OpenACS Calendar

The OpenACS calendar package is a web-based calendar package. In its current form it provides a UI for storing events that have a time or that last a day, and it offers a list view, a day, week, and month view.

The Data Model

Permissions

Calendar uses a lot of custom permissions. Most of them are unused and will be removed eventually. It will then use a Unix-like set of read, write, create, admin permissions.

Calendars

A calendar has a name and an owner and belongs to a package, it also is an acs_object. This goes into the table calendars. A calendar is created via the usual constructor - a "new" function" - and destroyed via the usual destructor - a "delete" function.

The calendar package currently uses its own little category system: calendar item types can be created per package, they are stored in the table cal_item_types

The table cal_party_prefs allows storing customization information per calendar and per user. It is completely unused and I couldn't find any traces of it ever having been used. A similar table will be used in a future version of calendar to store user options though.

References

References to this Page: en:list_packages, en:object_type_cal_item, en:list_tables_calendar Categories: Packages (Contents)