Hi Adrian, thanks first of all the work you are doing here, and excellent addition to the system. However i have the impression that not enough existing functions in ofbiz are re-used and the implementation is not integrated enough. Related to that is how this will work together with the calendar function in workeffort? In that calendar there is no publishpoint.
In the end, the ical calendar downloaded should be the same as the workeffort calendar showed in the screens? Can you please explain what your thoughts are on this? see further my comments inline.... On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 16:06 -0700, Adrian Crum wrote: > I'm almost ready to commit the work I have been doing on the iCalendar > integration. Before I do, I would like some feedback on a particular > function. > > Background: One work effort serves as an iCalendar "publish point" - > it's not a work effort that anyone interacts with, it just contains > settings that tell the iCalendar servlet what to do. In the current > implementation, all public work efforts of all parties assigned to the > publish point will be included in the calendar. The party's assignment > role is ignored. The publish point's scope (public, confidential, > private) is ignored. These are things I would like to change. > > In the new implementation, if the publish point work effort has a public > scope, then anyone can view work efforts that are related to it. If the > scope isn't public, then access to the related work efforts is > restricted to only the parties who are assigned to the publish point. > Oops, now I have a conflict with the previous implementation - where a > party assignment meant to include that party's public work efforts in > the calendar. > > Here's where I need the feedback. I need to use the publish point work > effort to party assignment ROLE to control what the servlet does. A > party related to the publish point in role "A" is a party whose public > work efforts are included in the calendar. A party assigned to the > publish point in role "B" is a party whose access to the calendar is > controlled by the publish point. it looks like that the info at the related workeffort to the publish point should override the info at the publish point. If the publish point is public but the related workefffort is not then that event should not be available. What do you mean here with role "A" and role "B"? I am lost here > > Looking at the current calendar roles, we have Attendee, Delegate, Host, > Organizer, and Owner. The Delegate role might be appropriate for the > party in role "B". I don't know what to do about the party in role "A" - > should I create a new role? Something like "Calendar Participant" or > "Calendar Member"? > > Any feedback would be appreciated! > > -Adrian -- Antwebsystems.com: Quality OFBiz services for competitive rates
