[dev] Resource booking extension for Kronolith

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> writes:

> Zitat von Stephane Pointu <stephane.pointu at purplelabs.com>:
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>> Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
>>> Hi Stephane,
>>>
>>> Stephane Pointu <stephane.pointu at purplelabs.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> My company is asking me to provide an extension to Kronolith for booking
>>>> resources such as meeting rooms, laptops, etc...
>>>>
>>>> Having Kronolith architecture in mind do you have any ideas about how we
>>>> should do this. Right now we are writing the specs for it so all ideas
>>>> are welcome.
>>>
>>> I am not certain about the requirements you have for such a system but
>>> to me it sounds like this is already available if you run Horde
>>> together with a Kolab server (http://www.kolab.org). The Kolab server
>>> provides the necessary architecture for ressource management based on
>>> well established standards (iCal etc.). The Horde integration is still
>>> being improved but already useable.
>
> Resource support in the backend doesn't help much if there is no
> support in the frontend.

That is certainly true but what exactly is kronolith missing at the
moment in order to support ressources?

>> We already have all our architecture based on OpenLDAP, Postfix,... and
>> Horde. So not to change everything, including the habits of our users,
>> we would prefer to develop an extension to Horde.
>>
>> I'll check how Kolab does this. Thanks for the tip.
>
> Please see http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=2059.

This is a limitation that only exists for the Horde::Share::DataTree
driver. The current Horde::Share::Kolab driver supports global shares
since it is based on IMAP folders and you can create a shared folder
on the server that will be accessible to all users (or user groups)
within Kronolith. 

Cheers,

Gunnar

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