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

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Charles Kaucher <kaucher at cgki.com>:

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

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> 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.

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

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

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> 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.

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> 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.

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

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> 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.

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-chuck

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