Yep - look at the class of service plugin - it does exactly what you are asking for. - Jeff Ben Steeves wrote: >Hi Folks, > >I'm wondering if anyone has tackled something like this and might have >a suggestion for me: > >We have a few fields on people records which are essentially >"pointers" to other records, for example: > >dn: uid=example,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com >uid: example >comExampleOrgUnitDN: ou=EXAM,ou=departments,dc=example,dc=com > >...which basically says that the person "example" is in the "EXAM" >department. But of course when someone looks up Mr. Example, he >probably would like to know that he works in "Department of Examples", >rather than the DN of the department... > >dn: ou=EXAM,ou=departments,dc=example,dc=com >cn: Department of Examples > >So my question is: is there any trick to create a sort of dynamic >lookup on the person's record that would "drill down" into the >department record and pull up the cn? My first thought is that this >would be a sort of computed/translated field... I haven't run across >anything describing this in the FDS documentation. > >Any ideas? Basically, I want to avoid putting "Department of >Examples" on Mr. Example's record because if the Department decided to >change its name to the "Example Department", I'd have to manually >adjust everyone in the department. > > >
