[Building Sakai] Schedule tool -- automatic linking of URLs for subscribed iCal feeds?

[Matthew Jones]

Hi Jamie!

Perhaps something client side like jquery autolink would solve this easier
for you? It would seem to me like the description 'probably' isn't html in
the first place and the description is just added as plain text? Looking at
the nba ical [1], the X-ALT-DESC is HTML and the DESCRIPTION is plain text.

An idea would be to use client side javascript to convert this these links
if this is important for your users. This library looks like it would do it
and works with the older jquery (1.1.4) in sakai 2.6

http://kawika.org/jquery/index.php?section=autolink

1) Put jquery.autolink.js into library/js (in tomcat)
/reference/library/src/webapp/js (in the build)
2) Patch chef_calendar_viewActivity.vm to autolink this class (in
sakai-calendar-tool/vm/calendar in tomcat, or
calendar-tool/tool/src/webapp/vm/calendar in the build)

(Full both patches attached, this is live on qa6. It might be worth adding a
target to the href replacement so it doesn't open the link in an iframe)

Alternatively the code might be changed to use the X-ALT-DESC if it exists,
this seemed the easiest way though and would fix all links, not just
imported ones.

With the script (correct clickable link)
[image: Picture 35.png]

Without the script (no clickable link)
[image: Picture 36.png]


[1] http://www.ics-calendars.com/schedule/nba-2008-09.ics

-Matthew

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Jamie C. Tsui <tsui at stanford.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Since it seems that iCal feeds don't support HTML in the description
> portion of the entry, has anyone implemented a function to automatically
> turn URLs in the description into links? Outlook, Google Calendar, etc.
> will turn URLs into clickable links, but Sakai will not.
>
> We are just wondering if anyone has modified the tool to do so, before
> we go ahead and make the modification ourselves.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jamie
>
>
>
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