[Building Sakai] Permissions for calendar export (iCal)

[Kirschner, Beth]

Hi Curtis,

Feel free to write up a JIRA or a patch to resolve this - I did a quick check and it seems your understanding is correct (though the calendar.subscribe and calendar.import permissions are primarily needed).

- Beth

On Mar 26, 2014, at 11:23 AM, Curtis Van-Osch <curtis.van-osch at hec.ca> wrote:

> Hello, 
> I'm having a little trouble getting the schedule tool working as we would like, specifically the iCal export.  The permissions seems a little wonky to me, at least for the use cases we are targeting.
> 
> Concerning the "Subscriptions (export)" button:
> 	• In order for anyone to see the button at all, they require the calendar.new permission.
> 		• This means that students will never be able to access the iCal url, since we cannot give them permission to create new events in the course calendar.
> 	• For there to be anything on the export page, one requires the calendar.import permission. Seems counter-intuitive.
> 	• In  order to enable/disable the iCal url, one requires calendar.revise.any
> 		• This is problematic for us also, as we've written a Quartz job to automatically create events in the course, and we don't want the instructors modifying them.  So, we cannot allow them to activate the export either. 
> So is my understanding of the permissions correct?  We're running Sakai 2.9.1, and I understand this feature is still considered experimental.  I haven't seen anything about this in Jira.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help!
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