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disguise the true location of an entry by changing the DN of the entry to
conform to the views hierarchy. This is by design — many applications would
not function if the true location of an entry is disguised., such as those
applications that rely on the DN to identify a unique entry. This upward
navigation by deconstructing a DN is an unusual technique for a client
application, but, nonetheless, those clients that do this may not function as
intended.
• Applications that use the
how many entries exist beneath a node. For views nodes, this is currently a
count of only those entries that exist in the real search space, ignoring the
virtual search space. Applications may not evaluate the view with a search as a
result of this.

Other Directory Tree Resources

Take a look at the following links for more information about designing your
directory tree:
• RFC 2247: Using Domains in LDAP/X.500 Distinguished Names
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2247.txt
• RFC 2253: LDAPv3, UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2253.txt
operational attribute to determine
numSubordinates
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