[Building Sakai] Autogenerate .ics file name in calendar export
Adrian Fish
a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk
Thu Jan 26 07:19:13 PST 2012
Rightyo. I'll hold off 'til then and keep an eye on the list.
Cheers,
Adrian.
On 26/01/2012 15:07, Matthew Jones wrote:
> I was actually going to look at getting the oxford stuff into trunk
> later today/tomorrow and testing some of the export files in various
> clients as we've had some reports of some clients not being able to
> import correctly.
>
> I/we can see then how your suggestion would look with this new
> functionality enabled.
>
> -Matthew
>
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Adrian Fish <a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk
> <mailto:a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
> 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>
>> [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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