Make a calendar portlet available for intranet home pages

[Paul Everitt]

The "universal" calendar needs a portlet in the middle column on the intranet home page. That means an adapter which gives a portlet layout. After that, it gets injected into the home page by editing the intranet and adding the reference to the textarea.

This is going to be a challenging portlet. To get the events, you have to poke through the layers which then reference the communities. Could be a performance issue.

Balazs will be starting a branch for the universal calendar so this work can happen there.

(Note that this is for M69 next week.)

[Chris Rossi (chris-archimedeanco)]

Can you tell me a little bit more about the universal calendar? I assume the portlet will look the same as the network-events portlet.

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

The universal calendar is a calendar with a different "layout". If you simply make a portlet adapter that is capable of working with a community calendar, it should do the trick.

The portlet itself should look like:

  https://agendaless.mybalsamiq.com/projects/karl/universal-calendar-overview

…which I believe is the same as network events.

--Paul

On Aug 15, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Chris Rossi wrote:

> Can you tell me a little bit more about the universal calendar? I
> assume the portlet will look the same as the network-events portlet.
>
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> Title:
> Make a calendar portlet available for intranet home pages
>
> Status in KARL3:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> The "universal" calendar needs a portlet in the middle column on the
> intranet home page. That means an adapter which gives a portlet
> layout. After that, it gets injected into the home page by editing
> the intranet and adding the reference to the textarea.
>
> This is going to be a challenging portlet. To get the events, you
> have to poke through the layers which then reference the communities.
> Could be a performance issue.
>
> Balazs will be starting a branch for the universal calendar so this
> work can happen there.
>
> (Note that this is for M69 next week.)
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/karl3/+bug/823279/+subscriptions

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

Chris, I had the impression you did a little on this one. If not, and you'd like it off your plate, I can assign it to Carlos.

[Chris Rossi (chris-archimedeanco)]

I haven't. It's fine on mine or Carlos's plate.

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

Nice small thing to get Carlos started again. Ping Chris in #karl to figure out new-style GitHub buildouts.

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

Carlos, were you able to get a buildout going last week?

[Carlos de la Guardia (cguardia)]

Yes, I was. I even added a small explanation about sample content and office creation to the buildout readme file.

I also created the portlet adapter. I have a pull request ready, but I have some questions about that. According to the balsamiq drawing here, the "Universal Calendar" is the one on the navigation bar, right? If that's the case, a query similar to the one in the network-events portlet gets me the list of events and adding '/offices/calendar' to the portlet ids displays it. However, I'm not really sure I understood correctly. Do I have to also add any events for calendars inside all the offices?

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

No, only events directly contained in /offices/calendar.

--Paul

On Sep 5, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Carlos de la Guardia wrote:

> Yes, I was. I even added a small explanation about sample content and
> office creation to the buildout readme file.
>
> I also created the portlet adapter. I have a pull request ready, but I
> have some questions about that. According to the balsamiq drawing here,
> the "Universal Calendar" is the one on the navigation bar, right? If
> that's the case, a query similar to the one in the network-events
> portlet gets me the list of events and adding '/offices/calendar' to the
> portlet ids displays it. However, I'm not really sure I understood
> correctly. Do I have to also add any events for calendars inside all the
> offices?
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/823279
>
> Title:
> Make a calendar portlet available for intranet home pages
>
> Status in KARL3:
> In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> The "universal" calendar needs a portlet in the middle column on the
> intranet home page. That means an adapter which gives a portlet
> layout. After that, it gets injected into the home page by editing
> the intranet and adding the reference to the textarea.
>
> This is going to be a challenging portlet. To get the events, you
> have to poke through the layers which then reference the communities.
> Could be a performance issue.
>
> Balazs will be starting a branch for the universal calendar so this
> work can happen there.
>
> (Note that this is for M69 next week.)
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/karl3/+bug/823279/+subscriptions

[Carlos de la Guardia (cguardia)]

Added the portlet to branch ree-improve-calendar.

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

I don't think Carlos has anything left on this, so marking it as Fix Committed.