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

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Posted by Christian Fuchs on
Thanks for this quick response. 😊

In a learning enviroment (ie. dotlrn) it is very essential for user to have a very good calendar. Users are used to outlook, notes and others so it is very important not to be to far behind. I know that programming a webinterface is not comparable with Windows Programs, but it is necessary to bring Calendar (the openacs) module a big step forward.

Most important things.
* different colors for different calendar sources
* easy and nice printout of week and monthly calendar
* Possibility to link one calendar item to many classes or community on creation or editing
* Attach files
* Change of repeating events after creation (if you have a different repeating sequence there is no way of changing the sequence)
* Site-wide calendar for holidays
* Department-wide calendars.

I think the above could easily be integrated in the calendar module and openacs would be a big step towards functionality and user interface.

Please not that I am a teacher, not a programmer (although I have a programming background), who manages a large learning site in Austria in Higher education and I am very interested in better user interfaces and functionality user need to work.