Hi all, Fighting to be able to follow the development process of the product and fulfil some of our users' requirements! I've a group that need to share a calendar. A quite frequent requirement. The EventCalendarApplication developed by Guillaume could help us to solve this problem and sticks with XWiki, but I would like to know if any further development is expected for it. One more time I must recognize that I am still far from being able to help with this development, but I keep trying to catch up. This application adds Microformats to my to-do list... :-( What we need now in addition to the current features is to filter events on an user/group basis. That is, to apply rights on an event basis. As far as I see, if I set any access rights now, they will apply to the whole calendar. Google calendar offers a nice option to be accessed from several calendar clients as iCal, Sunbird or Thunderbird. Has anybody considered to develop a XWiki client to access Google calendars? Thank you for your insight, -- Ricardo Rodríguez Your XEN ICT Team
A few ideas - I have not created the application, only documented it on XWiki.org... But you can thank Ludovic & Marta for it :-) - I cannot really help you on the development part but I fear the current implementation of the calendar is not powerful enough to support your needs without a heavy lifting - You could try to embed a Google Calendar on a wiki page, the only drawback being that it would require your users to have both a XWiki and a Google account, making rights setting redundant... And this is far from a true XWiki client, only a iframe ish implementation. - Another basic way to do it would be to provide one calendar per space by copying the application ClassSheet and ClassTemplate in every space where you want to use it, but you will end up with as many calendars as groups and no overview. Sorry I cannot help more, Guillaume On 05/09/07, Your XEN ICT Team - Ricardo Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
Fighting to be able to follow the development process of the product and fulfil some of our users' requirements!
I've a group that need to share a calendar. A quite frequent requirement.
The EventCalendarApplication developed by Guillaume could help us to solve this problem and sticks with XWiki, but I would like to know if any further development is expected for it. One more time I must recognize that I am still far from being able to help with this development, but I keep trying to catch up. This application adds Microformats to my to-do list... :-(
What we need now in addition to the current features is to filter events on an user/group basis. That is, to apply rights on an event basis. As far as I see, if I set any access rights now, they will apply to the whole calendar.
Google calendar offers a nice option to be accessed from several calendar clients as iCal, Sunbird or Thunderbird. Has anybody considered to develop a XWiki client to access Google calendars?
Thank you for your insight,
-- Ricardo Rodríguez Your XEN ICT Team
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Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
A few ideas
* I have not created the application, only documented it on XWiki.org... But you can thank Ludovic & Marta for it :-) * I cannot really help you on the development part but I fear the current implementation of the calendar is not powerful enough to support your needs without a heavy lifting * You could try to embed a Google Calendar on a wiki page, the only drawback being that it would require your users to have both a XWiki and a Google account, making rights setting redundant... And this is far from a true XWiki client, only a iframe ish implementation. * Another basic way to do it would be to provide one calendar per space by copying the application ClassSheet and ClassTemplate in every space where you want to use it, but you will end up with as many calendars as groups and no overview.
Sorry I cannot help more, Guillaume First of all, thanks Ludovic & Marta for the application and all XWiki work and thanks to you for your message!
