Calendar for Plone

Olha Pelishok © Quintagroup 2010 Calendar in Plone Overview of Plone add-ons for creating calendars

Plone Calendaring Issue
Plone Cathedral Sprint 2010 : integrate collective.calendarwidget with Plone 4
PloneConf 2009 Sprint : P4A Calendar + vs.event
PloneConf 2008 Sprint : Dateable and Calendaring
Boston Plone Calendaring Sprint 2008 : extend the calendaring capabilities of Plone
Plone Conference 2006 : P4A Calendar Lightning Talk
Calendar Sprint 2005 : Plone's calendaring options

Calendar add-ons for Plone
CalendarX
Plone4Artists Calendar
zopyx.multieventcalendar
vs.event
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CalendarX

CalendarX
Initial release: Sep 2005
Last stable release: Dec, 2009
Compatible with Plone 3
С ontributors : Lupa Zurven, Oliver Merkel , Alec Mitchell , Scott Sturgeon, Joris Bauer, Gaël Pegliasco, George Lee , Guy Heckman , Alex Clark , Gilles Lenfant

CalendarX — week by hour view

CalendarX Configuration Manage tab:

Features
adds new content type - CalendarX
8 tabs with options for tweaking calendar format, event display, widgets, and more
57 options regarding calendarX CSS cosmetics
Configurable SubCalendars , Learn more popup box, Add new Event button

CalendarX — Events Filtering by category http://ww5.smithtown.k12.ny.us/calendar/month

CalendarX — Adjustable CSS styles per category http://cascadiagbc.org/calendar

CalendarX — Adjustable colors http://www.kftc.org/calendar/month

CalendarX — Configurable display of portal_types http://www.teampriorityhealth.com/Calendar

CalendarX Resume
New highly configurable content type - CalendarX
Sensible navigation :
previous/next month, week or day via a text link
jump to a specific date in the past or future
Five calendar views : 3 m onths, month, week by day, week by hour, and daily

Plone4ArtistsCalendar
dateable.chronos
datable.kalends
p4a.plonecalendar
p4a.ploneevents
p4a.subtypes

Initial release: Nov 2007
Last alpha release: Oct 05, 2008
Contributors : Lennart Regebro , Rocky Burt , Nate Aune

Features
No new content types
Calendar support : a ny folder or collection/topic can be calendar activated
Several default views i n cluding: Daily, Weekly, and Monthly view
Import local & online iCal files

p4a.plonecalendar — month view

p4a.plonecalendar – week view

Chronological event listing view

Calendar configuration dateable.chronos

Represent recurring events - p4a.ploneevent

p4a.plonecalendar Resume
Recurring events
Import support (.ics files + online URLs)
Different vies including chronological view

Initial release: Jun 2008
Last stable release: Mar 2009
Author : Andreas Jung

Features
Moredates additional tab for Event
Export support
Month and Listing views

Event - 5 supplementary date fields

http://example.com/ zme_calendar

zopyx.multieventcalendar – month view

zopyx.multieventcalendar – flat listing

vs.event

vs.event
Initial release: Jun 2009
Last stable release: Apr 2010
Contributors : Andreas Jung , Veit Schiele , Anne Walther

Features
Adds new content type – VSEvent
Full integration with Plone4Artists Calendar
Import and Export of iCal and vCal files

VSEvent Features
Recurring events (based on p4a.ploneevent)
All-day events (no hours)
Attendees with roles and RSVP
Attachments as links or files
Supplementary events

VSEvent edit

VSEvent

VSEvents in p4a calendar

vs.event Use cases
Series of lectures A series of lectures can be a recurring event. Then the particular events can be realized as supplementary events.
Conferences Conferences often have supplementary events like call for papers, lectures etc, early bird and closing registration dates
Milestones, Deadlines In project management Milestones and Deadlines can be managed as supplementary events.

More Calendaring...

More Calendaring Products...
Calendaring (stable, 2008, Plone 2.5, 3)
Bika Calendar (stable, 2008, Plone 2.5)
Dateable (beta, 2007, Plone 2.5)
PloneiCalendar (stable, 2006, Plone 2.1)
Plone Calendar (2003)

Questions...?

References
Calendar/Events category at http://plone.org/products
http://www.contentmanagementsoftware.info/plone/calendar
http://www.packtpub.com/article/calendaring-with-plone-3-for-education
http://vlent.nl/weblog/getting-dates-with-plone-aaron-vanderlip
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zopyx.multieventcalendar/0.1.4.2
http://www.zopyx.com/projects/zopyx.multieventcalendar/
http://www.zopyx.com/blog/events-in-plone-revisited-vs-event

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Calendar for Plone

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