[nag] feature request - possible consulting job

[Erling Preben Hansen]

  Citat af Sebastian Birnbach <birnbacs at gmail.com>:

> Michael,
>
> for the moment suppoort of accepted/declined would answer our most urgent
> needs. Not believing my luck after reading your mail I looked again but
> no,
> I could't find a corresponding checkbox in Nag. I also looked in the
> backend database for a corresponding field but could not find one. Is it
> possible that any extra modules must be installed on top of Nag?
>
> The assignee will be "internal" in that he/she is ar regular Horde user,
> the setting you proposed may not be required. Having said that, I was not
> able to  "configure Nag to allow external assignees via the
configuration
> screen". I looked in the Administrator settings unter HTTP interface.
> Could
> you please be a little more specific where to find the setting?
>
> As for the consulting: having been IT consultant for some time myself I
am
> trying to avoid a hen-and-egg-problem. As soon as I know exactly what I
> want I shall get back to Horde LLC. I will probably need a few small bits
> at first and may have a larger project later on. BTW: the time horizon
> is a
> few weeks for supporting accepted/declined in Horde and until fall for
> Thunderbird/Lightning support.
>
> Sebastian
>
> 2015-07-13 16:56 GMT+02:00 Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>
>> Quoting Sebastian Birnbach <birnbacs at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>> we are using Nag for organising work in a smaller company. We have
>>> remote
>>> workers who carry out specific jobs, e.g. typing a dictate or
>>> producing a
>>> CAD illustration from a sketch. To provide better
>>> automatisation/integration we need at least one additional feature in
>>> Horde/Nag. We realise that a feature request to the dev team would
>>> probably
>>> not meet our time requirements, so a paid consulting job may be
>>> acceptable.
>>>
>>> Here is what we have in mind:
>>>
>>> * support of participation status for tasks (see
>>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545#section-3.2.12)
>>> * complete with UI components for status display/manipulation in Nag's
>>> HTML
>>> interface
>>> * access to task status via Nag API
>>> * E-Mail notifications on status changes:
>>>   new task in shared to-do list (mail to delegatee)
>>>   optional: task accepted (mail to delegator)
>>>   optional: task declined (mail to delegator)
>>>   optional: task completed (mail to delegator)
>>> * ideally compatible with Mozilla Thunderbird / Lightning (iCal or
>>> CalDAV
>>> connection)
>>>
>>> There may be more consulting jobs required *later*. For instance we are
>>> looking for a way to include task deliverables when closing a task
>>> (delegatee attaches the results of his work to the task and marks the
>>> task
>>> as completed).
>>>
>>> I am looking forward to hearing from you if you're interested in taking
>>> the
>>> job. Please share your ideas on how much effort implementation is
likely
>>> to
>>> be, measured in consulting time and/or in price.
>>>
>>> Also, if there is anybody else who needs such functionality and is
>>> willing
>>> to contribute to funding the implementation, please let me know.
>>
>> There was actually already some work towards this done in Git master
>> while
>> integrating ActiveSync and supporting the responses that
Outlook/Exchange
>> sends in TNEF files. The UI doesn't currently include much more than the
>> completed/not-completed toggle and the accepted/denied status of the
>> assignee, but there is already API support for updating attendees'
>> PARTSTAT
>> from incoming iTip responses, ability to generate iTips on task
>> updates/status changes and IMP's iTIP viewer was extended to display and
>> handle the Task iTips (including sending the accepted/denied response).
>> In
>> order to enable it, you must configure Nag to allow external assignees
>> via
>> the configuration screen.
>>
>> As far as the rest of it goes, you don't mention your time frame. You
are
>> correct though, in that the dev team (most of which also consult through
>> Horde LLC) is quite time-strapped at the moment. However, if you would
>> like
>> to discuss more specifics off-list, you can email additional
>> comments/info
>> to info at horde.org - which goes directly to our consulting business'
>> ticketing system.
>>
>> --
>> mike
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Hey

Perhaps i am interfering in something. But anyway.......

This does sound as a job for Whups.
But i don't know about the Thunderbird/lightning support.

/erling