Forum OpenACS Q&A: Calendar: how to add public events?

I think you add a Calendar with "The Public" as an audience. Then you add events to that calendar.

The Calendar package is a mess. There are no controls for who can post to a calendar. If you want any integrety, as a work around, just mount it somewhere obscure so you can post events, then make a read only calendar using the view page (and the page which shows individual events).

As an example check out the Uniques Unicycle Club Calendar. I just select from a single calendar for these events.

My hint is to stop trying, because every step you take will lead you further into a swamp. We use OACS for our intranet where we had hoped to be able to have a convenient way to handle personal, departmental and institutional calendars, but it's just impossible.

The frustrating thing is, until we have a good calendar solution, people will keep asking us why we don't just use Outlook and it raises a barrier to their full acceptance of an intranet on which we've worked very hard.

For the good of OACS in the workplace there really needs to be a concerted effort to revamp the calendar so that it can handle:

• Sharing
• Repeating events
• Notification
• The kind of meeting scheduling through email invitations that Outlook does

I'd happily help out in any such effort with coding and testing, but I think it's so central a functionality that the impetus should really come from the core OACS developers.

thanks for that: I just found the admin page with your help! there is no link to it, but when i manually enter the url

/calendar/admin/

i actually get an admin page, wow ;-)

of course, this was *after* i manually converted one of the Personal calendars to public...

anyway, now i got the setup i wanted: everybody has a private calendar and can post to the public one.

one thing, though: when i click onto 'edit your calendar preferences' i get the following error:

Database operation "select" failed (exception NSDB, "Query was not a statement returning rows.")

ERROR:  Attribute 'party_id' not found

SQL:


        select  distinct(o.object_id) as calendar_id,
                calendar__name(o.object_id) as calendar_name,
                calendar__show_p(o.object_id, '292') as show_p
        from    acs_objects o
        where    calendar__readable_p(o.object_id, '292') = 't'
        and      party_id = '292'
        and      acs_object_util__object_type_p(o.object_id, 'calendar') = 't'
        and      calendar__private_p(o.object_id) = 'f'

        union

        select  cal_item__on_which_calendar(o.object_id) as calendar_id,
                calendar__name(cal_item__on_which_calendar(o.object_id)) as calendar_name,
                calendar__show_p(cal_item__on_which_calendar(o.object_id), '292') as show_p
        from    acs_objects o
        where    privilege = 'cal_item_read'
        and      party_id = '292'
        and      acs_object_util__object_type_p(o.object_id, 'cal_item') = 't'
        and      calendar__private_p(cal_item__on_which_calendar(o.object_id)) = 'f'

any ideas?