[Obm] Noob questions

[Etienne van Tonder]

Hi,

 

I've just downloaded and installed OBM after evaluating a number of
groupware systems and so far it looks promising, thank you for providing the
software it's much appreciated.

 

Environment: Ubuntu 9.04, OBM 2.3.2

 

I'm a bit confused and I'm trying to get my mind around how OBM works in
relation to a couple of things:

 

1. If I want to set up a new shared calendar for our company (made up of a
number of divisions) is it best to create a single domain (e.g.
company.abc). To group users by division would I simply create a group for
each division and assign the users to these groups as we would like to have
access to all users across divisions?

 

2. In my tests I've done this but for some reason when I create a new
appointment (or meeting) and I go to the "Attendees" section, if I select
"Users" as my source none of the users that I created shows up. The only way
I could get one to show up in this search is to login and change the access
rights of the users to include myself, once I did this I was able to see the
other user but no-one else?? I would like to be able to invite anyone in the
organisation to a meeting so would like to see all users.

 

3.  Our company has standardised on using Outlook as our email client. I
would like to use OBM as our groupware calendar so would like the ability to
sync with Outlook and mobile devices. From what I've seen I can do this via
the OBM sync server. Using funambol I can sync mobile devices (does this
allow iPhone sync?) and do Outlook sync via OBM Outlook, is this correct? Is
the OBM Outlook connector free and available as part of the OBM Sync server
download? If not how can I get it and what is the cost?

 

4. When trying to add new contacts I get a message "Indexing server
connection error" do I need to install a text indexer of some sort, can you
point me in the right direction?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Etienne.

 

 

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