[Phpgroupware-developers] Re: Integrating phpgroupware and mozilla calendar

[Mike Potter]

For the record I think this is a great idea.  I would love to see the 
calendar hook into many datasources.
I have no idea really how SOAP works. I know XML but have no idea how 
XML-RPC works in Mozilla.

As for the sidebar, we're thinking of redoing it now.  The sidebar has a 
lot of short comings, and these show up clearly when using the Calendar 
with repeating events.  We were thinking of keep search as a tab, but 
removing the list of events and then adding on a list of servers.  Then, 
you could select the servers that you want to add, and the events would 
show up in the calendar on the right.

I think the calendar is pretty stable right now, but I think that it 
needs some work before we start adding on new features to it.
I want to avoid the problem of Mozilla, whereby new features continue to 
get added before things are stable.
This provides other developers the excuse that they need to help get the 
calendar into a completely functional state.
In any event, I think this is a great idea, and I'm glad to help in any 
way that I can.
Mike

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Buchan Milne wrote:
> I am involved in a project trying to find a replacement for the 
> functionality in the Star Schedule and Star Schedule Server that were 
> part of Star Office 5.2 for OpenOffice.org. Since OpenOffice.org already 
> interfaces with Mozilla (for accessing address-book data) and both are 
> cross-platform and open source, the Mozilla calendar is an interesting 
> option.
>
> The problem with group calendaring (to replace the functionality of the 
> Star Schedule server) is the calendar server. Since phpgroupware already 
> has a "calendar server", and can (or will be able to quite soon) 
> communicate in iCal, and support both SOAP and XML-RPC as transports, it 
> is a possible source of a calendar server.
>
> Would the mozilla calendar hackers be interested in
> -trying to add support for phpgroupware as calendar server
> -adding support for features available in Star Schedule (for example the 
> ability to view free/busy time for all the participants of an event, and 
> easily schedule a meeting in the free time, ability to browse other 
> calendars)?
>
> If so, how would one go about adding support for phpgroupware to Mozilla 
> Calendar? AFAIK mozilla has XML-RPC capability.
> -How would one use this to send an XML-RPC request to phpgroupware.
>
> -How difficult would it be to add another tab (next to "events" and
> "search") in the sidebar for browsing other users in a calendar.
>
> -How difficult would it be to add another "view" at which supported 
> seeing more details of an event (such as participants), or should this 
> be added to the existing event creation dialog?
>
> I believe there are many people who are looking for a solution to this 
> problem, and while a real iCAP compliant calendar client and server 
> would be nice, support for iCal over XML-RPC or SOAP to phpgroupware may 
> be a worthwhile first target to attract users and developers.
>
> Regards,
> Buchan