Cannot change user attributes in 3.4dev CE

[gman]

In 3.3g CE I can connect to LDAP-Active Directory and get information on users. Our AD does not contain email addresses, and does not separate First and Last name, so I have been going to user manager and making changes per user as needed for staff testing in Alfresco. I edit the first and last names fields and add the email address.

I cannot do this in Alfresco 3.4dev and it has essentially made 3.4dev unusable as without the email we cannot send notifications to users.

This issue, along with the memory leak issue I am now experience in 3.3g CE is going to kill our efforts to implement Alfresco CE and with the recent price quote I received for Alfresco EE, our likelihood of implementing Alfresco in an capacity are slim.

[mrogers]

Why are you trying to use a nightly build if you care about stability?  

Unless you are developing or contributing code leave HEAD alone for the next month.

In the meantime please make sure any issues you find are raised in JIRA so something can be done about  them.

[dward]

The LDAP attribute issue is not a stability issue. It was considered a bug that you could edit user attributes that are controlled by LDAP sync. If you want attributes to be editable through the admin console, you will have to remove them from the personAttributeMapping bean definition. See http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Subsystems#Spring_Beans for how to override subsystem bean definitions.

[gman]

I didn't do the best job explaining this, my apologies. This is no longer an issue as I have talked my systems admin into adding new attributes to AD to match users when they are access in Alfresco. So at a minimum we will be adding first name, last name and email attributes so this information shows up for each user in Alfresco.