LDAP value order

[David Bantz]

FWIW, we build attribute values in our directory to represent hierarchy precisely because LDAP attribute values are explicitly 
an unordered set of values, e.g.,

Employee Affiliation: 	 	UAF Main|CLA Anthropology

(i.e., University of Alaska Fairbanks, main campus, College of Liberal Arts, Dept. of Anthropology)


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On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, at 24:11 , Manuel Haim wrote:

> Am 23.11.2011 18:34, schrieb Daniel Fisher:
>> What use case do you have for attribute ordering?
> 
> Well, it's more a cosmetic issue... we have a user's ou field populated
> with values in hierarchical order (so it's something like
> [University,Institute,Department,Group]), and the mail field values are
> in logical order (like [uid at domain,givenName.sn at domain]), and some other
> fields contain values ordered by last change (i.e. last inserted).
> Keeping the order from LDAP would result in a better understandable
> overview of attributes e.g. in uApprove or in any other page which
> displays attribute values.
> 
> -Manuel
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