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

[Adrian Fish]

How about just pre-populating it with a GUID in the server side render 
and avoiding any extra JS? It'd need an instruction saying you can 
change it for something more human, if you wanted to.

On 26/01/2012 12:29, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> Ah ok, sounds like a nice, neat solution. Stick an optional button on 
> the side with a Javascript method to auto generate a UUID and populate 
> the text box :) Jira it!
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
>
>
> On 26/01/2012, at 11:01 PM, Adrian Fish wrote:
>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> Thanks, but I meant something simpler, namely autogenerating a 
>> complicated name for the publicly exported .ics file. So that box 
>> where you type the name of the file you want to export gets 
>> prepopulated with a UUID. That way, as long as students don't pass it 
>> around outside their course it stays private. I realise it's hack, 
>> but it's probably easy to do and better than nothing.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Adrian.
>>
>> On 26/01/2012 11:55, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>>> 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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>>>> B66 Management School
>>>> Lancaster University
>>>> Lancaster
>>>> LA1 4YW
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