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

[Charles Kaucher]

I can't be of assistance.  You need design changes not patches or 
perhaps you need to decide just how you want to implement categories in 
a multiple calendar environment. I was hoping you might understand that.

Kronlith is a great program. Storing categories by owner worked OK when 
it was a single calendar(less than a year ago!) but not in a multiple 
calendar environment.

CGK


Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> Quoting Charles Kaucher <kaucher at cgki.com>:
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>>1. Categories need to display properly.  They do not.  See the above
>>reference.
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> Patch?
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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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> Patch?
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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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> Patch?
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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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> Patch?
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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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> Patch?
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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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> Patch?
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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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> Patch?
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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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> Patch?
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> -chuck
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> --
> Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck at horde.org>
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