OpenACS Calendar package

Maintainer: Dirk Gomez

I took over calendar package maintainership in May 2003 and am currently moving html generation into the adp pages. CVS head's Calendar is currently not ready for production use, revert to the "before-noquote" version if you need to have calendar up and running now.

Here's the wish list of things - in no particular order:

• Proper I18N:
  • Choose when a week starts
  • Day and month names
  • Time and date format
• Notifications
• Reminders
• Multi-day events
• iCal format compatible. Ideally, import/export to Outlook/iCalendar/etc.. via iCal format (by Jade)
• Ability to map any sort of date information in a database to the calendar, this means tickets, bugs, etc. perhaps via a service contract (by Jade)
• There should be any easy UI for specifying what is shown. Both the user and the admin should be able to select these things (the admin sets the range of what is possible, the user can select from those choices) (by Jade)
• Events should be able to span more than a day. Ideally, the UI for this should look good. (by Jade)
• An ability to be able to add data via the calendar as well. Anything that implements the service contract should allow you +to add information on that date as well. For example, add a ticket due that day, or add an event for that day, etc.. (by Jade)
• The calendar needs to be printable (at least for where I work)

Data Model suggestions.

Don:
Calendar items should map arbitrary objects (perhaps only content items) to a given calendar and given acs-events. We shouldn't have to derive special types from cal item type in order to attach it to a calendar (nor should we have to duplicate content to attach it to two calendars as we do now) If we restricted the mapping to content items (i.e. calendar info some sort of content type) we could use the CR's ability to map a template to a given content type or item to make it possible for the calendar package to display calendar item details using that facility, giving the package adding something to the calendar control over how it is displayed. Much more general.

Thanks to

• Raad Al-Rawi from Cambridge University for calendar.css and all of the layout.

This is old stuff and will probably disappear in the near future. (June-2003)

• Original Requirements Document
• permissions
• Usability Test thesis