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| Voff_ | hello | 14:35 |
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| mgedmin | hi | 14:36 |
| Voff_ | got time for some Q's? | 14:36 |
| mgedmin | a bit | 14:39 |
| Voff_ | I'll just fire away, answer at will :) | 14:40 |
| Voff_ | I am looking into how schholbell could be integrated into an Active Directory set-up, mixed Win/OSX platform | 14:41 |
| Voff_ | ultimately, the users would have their own "time-blocking" calendars, and a project leader would sync those calendars to main project based work-calendars, also including "holiday-calendars" | 14:42 |
| Voff_ | and, for users to be able to combine, in a web-interface, selected calendars. | 14:43 |
| Voff_ | To each calendar the users has been asigned a project-calendar, they should have permissions to edit/update their time-slots in a iCal-compliant software of choice | 14:44 |
| Voff_ | is schoolbell for me? | 14:44 |
| Voff_ | syncML integration, is this something you are thinking about? | 14:45 |
| Voff_ | maybe something like this: http://sync4j.funambol.com/main.jsp?main=theproject | 14:45 |
| Voff_ | http://phpicalendar.net/forums/ presents the calendars in a nice manner, with the ability to combine different layers of choice, but lacks sorely the calendar editing functionality | 14:47 |
| Voff_ | there is a software called Now-up-to-date that basically does this, but i am looking for an open-source project that in the long run can be integrated into a project administration tool using PHP/SQL hooks. | 14:50 |
| mgedmin | oops, i got a bit distracted | 15:00 |
| Voff_ | np. am working | 15:01 |
| Voff_ | sorry for my bad spelling, am Swedish | 15:01 |
| mgedmin | users will be able to combine several calendars in a web interface -- it's not done yet, but its is planned | 15:05 |
| mgedmin | I'm not sure what you mean about integration with Active Directory | 15:06 |
| mgedmin | afaik AD is more or less LDAP | 15:06 |
| mgedmin | do you want to get user and group information from AD? | 15:06 |
| Voff_ | yes | 15:07 |
| mgedmin | there were some talks about supporting LDAP in SchoolTool, but all of that is postponed for an undetermined later time | 15:07 |
| mgedmin | it would be possible to write a small external script that extracts user/group data from LDAP and creates those users and groups in a SchoolTool server | 15:08 |
| Voff_ | might be wise to think about it, especially in large environment situations with many users | 15:08 |
| mgedmin | schoolbell currently has one calendar per user/group, and you can edit that calendar either on the web or via an iCalendar client that speaks HTTP | 15:09 |
| mgedmin | (HTTP GET and PUT to be precise) | 15:09 |
| mgedmin | there are currently some problems with some iCalendar clients (including Apple's iCal), but we plan to add workarounds for those clients | 15:10 |
| Voff_ | so: in project X i would have 10 persons, would their permissions anable them to ONLY edit their own timeslots, but at the same time see the whole groups schedulings? | 15:11 |
| mgedmin | php icalendar looks nice -- I wish we had seen it when we were designing HTML calendar views | 15:11 |
| mgedmin | you can do that, yes | 15:12 |
| mgedmin | access to calendars in SchoolTool can be defined with ACLs | 15:12 |
| Voff_ | can OSX iCal users edit, or do they have to use the web interface | 15:12 |
| mgedmin | you could give view permission for all 10 users and modify permission only to one of the users | 15:12 |
| *Voff_ am not a programmer, ACL menas nothing to me | 15:12 | |
| mgedmin | access control list | 15:13 |
| Voff_ | k, thanks | 15:13 |
| mgedmin | but AFAIU you want the group calendar to be a composite of all user's calendars | 15:13 |
| Voff_ | right | 15:13 |
| mgedmin | currently SchoolTool does not do calendar composition, but I think it will in the future | 15:13 |
| Voff_ | even composites of different project-calendars | 15:13 |
| mgedmin | do you want composition for the web views only | 15:14 |
| Voff_ | to quickly find empty timeslots etc | 15:14 |
| mgedmin | or do you also want to view the composed calendar with an iCal client | 15:14 |
| Voff_ | brb, phone | 15:14 |
| mgedmin | or do you also want to edit the composed calendar with an iCal client? | 15:14 |
| Voff_ | that would be great | 15:15 |
| Voff_ | cross-platform integration means a lot of different parameters to consider, i know... | 15:16 |
| mgedmin | editing composed calendars is a bit tricky | 15:16 |
| mgedmin | when a new event is added, how do you know which of the source calendars it should go into | 15:16 |
| mgedmin | also, I had the impression that iCalendar clients can do the composition on the client side | 15:17 |
| mgedmin | at least Mozilla Calendar can | 15:17 |
| Voff_ | right so | 15:17 |
| Voff_ | so there's separate calendars for each project/group, and on the user side one enables what calendars you want as a composite | 15:17 |
| Voff_ | Apple's "iCal" works like this | 15:18 |
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