Accessing Account Data from Admin Extension

[tangasmaster]

Hi,

I've implemented an Admin Extension that adds a new Tab to the Zimbra Account panel - ZaAccountXFormView. I added a new LDAP schema to Zimbra, added new LDAP objects to Zimbra accounts and mapped the new fields with that objects and all is working well - data is stored and retrieved correctly.

But after doing all that, now I would like to get access to Account data within the ZaAccountXFormView panel but I couldn't find any documentation explaining how to achieve this.

Basically what I would like to do is to set textfield edition enabled / disabled depending on the value of one property. Something like:

"
if( ZaTabView.XFormModifiers["ZaAccountXFormView"] ) {
my_extension_ext.AccountXFormModifier = function (xFormObject, entry) {
if(ZaTabView.isTAB_ENABLED(entry,ZaAccountXFormVie w.PERSON_TAB_ATTRS, ZaAccountXFormView.PERSON_TAB_RIGHTS)) {
...
...
if( accountx.propertyy == "" )
enable_edition_on_fieldx; <- this would be the definition of the items to display
else
disable_edition_on_fieldx;

...
...
"

This seemed, at first, some trivial thing to do but I couldn't get this to work so far.

If someone could give me a hand on this I would surely appreciated.

[tangasmaster]

In the function where I need this, I've got the "xFormObject" and the "entry" objects, and the value that I want to "read" is referenced by "ref:ZaPerson.A_extension".

Basically what I want is to get the value referenced by entry[ZaPerson.A_extension], but I have not managed to do so.

Can anyone help me, please?

[tangasmaster]

Is this impossible to achive or simply nobody cares to answer?!

Zimbra is a great product but this forum is more like a questions depot. You should not call it a forum ...

"Leave your question. No answer will be given!"

[tangasmaster]

I found a solution for my problem but it is a "going around the problem" solution. In the AccountXFormModifier function, before defining the items to display I do a GetAccountRequest for the account - for anyone interest the "entry" field is the account username + domain name - and will retrieve the info I need from there.
Surely this is not the right way to do things since this data must be already available somewhere ... I just don't know where and nobody cared to tell me.

Anyway, I'm interested in doing things right, so I would like to know how this should be done. If some sharing soul would, eventually, be so kind, and share it with the remaining community I'm sure the community would appreciate it. I certainly would ...