[Zope] looking for zope smart-calendar advice.ideas

[Chris Withers]

You may want to have a look at the Calendar Tag ;-)

http://www.zope.org/Members/jdavid/Calendar

Chris

Jason Cunliffe wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> Looking for zope calendar advice and ideas..
> 
> Design goal: A Zope smart-calendar product which allows very interactive
> setting and display of calendars in a range of formats. Features:
> - version 1: HTML only
> - version 2: FLASH [ready to pass values to and from flash interface]
> - XML formatting of user_calendars #allow structured loading and saving of
> user calendar data
> - XMLRPC methods to allow group calendars to talk to each other and have an
> 'invisible' toggle.
> - Allow user permissions to modify what is shown, how it appears etc
> - Users can select a range of days and then assign forms, URLs, images, text
> - methods include: 'on_select', 'on-click',..'link to selected',
> 'link_to_first', 'e-mail_selection', etc .
> 
> As an example, see the excellent Sheridan Calendar Widgets ActiveX components
> http://www.sheridan.com
> feature a trio of day, week, month, year controls and properties which
> allow wide variation in the style and presentation of these. Fast and
> pretty easy to use.
> 
> If anyone has seen any good-looking and good-running calendars in HTML,
> Java, Zope, ???, then please let me know.
> 
> I have played with Behive's Calendar product and it may be a matter of
> extending that, but I would love to hear of other work planned or ongoing,
> plus any ideas you may have about the requirements/interest for
> implementing such a creature.
> 
> Ideally we would like to have rapid highly object-oriented methods to
> restyle or rescale the calendar rapidly through DTML.Python methods:
> 
> Some wishful examples:
> 
> <dtml-var calendar_Make_thumbnail(64,64, expanded = [320,240])>
> # when clicked on it expands from 64x64 to 320x240 size
> 
> <dtml-var calendar_scale(216, 240)
> <dtml-var calendar_expand_to_fit_frame>
> <dtml-var calendar_style(footer_style, default='house_style')>
> <dtml-var calendar_SetImage(selected_dates, 'lovelyimage.jpg')>
> 
> - Jason
> ________________________________________________
> Jason CUNLIFFE = Nomadics.Studio(DesignDirector)
> Smart_Map_Systems[design.technology.application]
> <jasonic@nomadicsltd.com>  tel:+33 4 94.76.98.72
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