Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: Calendar - Openacs sooo slow now?

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Posted by Hamilton Chua on
Just additional info about google's calendar api. I noticed that the API does not provide user interface, it only allows adding and retrieving events (or other info about events) from google.

Therefore, if we decide later on to integrate this to an openacs package we will still need to use the calendar User Interface procs to present the events in a nice calendar interface.

A google calendar api package will in essence be a service that exposes a series of tcl procs that other packages can call to add, retrieve, edit or synchronize events with google calendar.

In dotLRN for instance, an openacs google calendar package can be used to publish the events for a particular class. We don't get rid of the calendar/events app in dotlrn but rather augment it by providing the ability for it to sync with individual student's google calendars for instance.