Telephone Directory Publishing

Publish it as an embedded Excel spreadsheet is a simple answer.

Publish it as an HTML table is another.

Maintaining 500 to 1000 entries in a single document is quite boring and error prone.

My suggestion is to install Fedora Core 4 on an old PC (256MB, 40GB, 850MHz+) with Apache, PHP and MySQL. Set up a simple database with information about department (lookup table), person's name, title (lookup table), job function (lookup table) and telephone/cellular number.

You can easily generate the dynamic telephone list on the fly whenever people want to view or print out a full (10-25 pages) or partial list through their browser. By including a stylesheet for print media you can control the format, including the font of the printout.

We keep all of our organizational data in Active directory (win2k3 server) and use a PHP on apache web page to access it. you can use the PHP LDAP protocol to access your directory. The advantage of this aproach is you have a single point of modification, addition and deletion as employees are hired, transfered, promoted or leave. While you are creating their network account you are also putting them in the company directory. I tried other approaches but the phone list was always out of synch with the actual employee Directory. please rate my answer

We keep all of our organizational data in Active directory (win2k3 server) and use a PHP on apache web page to access it. you can use the PHP LDAP protocol to access your directory. The advantage of this aproach is you have a single point of modification, addition and deletion as employees are hired, transfered, promoted or leave. While you are creating their network account you are also putting them in the company directory. I tried other approaches but the phone list was always out of synch with the actual employee Directory. please rate my answer

We keep all of our organizational data in Active directory (win2k3 server) and use a PHP on apache web page to access it. you can use the PHP LDAP protocol to access your directory. The advantage of this aproach is you have a single point of modification, addition and deletion as employees are hired, transfered, promoted or leave. While you are creating their network account you are also putting them in the company directory. I tried other approaches but the phone list was always out of synch with the actual employee Directory. please rate my answer

We keep all of our organizational data in Active directory (win2k3 server) and use a PHP on apache web page to access it. you can use the PHP LDAP protocol to access your directory. The advantage of this aproach is you have a single point of modification, addition and deletion as employees are hired, transfered, promoted or leave. While you are creating their network account you are also putting them in the company directory. I tried other approaches but the phone list was always out of synch with the actual employee Directory. please rate my answer