[Building Sakai] Autogenerate .ics file name in calendar export

[Steve Swinsburg]

Oxford did work on this, here's the post about it:


On 26/11/2011, at 2:49 AM, Adam Marshall 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


cheers,
Steve



On 26/01/2012, at 8:50 PM, Adrian Fish wrote:

> Does anybody know if here is a JIRA for something like this:
> 
> In the calendar subscription export page of the calendar tool it would 
> be a nice easy change to just autogenerate a hard to guess name for the 
> .ics file, a UUID perhaps. Just populate the text field with it but 
> still allow the user to change it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Adrian.
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