• Powerful user friendly name searches
• General directory attribute searches
• Forms based search control
• Discretionary search chaining to remote DSAs
• Wide range of viewing features, including pictures, sound and "hot links"
• Collector window for saving entries for future use
• High level of integration with Route400 message clients
• Copy/Paste directory information to other applications
• Configurable search menus and information displays
• Supports Directory Access Protocol (DAP)

The Route500 Directory Client (Directory User Agent/DUA) for Macintosh provides a graphical interface for user friendly searching and browsing of X.500 directories. It is usually installed together with a Route400 message client with which it is closely integrated.

The X.500 directory is a hierarchical distributed database accessible via open communications systems. In addition to providing so-called white and yellow pages services (giving access to individual and classified information, respectively), X.500 directories can hold photographs, sound, graphics, multimedia material, inventories etc., and can store security keys and certificates to authenticate an individual or an application's identity.

The Route500 directory client performs searches on specific information attributes and User Friendly Names. It can browse through the directory in a natural way. At the press of a button, any X.400 or Internet address that has been found can be transferred easily from the directory into the recipient field of a Route400 message client or to a Route400 Address Book. Other information obtained from the directory can be pasted into general purpose office documents.

The DUA supports general or specific searching of local or remote Directory System Agents (DSAs) which in turn can access other DSAs for information they do not locally hold.

Search Facilities

• Powerful search engine to enable efficient, user friendly searching and browsing of a DSA
• User Friendly Name (UFN) search entered directly into a dialogue box allows location of named entities on the basis of partial information
• Search on any specific attribute at any level of the directory hierarchy using a form based dialogue box
• Browse up and down
• Chaining can be selected so that the local DSA will connect to other DSAs to request information on your behalf

• "Show photo" is available if there is graphical information stored in JPEG format
• "Play sound" is available
• "Show parent" command to display the current parent entry
• "Browse" command to display the current child entries
• Easy menu access to other directory entries referenced by "Secretary"/"Role Occupant"/"See Also" using "hot links" and buttons
• "Entry Collector" window for storing entries to be remembered for future use (via a button)

• "Mail to" button for transferring addresses directly into the Route400 message client recipient list for posting
• Launches the Route400 message client if not open
• If a suitable window is not present, generates a Draft/Send mail window containing the address selected
• "Save to Book" allows address details to be saved into any Route400 Address Book without running the Route400 message client
• Copy/Paste information to Draft/Send mail contents

• Ability to add/delete new entries in the directory as sub-entries of the current one, for example organisations and persons (subject to access privileges)
• Edit any attributes such as fax numbers and addresses of the current entry and write them back to the directory (subject to access privileges)
• Copy/Paste between entries and other desktop documents

• Search menus and dialogue boxes completely configurable
• Display windows configurable for each type of directory entry
• Can be configured to understand non-standard schemas and attributes
• Display formatting works when unexpected attributes found

• Route500 DUAs conform to the international X.500 standards
• Conform to the international schema standards
• Successfully completed interoperability trials with other leading directory implementations at EuroSInet Interoperability workshops
• Route500 DUAs running on a Macintosh can access Route500 DSAs and other vendor DSAs using the standard X.500 directory access protocol (DAP) over TCP/IP and asynchronous connections

• TCP/IP access option:
  MacTCP or OpenTransport software and either an Ethernet interface or a LocalTalk to Ethernet router. For Systems 7.5 (Mac TCP) or 7.5.3 (OpenTransport) or later, this is included in the System release. For earlier systems you must obtain this from Apple or Apple dealers
• Dial-up asynchronous (X.445/APS) access option:
  Either a Hayes compatible modem connected to either the modem port or the printer port with a connection to the PSTN.
  Or a direct connection from the modem port or the printer port to a private PAD

• Route500 Directory Client Software
• Macintosh Plus or later with minimum 4Mb RAM
• also runs on a PowerPC with minimum 4Mb memory
• System 7.0 or later
• Route500 or third party DSA supporting DAP