[Building Sakai] [Using Sakai] Calendar Subscriptions

[Steve Swinsburg]

Excellent work. We had a user enquire about this just the other day. Will work on pulling this into our build. 

This is a great feature that should definitely be in 2.10. 

Cheers
Steve

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On 26/11/2011, at 2:49, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> We have written a patch to implement a "private URLs" for all site calendars. 
> 
> These are unique non guessable URLs (one per user) that one can subscribe to in all calendaring clients (including MS Outlook). This means that a calendar does not have to be exported (ie, made public) in order to subscribe to it. Marge calendars will appears in the ical feed and there is a link on the synoptic view.  
> 
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-21497 now has patch for 2.6 (we are working on a 2.8 version, no plans to do a 2.7 patch I'm afraid). We'd love to get it in 2.10.
> 
> You'll probably need to apply: https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-19909 too - this is serious bug for anybodty wanting to export calendars.
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> Look at: https://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/adamweblearn/2011/11/subscribing-to-weblearn-calendars-using-outlook/  for screenshots and a how to guide. 
> 
> adam
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Keli Sato Amann [mailto:kamann at stanford.edu]
>> Sent: 23 November 2011 18:34
>> To: Adam Marshall
>> Cc: Lydia Li
>> Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Calendar Subscriptions
>> 
>> Hi Adam,
>> I just realized you had sent a note a few weeks earlier about this that you
>> had actually finished this, but for 2.6--we are still on 2.6 ourselves, is this
>> something you can share now? cc'ing our developer Lydia. We'd love to use
>> this, and I only wish I'd realized you already had this for 2.6 sooner
>> 
>> Keli
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Keli Sato Amann" <kamann at stanford.edu>
>> To: "Adam Marshall" <adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk>
>> Cc: "Warwick Chapman" <warwickchapman at gmail.com>, "sakai-user"
>> <sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org>
>> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 9:28:10 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Calendar Subscriptions
>> 
>> Wow, Adam, thanks for working on this and letting us know (and Warwick,
>> thanks for asking the question)! Just yesterday, our team was talking about
>> the current Subscribe feature and security issues we'd have with it. We'd like
>> to make schedule information available outside of Sakai, so people can see
>> academic events in their personal calendars. I will forward this on to my team
>> and someone (more technical than I) will probably be in contact with you to
>> check this out.
>> 
>> Keli Amann
>> User Experience Specialist
>> Academic Computing Specialist, Stanford University
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Adam Marshall" <adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk>
>> To: "Warwick Chapman" <warwickchapman at gmail.com>, "sakai-user"
>> <sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org>
>> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 7:03:49 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Calendar Subscriptions
>> 
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>> One can always subscribe to public calendars, the main issue with this is that
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>> 1/ the calendar must be exported
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>> 
>> 2/ there is no way that a student can find out the URL of the ical feed.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> If you mean subscribe to a NON-PUBLIC calendar then we have just finished
>> some code that will allow this. When I say just … I mean like yesterday.
>> 
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>> Here’s the help guide.
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>> 
>> We can supply the code upon request and will be adding a patch to jira in due
>> course. It’s a shame it didn’t quite make it for 2.9
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> adam
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>> From: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-user-
>> bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Warwick Chapman
>> Sent: 22 September 2011 20:41
>> To: sakai-user
>> Subject: [Using Sakai] Calendar Subscriptions
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Howdy
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>> 
>> Are users able to subscribe to their calendars (schedule tool) at all?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- Warwick Bruce Chapman | +27 83 7797 094 | http://warwickchapman.com
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