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

3: Re: Calendar: how to add public events? (response to 2)

Posted by Tom Lazar on 05/01/03 06:41 PM

Hi Tom,

thanks for the hint, although I don't quite know what it means to 'set an audience' for a calendar...

in the end i've settled with the following sql statement

update calendars set private_p = 'f';

Now I'll just have to figure out, either how to make new calendars public by default (not so nice) or how to enable people to add events to a calendar other than their own (i.e. the public one)

any hints on that?

thx,

4: Re: Calendar: how to add public events? (response to 3)

Posted by Sean Redmond on 05/01/03 07:24 PM

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.