LDAP server using PHP LDAP commands and generate and execute the necessary code using SCODIGO's SmartPill.

We are using this to manage an LDAP server here.

[curtageorge]

hello,

try a look at this integration:

http://www.dircard.net

i can help you...