Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Calendar: Groups and Categories in a shared calendar

[Alex Borges]

I must say that, even though i didnt find a solution for all this very
same kinds of troubles in my current deployment, i do see a solution in
this category->group mapping.  Id be willing to participate in what you 
are doing...

Alex

El vie, 09-08-2002 a las 14:37, Troy Thompson escribió:
> I'm attempting to modify calendar to customize it for a client. One
> requirement is to filter the categories available to a user based on the
> groups the user belongs to.
> 
> Desired changes I'm trying to implement:
> 1) On the category edit page (admin.uicategories.edit) I plan to add a
> "Groups" selector, so that Categories can be assigned to groups.
> 2) When using the calendar, a user will see only categories their group
> memberships permit.
> 3) Permit users to view events which are in categories they have access to,
> even if they are not specified as a participant.
> 
> Usages and Reasons:
> - Provide a way for people to place their vacations on the calendar;
> everyone should be able to see the Vacations category, but not everyone
> "participates" in everyone else's vacation!
> - Provide a way for the company board to schedule events in a "Board
> Luncheon" category, and only the members of the Board can see events in that
> category.
> - Permit all members of the "Executive Staff" group to see every category's
> events, with requiring they are "participants" in every event.
> - Add announcements and events to a shared company calendar without making
> everyone a participant nor scheduling a "meeting".
> 
> I tried to shortcut this by making a category "owned" by a group
> (hand-hacked a database entry) but the category just disappears.
> 
> Questions:
> - Is there another application that does this already?
> - Is the current calendar app more of a "scheduler" than a "calendar"? I'm
> looking for a shared group calendar where categories can be protected by
> group ACLs.
> - Is there documentation anywhere on the ACL methodology? I suspect I'll
> just be adding phpgw_categories.cat_groups for data, but the back-end seems
> rather expansive in this issue.
> 
> Development Platform:
> PHPGW v0.9.14.000 RC4
> Apache 1.3.26
> PHP 4.2.2
> Windows 2000 SP3
> MySQL 3.23.39-nt.
> 
> 
> Troy Thompson
> Sonova Systems, LLC
> 770-822-9788
> address@hidden
> 
> 
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