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

[Adrian Fish]

Would what I suggest clash/overlap with the Oxford stuff?

On 26/01/2012 13:35, Adam Marshall wrote:
>
> A patch exists and people are using the code.
>
> adam
>
> *From:*sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org 
> [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] *On Behalf Of 
> *Steve Swinsburg
> *Sent:* 26 January 2012 12:49
> *To:* Adrian Fish
> *Cc:* Sakai Dev
> *Subject:* Re: [Building Sakai] Autogenerate .ics file name in 
> calendar export
>
> Yeah that would work too. I reckon go for it.
>
> I like the Oxford private calendars function as well (can that get 
> patched up and submitted? We would love that feature!).
>
> cheers
>
> On 26/01/2012, at 11:45 PM, Adrian Fish wrote:
>
>
>
> 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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