Michael Bernstein wrote:
I would reccomend taking a look at the following URLs: http://www.geonorth.com/geocalendar/ http://www.when.com http://www.planetall.com
I would love to be able to add events that could be personalized by filtering for category and/or geographical proximity, as well as letting end-users create and manage shared/group calendars with submission, editing and viewing permissions.
Ty's too busy doing real work for me while I get to goof off, so I'll try to reply.
It should be possible to click on a link to see a more detailed listing for an event. This might actually involve creating a separate 'Event' product/class/lever/whatzit and dropping it in, although I'm not sure how you would create events that spanned several dates.
This is where we want to go with this stuff, however, a 'calendar product' appears a bit too limiting, thus why Ty implemented the calendar wrapper in dtml. The one drawback, as mentioned is that a month calendar query may require performing separate queries for each day in the month, depending on the final version. Ty says that if you set caching on the queries, it may not be so bad even still. (I'll let him handle that one :^) Basically we are thinking that the calendar dtml would provide the info as in Ty's example, to another method, which could determine how to publish the items for that day. This could provide an very high degree of flexibility at the expense of having to write the stuff yourself. And of course, I expect we'll see the next version of TinyTables as a result, supporting editable rows (mmmm, tasty). This would mean that you could use a TinyTable to maintain info on how to reference other objects, basically anywhere. You could even have a 'sunset' column where you set an expiration date for the item and a corresponding method to expire items which match the sunset query. This also means that you could simply have one item extend over several days in the tinytable, or you could have a column named 'day', which could contain items which you want displayed for every day that matches (every Monday, or every 1st Monday as an extension) This brings to mind having a 'day list manager' or such which could provide an editable management wrapper for the tinytable. Maybe a folderish object which contains a tinytable or other query object (or combinations thereof) for managing the links. The dtml therein could be changed to support pretty much whatever you need.