friendica-addons/dav

Calendar with CalDAV Support

THIS ADDON IS UNSUPPORTED

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
• Giving the subject, a description, a location and a color for the event (the color is not available through CalDAV, though)
• Recurrences (not the whole set of options given in the iCalendar spec, but the most important ones)
• Notification by e-mail. Multiple notifications can be set per event
• Multiple calendars per user
• 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)
• The events of a calendar can be exported as ICS file. ICS files can be imported into a calendar

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 works
• Android:
  • aCal (http://andrew.mcmillan.net.nz/projects/aCal) works, available in F-Droid and Google Play
  • CalDAV-Sync (http://dmfs.org/caldav/) works, non-free

Installation

After activating, serveral tables in the database have to be created. The admin-interface of the addon 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")

• Sharing events; all events are private at the moment, therefore this system is not 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

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

Author of this addon (the parts that are not part of the libraries above): Tobias Hößl http://friendica.hoessl.eu/profile/cato http://www.hoessl.eu/ tobias@hoessl.eu @TobiasHoessl

Originally developed for: Animexx e.V. / http://www.animexx.de/