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Drupal Calendaring, A Technological Solution
This document discusses solutions for common calendar and event scheduling problems. It describes an event that recurs weekly except on specific dates, and allows for custom details. It also covers using iCalendar specifications to move events between sites, creating saved searches with short URLs, and using Atom and PubSubHubbub protocols to sync changes in events across multiple calendars.
Drupal Calendaring, A Technological Solution
- 1. The Technology Suite Solvingthe calendar problem.
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- 3. I have thisevent that... Happens on every Tuesday and Thursday at 2 and 4 pm, Except for Thanksgiving, And on the first Friday of December at 3 pm.
- 4. Event Instance CustomDetails For example, you have a special guest speaker.
- 5. Search With saved searchesand short names (example.com/s/abc123).
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- 7. A Challenge Built itto be reusable by others.
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- 21. Saved Searches • Searchwith facets. • Saved searches with short urls (example.com/s/abc123). • Saved searches with names (example.com/s/myEvent). • Lots of management options and permission settings. • Works with core search, Lucene, and Solr.
- 22. Many to Oneon Change
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Editor's Notes
- #2 Thank Balboa Park Online Collaborative.
- #3 BPOC came to us with 4 engineering problems and a challenge. These were things many had asked for but have not seen on the market
- #4 Already a way to do some recurrances in Drupal. But, nothing this detailed.
- #6 The cruise use case.
- #10 Explain nodes and fields in Drupal.
- #11 A single node with possibly hundreds of instances and specific details does not scale. Date repeat can only do on recurrence rule.
- #12 Instance nodes work with - calendaring solutions for drupal - provide way to store all the meta data around it - instance specific differences - Search Other systems don't grow well. Nodes designed to grow. Drupal millions of nodes capable.
- #14 Explain fields iCal Field is multivalue cck field with custom UI.
- #16 Updating Rule
- #17 Excluding Rule
- #18 Edit instance with pencil
- #19 Instances Each own node
- #20 Inherited Field Formatter. Children cck fields, when empty, inherit from parent.
- #21 ical package (with feature)
- #23 problem with regular feeds and number of items - new items - deletes deploying on change not an admin special action.
- #25 Are we there yet?