Re: Zimbra Public Calendars + University Website

[Steve Hillman <hillman@sfu.ca>]

Just re-posting to the list..

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A live example of embedding an HTML REST URL is http://people.carleton.edu/~ijastram/schedule.htm

We currently do the reverse, too.

We added code to the locally developed (*not* recommended) http://apps.carleton.edu/opensource/reason/ to support iCal export of academic, residential, faculty meeting, and holiday calendars already being maintained in another system.

Then pull that iCal down to a Zimbra resource; share that resource's calendars with the general public; and createMountpoint in everyone's account.

http://www.zimbra.com/forums/administrators/7861-auto-provisioning-calendar-data-shared-calendars.html

Pam asked:

> But how do people know what calendars are published? There's
> no way to browse the GAL to add a public calendar to my list
> of calendars.

Bug 6410 - departmental calendar grouping and Bug 23615 - Group Calendars are vaguely related.

Some of that is going to be site-dependent. You're probably going to end up publishing a web page advertising the available calendars with a "click here to add to Zimbra" that issues the appropriate createMountpoint, assuming 1) you have a web SSO system allowing delegated auth -or- 2) you're comfortable giving the web page Zimbra admin credentials. (2) is unlikely at a larger university.

Carleton has a small enough set of shared calendars that we just pre-create all of them in every account. People are free to delete them if they want.
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