Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: 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.