[Building Sakai] [Using Sakai] Calendar Subscriptions

[Adrian Fish]

Hi Steve,

They're (Oxford) already part way to getting 2.8 working, so I'd hold 
off until you've spoken to Matthew Buckett.

Cheers,
Adrian.

On 25/11/2011 20:13, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
> 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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.
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> One can always subscribe to public calendars, the main issue with this is that
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 1/ the calendar must be exported
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Here’s the help guide.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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