I see. So I am afraid I will keep fighting with XWiki basis and look for the calendar solution in other brick of the wall, so far! Thanks again, -- Ricardo Rodríguez Your XEN ICT Team
In addition to Google Calendar (www.google.com/calendar) you might also look at www.spongecell.com and www.kiko.com I've used all three to some extent, as I did significant research over a couple of months trying to find a free, no ads, no spam solution for a bible study group I lead at my church. I needed a web-based calendar solution - but one that is either low-cost or free, and has no spam or ads...... You might think this would be an easy search with lots of solutions. And, yes, there are a lot of webcalendars out in the market. However, what really narrowed the list of solutions down is the next requirement: The web-calendar needs to be able send out invites/RSVP's to an event that was added to the calendar and then handle the responses (yes, no, maybe) as well as comments from the guests. As if you are holding an event, you want to be able to track who is coming and any details about them (what food they are bringing to the event, etc...) in the comments section. These are the only three solutions I found, and all three work reasonably well. I'm hoping that the XWiki team could add some (or all) of these functions to XWiki or find a way to integrate one or more of these solutions into an XWiki Site. The current calendar in XWiki is really not usable in its current incarnation (in my opinion) as it lacks important functionality. (but everything else about XWiki is really cool). David K. Whisler From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guillaume Lerouge Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 5:03 AM To: XWiki Users Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] calendar application A few ideas * I have not created the application, only documented it on XWiki.org... But you can thank Ludovic & Marta for it :-) * I cannot really help you on the development part but I fear the current implementation of the calendar is not powerful enough to support your needs without a heavy lifting * You could try to embed a Google Calendar on a wiki page, the only drawback being that it would require your users to have both a XWiki and a Google account, making rights setting redundant... And this is far from a true XWiki client, only a iframe ish implementation. * Another basic way to do it would be to provide one calendar per space by copying the application ClassSheet and ClassTemplate in every space where you want to use it, but you will end up with as many calendars as groups and no overview. Sorry I cannot help more, Guillaume On 05/09/07, Your XEN ICT Team - Ricardo Rodriguez <[email protected] > wrote: Hi all, Fighting to be able to follow the development process of the product and fulfil some of our users' requirements! I've a group that need to share a calendar. A quite frequent requirement. The EventCalendarApplication developed by Guillaume could help us to solve this problem and sticks with XWiki, but I would like to know if any further development is expected for it. One more time I must recognize that I am still far from being able to help with this development, but I keep trying to catch up. This application adds Microformats to my to-do list... :-( What we need now in addition to the current features is to filter events on an user/group basis. That is, to apply rights on an event basis. As far as I see, if I set any access rights now, they will apply to the whole calendar. Google calendar offers a nice option to be accessed from several calendar clients as iCal, Sunbird or Thunderbird. Has anybody considered to develop a XWiki client to access Google calendars? Thank you for your insight, -- Ricardo Rodríguez Your XEN ICT Team _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- http://wikibc.blogspot.com/
Whisler, Dave wrote:
In addition to Google Calendar (www.google.com/calendar <http://www.google.com/calendar>) you might also look at www.spongecell.com <http://www.spongecell.com> and www.kiko.com <http://www.kiko.com>
I've used all three to some extent, as I did significant research over a couple of months trying to find a free, no ads, no spam solution for a bible study group I lead at my church. I needed a web-based calendar solution -- but one that is either low-cost or free, and has no spam or ads...... You might think this would be an easy search with lots of solutions. And, yes, there are a lot of webcalendars out in the market.
However, what really narrowed the list of solutions down is the next requirement: The web-calendar needs to be able send out invites/RSVP's to an event that was added to the calendar and then handle the responses (yes, no, maybe) as well as comments from the guests. As if you are holding an event, you want to be able to track who is coming and any details about them (what food they are bringing to the event, etc...) in the comments section.
These are the only three solutions I found, and all three work reasonably well. I'm hoping that the XWiki team could add some (or all) of these functions to XWiki or find a way to integrate one or more of these solutions into an XWiki Site.
The current calendar in XWiki is really not usable in its current incarnation (in my opinion) as it lacks important functionality. (but everything else about XWiki is really cool).
David K. Whisler
Thanks, David. Your experience is of major importance for us! Please, what solution have you finally adopted? I will sign up for both Spongcell and Kiki trying to evaluate the pros and contras of each option. I am quite happy so far by using Google Calendar: it is rather easy to integrate it in Thunderbird. What I have not clear at all is if it is possible to set up Google Calendar to automatically send email reminders to a given event attendees. Do you know if this is possible by using any of the other solutions? I am afraid this thread is going of topic: we are not speaking about XWiki :-) Even though it could be useful to keep this thread updated to help further developments in XWiki Calendar. All the best, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez Your XEN ICT Team
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