[turba] Automatic free/busy urls for kronolith in generated "group" adressbooks

[Michael J. Rubinsky]

Quoting Johannes Boy <johannesboy at web.de>:

> Michael J. Rubinsky schrieb:
>> Quoting Johannes Boy <johannesboy at web.de>:
> [...]
>> Still not really sure what the problem is.... I assume you are  
>> aware that each contact entry a turba address book can contain a  
>> fburl for that specific user. Maybe a use case would make your  
>> needs more clear.
>>
>>
> Hm alright, let me be a bit more specific.
> I have about a dozen or so people working on a project, some in the  
> office, some at home, some whereever... and more people are inbound  
> or about to leave, given the temporary nature of their engagement.
> Sometimes they have to schedule meetings with 2 or 3 people,  
> sometimes with a couple of others, sometimes all of them together.
> Their current idea of an online calender is one single account  
> somewhere, everyone has the account data and meetings are color-  
> coded depending on who has to attend xD
>
> Using kronolith, I hoped to turn that into the following situation:
> Everyone has access to kronolith (and other services on that server)  
> and can schedule meetings with everyone else, with the system giving  
> a general idea of whether everyone has time or not.
> However, not everyone is a PC guru or can walk a couple of doors  
> further to ask if they have time on any given date or what their  
> free/ busy URL is. Some arent even exactly sure what an URL is, so  
> I'd like to keep things as simple as possible:
> When entering a meeting, they should be presented with a list of  
> everyone who might be interessted, so all they have to do is point  
> and click. The adress books provide just that: Create a new group  
> for a smaller sub- project, add the users and everyone can see who  
> is working on it without having to jump through hoops or remember  
> who was working on the same project anyway.
>
> Sure, keeping a couple of shared adress- books and adding/deleting  
> users manually as they come and go (or create new adress books for  
> sub- projects, copy some contacts,change them manually if anything  
> changes, etc) is a possibility, but the groups and  
> create-adress-books-from-groups stuff would achieve the same,  
> without anyone having to go though a whole checklist of things to do  
> when adding/removin users.
> Additionally, the actual admins are not guaranteed to be experts,  
> but they are bound to change on a regular basis, so I wrote a script  
> that adds/ removes users to/from all services on that server: VPN,  
> samba shares, horde etc. In theory, one click should be enough to  
> add/remove users.
>
> Err...to sum up: I need to create an undefined and changing amount  
> of lists of users with free/ busy information.
> Those lists should be available when scheduling a meeting or w/e.
> All users use horde.
> The current admin should have to do as little as possible and know  
> as little as possible about the system when changing users.
> So I need to add an automatically generated free/ busy url,  
> providing an automatically generated timetable, to those  
> automatically generated lists.
> All of that is already there (I hope?), except that I need to know  
> the place inside the turba code to add a line of code.


Ah. You know, I think I totally missed the fact that you are using the  
turba groups driver and not a contact group inside a address book -  
this clears up your need perfectly.  I'm pretty sure I have a solution  
for you, just going to test it, and will get back to the list.


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Thanks,
mike

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