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Our web folks are asking us to have a form built for our publicly
shared calendar. Is this easily achieved? Can anyone point me in a
direction where I can get more information. Their specifications are
below.
Outlook has built in calendar and export sharing capabilities. We need
someone to write/setup the needed Outlook forms, etc to get our shared
public calendar events exported into an exchangeable file format such
as XML or iCalendar (preferred).
The main form that needs to be built is basically a customized
Appointment form that adds additional fields to the record related to
our business. These fields include bio information, client names and
links, reference number, etc.
Technical hurdles:
- The scheduling setup uses multi-character codes to denote event
status and location. These need to be parsed into additional data
fields. It may be possible to replace these codes with menus on the
custom form.
- The schedule can have multiple event on a single day, or potentially
overlapping evemts at different locations. There needs to be a way for
users to indicate which group of appointments constitute a event.
- The data needs to exported in one of two ways:
1. New versions of Outlook also provide the ability to publish
calendars to a WebDAV server. One option for this project is to setup
Outlook to publish its calendars to a WebDAV server, and have the
website continually check for changes to this published file and
update itself.
2. The data can be exported from Outlook as a file, and then
loaded
into the website using an upload form in the admin interface.
shared calendar. Is this easily achieved? Can anyone point me in a
direction where I can get more information. Their specifications are
below.
Outlook has built in calendar and export sharing capabilities. We need
someone to write/setup the needed Outlook forms, etc to get our shared
public calendar events exported into an exchangeable file format such
as XML or iCalendar (preferred).
The main form that needs to be built is basically a customized
Appointment form that adds additional fields to the record related to
our business. These fields include bio information, client names and
links, reference number, etc.
Technical hurdles:
- The scheduling setup uses multi-character codes to denote event
status and location. These need to be parsed into additional data
fields. It may be possible to replace these codes with menus on the
custom form.
- The schedule can have multiple event on a single day, or potentially
overlapping evemts at different locations. There needs to be a way for
users to indicate which group of appointments constitute a event.
- The data needs to exported in one of two ways:
1. New versions of Outlook also provide the ability to publish
calendars to a WebDAV server. One option for this project is to setup
Outlook to publish its calendars to a WebDAV server, and have the
website continually check for changes to this published file and
update itself.
2. The data can be exported from Outlook as a file, and then
loaded
into the website using an upload form in the admin interface.