Saturday, May 06, 2006

Events

Events on FOLD have been improved somewhat. In addition to viewing the calendar of events, events can now be located by group and by person. The list of personal events includes the events of all groups of which the person is a member.

We have also extended the event handling so that exams and courework deadlines are now treated as events. They are now included in a person's list of events.

Further work is required to enhance the integration with Outlook. Currently only group events will generate a vcal entry to add to Outlook, but we intend to be able to add a whole set of events, including module-related events. We also plan to support icalendar, the later version of vcal as well. At present we cant seem to get the file generated correctly with XQuery and have to use a small PHP script. It is a challenge to use Xquery/XSLT for everything.

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