friendica-addons/dav/README.md

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Calendar with CalDAV Support

This is a rewrite of the calendar system used by the german social network Animexx. It's still in a very early stage, so expect major bugs. Please feel free to report any of them, by mail (cato@animexx.de) or Friendica: http://friendica.hoessl.eu/profile/cato

At the moment, the calendar system supports the following features:

  • A web-based drag&drop interface for managing events
  • All-Day-Events, Multi-Day-Events, and time-based events
  • Access to the events using CalDAV (using iPhone, Thunderbird Lightning etc., see below)
  • read-only access to the friendica-native events (also using CalDAV)
  • The friendica-contacts are made available using CardDAV (confirmed to work with iOS)
  • Giving the subject, a description, a location and a color for the event (the color is not available through CalDAV, though)

Internationalization:

  • At the moment, settings for the US and the german systems are selectable (regarding the date format and the first day of the week). More will be added on request.
  • The basic design of the system is aware of timezones; however this is not reflected in the UI yet. It currently assumes that the timezone set in the friendica-installation matches the user's local time and matches the local time set in the user's operating system.

CalDAV device compatibility:

  • iOS (iPhone/iPodTouch) works
  • Thunderbird Lightning should work, not tested yet
  • Android: http://dmfs.org/caldav/ seems to work, not much tested yet, though

Installation After activating, serveral tables in the database have to be created. The admin-interface of the plugin will try to do this automatically. In case of errors, the SQL-statement to create the tables manually are shown in the admin-interface.

Functuality missing: (a.k.a. "Roadmap")

  • Recurrence of events (this is only supported using the CalDAV-interface; recurring events saved using CalDAV will appear correctly multiple times in the web-based frontend; hovever those events will be read-only at the web-based frondend)
  • Sharing events; all events are private at the moment, therefore this system is not yet a complete replacement for the friendica-native events
  • Attendees / Collaboration

Used libraries

SabreDAV http://code.google.com/p/sabredav/ New BSD License

wdCalendar http://www.web-delicious.com/jquery-plugins/ GNU Lesser General Public License

jQueryUI http://jqueryui.com/ Dual-licenced: MIT and GPL licenses

iCalCreator http://kigkonsult.se/iCalcreator/ GNU Lesser General Public License

TimePicker http://www.texotela.co.uk/code/jquery/timepicker/ Dual-licenced: MIT and GPL licenses

ColorPicker http://laktek.com/2008/10/27/really-simple-color-picker-in-jquery/ MIT License