[Using Sakai] interactions between 2 import and 2 export functions within calendar?

[Keli Sato Amann]

Hello,
We are really interested in adding is Oxford's SAK-21497, which adds a button called "Subscribe" to your Site or My Workspace Schedule. It generates a random URL for your site or My workspace calendar that you can add to your personal calendar. It is only running on their 2.8 instance, but we'll give it a shot. If we get it to work, we might rename it ("Get URL"?) and get rid of "Subscriptions(Export)" which also generates a URL, but forces you to name your calendar/URL and is therefore not terribly secure--someone might guess it.

I guess we'll find out if no one has tried this, but do events imported into your course calendar (either via "Import" or "Subscriptions(import)") also get put into the exported calendar (either via "Subscribe" or "Subscriptions(Export)")? Also, what happens if you do the reverse: generate a URL  for your course site Calendar, then import it into another site calendar by either method?  I seem to recall some issues but can't find an exact thread or JIRA to look it up. 

When we recently upgraded to 2.9, we forgot to uncomment calendar.external.subscriptions.enable=true, so we don't have a Subscriptions(import) button, just an Import. However,  I checked with the one school that was using this feature and they are no longer depending on it. So maybe we won't add this back in if are there any problems with loops.

Keli Amann
User Experience Specialist
Academic Computing Services, Stanford University