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Is “Novell GroupWise Adressbuch” System Address Book?

Based on Novell documentation, you can search only “First Name” & “Last Name” in System Address Book. See below extract from Find() method documentation.

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This Find method differs from the Find methods for messages in that it accepts a restricted syntax and does not accept a saved Filter. Each address book may support a different set of filtering operations. Filtering on an address book that supports a limited set of operations will throw an exception when handed a filter expression beyond the address book’s capabilities. This method does not support BEGINSWITH, but it does support MATCHES and CONTAINS.

You can search only on First Name and Last Name in the System Address Book. If you try searching on Name, this method fails.
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However, our internal test shows we was able to search Email Address in System Address Book entries in GroupWise 8.0.3 (build date 15/06/2012) but not in GroupWise 2012. Following code works in GroupWise 8/2012 System Address Book.

  
set oAddressBook = GroupWise.Account.AddressBooks.Item("Novell GroupWise Address Book")
iFilter = "(<First Name> CONTAINS ""Test"")"
set oAddresses = oAddressBook.AddressBookEntries.Find(iFilter)

In your code you have used “<Email-Adresse>”, in English client its “<E-Mail Address>”. We are not sure AddressBook keywords are language-dependent.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Advansys Support

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set oAddressBook = GroupWise.Account.AddressBooks.Item(“Novell GroupWise Addressbook”)

Generally System Address Book name is “Novell GroupWise Address Book” but we can see in your system “Novell GroupWise Addressbook” [without space in Addressbook]. Don’t think it could be an issue.

Does the code works in another Address Book?

We had to update your above sample code for Address Book name then it works in here. We used GroupWise 12.0.1 (build date 07/09/2012).

See below slightly modified code, which shows Address Book name & Type (2 for System Address Book) and prefix wildcard character in name.

 
  set oAddressBook = GroupWise.Account.AddressBooks.Item("Novell GroupWise Address Book")

  if (not oAddressBook is nothing) then
    msgbox "Name: " & oAddressBook.Name  & ", Type: " & oAddressBook.ObjType
    iFilter = "(<First Name> CONTAINS ""*John*"")"
    set oEntries = oAddressBook.AddressBookEntries.Find(iFilter)

    if oEntries is nothing then
      msgbox "oEntries is nothing. Quitting"
    elseif (oEntries.count > 0) then
      msgbox oEntries.item(1).DisplayName
    end if
  end if

Regards,

Advansys Support