Getting Dates with Plone - Plone Conference 2008

Getting Dates with Plone Aaron VanDerlip, Jazkarta.com 2008 Plone Conference 2008 Plone Conference www.jazkarta.com 1 (888) 756-6348

But what this is really about Plone4ArtistsCalendar mostly But there is a lot under the hood (or bonnet) 2008 Plone Conference www.jazkarta.com 1 (888) 756-6348

Background First there was Plone4Artists Calendar it was a bit of monolith 2008 Plone Conference www.jazkarta.com 1 (888) 756-6348

Lennart Regebro == Hero

Overview • dateable.chronos • dateable.kalends • p4a.subtyper • p4a.plonecalendar • p4a.event 2008 Plone Conference www.jazkarta.com 1 (888) 756-6348

dateable.chronos Icalendar support The user interface Not implemented yet dateable.kalends Defines interfaces and functionality p4a.plonecalendar p4a.ploneevent Extends Plone with Extends the standard the Kalends functionality Event with recurrence Plone Events and Folders

Mix-ins hard to work with

Separate concerns, common interface

dateable.chronos • Provides calendar views • Calls event providers to • Reusable outside Plone4Artists 2008 Plone Conference www.jazkarta.com 1 (888) 756-6348

p4a.plonecalendar • Registers Folder and Topic types to implement IPossibleCalenedar • Provides hooks forimport/export of iCal feeds • Implements the necessary kalends interface for events providers 2008 Plone Conference www.jazkarta.com 1 (888) 756-6348

Rocky Burt == Hero

p4a.subtyper • Its slick • Provides hooks to register type into the UI and the back end • In a nutshell, a way to provide marker interfaces 2008 Plone Conference www.jazkarta.com 1 (888) 756-6348

p4a.event • Implements dateable.kalends.IRecurringEvent • Wraps the object using factory • uses schemaextender to add Recurrence support to the Event type 2008 Plone Conference www.jazkarta.com 1 (888) 756-6348

Recurrence is cool

Let’s demo the tools • Markup some types • Import some external data • Build a small app 2008 Plone Conference www.jazkarta.com 1 (888) 756-6348

Getting the date

To do • improve iCal import/export • microformats (coming real soon) • test to be sure the above work • UI 2008 Plone Conference www.jazkarta.com 1 (888) 756-6348

Further reading • http://www.serverzen.com/ training/subtyping-unleashed • http://regebro.wordpress.com/ 2008/03/08/whats-up-with- dateable/ 2008 Plone Conference www.jazkarta.com 1 (888) 756-6348

Thanks! aaron (at) jazkarta.com www.jazkarta.com 2008 Plone Conference www.jazkarta.com 1 (888) 756-6348

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