[kronolith] Re: Categories. Shared or not to share?

[Charles Kaucher]

Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> Quoting Charles Kaucher <kaucher at cgki.com>:
> 
>>I don't think that was intended.  I think was intended that each user
>>should be able to make there own categories and assign their own colors.
> 
> Categories are controlled by the owner of the share.
> 
> -chuck

Chuck,

Yes and then some.

Once any owner for any calendar makes several categories it prevents 
others from assigning/displaying colors to their categories and display 
them. The colors and categories seem to be stored by user in the tables 
but are not being displayed. See this explanation as well
<http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=kronolith&m=103904111603915&w=4>
<http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=kronolith&m=103903612330533&w=2> and 
added at the end of this message.

I see these things need to happen.

1. Categories need to display properly.  They do not.  See the above 
reference.

2. Users need to be able to display assigned colors for the categories 
they create under options. They cannot once ANY one user has already 
created several categories.

3. If a user does not have permission to add events the button/option to 
any calendar(as in guest) should not even appear.

4. If a person does not have permission to edit a calendar it should not 
appear in the add event list of calendars.

5. If a user other than the owner who has permissions to add events must 
see the categories of the owner of the calendar selected and not his own 
when on the add event page. That means a person must choose a calendar 
when adding an event BEFORE selecting a category.

I am new to horde and I am not familiar with the code enough to spot the 
places just where to fix this.  Maybe in a few weeks. (I am still trying 
to figure out how to get events to display in the right order within the 
day in the month view.(It needs to sort events by day and by time 
somewhere before displaying.)

Greater issue concerning kronolith shares.

Categories need to be assigned by calendar and not by user/owner. 
Categories refer to calendars directly and not to users. The permission 
to edit categories is what should be assigned by user or group. If you 
make this conceptual change now (assigning categories by calendar and 
not user), you will make life easier for permissioning and the add 
events scheme.

In short, if they are shared calendars then there are shared categories 
that need to be permissioned as well.

Note: You should also consider implementing calendar groups where 
several calendars can be grouped and assigned together to users. Also 
categories could be assigned to calendar groups. Calendar groups must 
then also be owned by a user.


CGK

ist:     kronolith
Subject:  [kronolith] bur in category colors?
From:     Kurt Van Schaeybroeck <kurt.vs () media-art ! be>
Date:     2002-12-04 21:08:29
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I think I found a small bug in the options > category management > colors.
When I initially view them , they're all white .
I can use the colorpicker, but the values remain #ffffff.
But when I look into the db in the table kronolith_prefs,
the values are changed !
Still, even after refresh or login again, those new values are
not applied when creating an evnet, and they are not showed
either in the cat. mgt.

Anybody know what can be wrong here?


Kurt


List:     kronolith
Subject:  [kronolith] bug in categories
From:     Kurt Van Schaeybroeck <kurt.vs () media-art ! be>
Date:     2002-12-04 22:31:11
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I found what's going wrong, but this still needs
to be solved.

Imagine : admin with 6 categories :
0 Personal 1 First 2 Second 3 Third
4 Business 5 Pleasure 6 Personal

an other user who uses a shared cal of the admin,
has only 3 categories :
0 Business 1 Pleasure 2 Personal

When the admin sets an event with cat. Business,
the database gets "4".

When the user views the events, it's seems that kronolith
takes the value of the db "4" and tries to link it
to the array of event_colors from the user.
But, Business isn't index 4 there, so the wrong color
is displayed!

Hopefully this can get some people started in the right way.

Kurt