topic Re: Share Calendar Events saved through Alfresco Browser in Alfresco Archive

Share Calendar Events saved through Alfresco Browser

iseyfi — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:21:01 GMT

I realized creating a calendar event creates an ICS file (node) in alfresco repository that is type of ia:calendarEvent. When I saw this I thought it would be possible to drop ICS files directly into Alfresco Browser so that they'd show in the calendar given their node type is changed to ia:calendar

Re: Share Calendar Events saved through Alfresco Browser

iseyfi — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:18:57 GMT

Anyone has any ideas how to achieve this?

Re: Share Calendar Events saved through Alfresco Browser

drake — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:58:21 GMT

Hi, I'm pretty new to Alfresco, but I'm having success creating events in Share by POSTing a JSON request to this webscript:
http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/calendar/create

The JSON looks something like this:


{
  "site":"siteName",
  "from":"Month DD, YYYY",
  "start":"HH:MM",
  "to":"Month DD, YYYY",
  "end":"HH:MM",
  "what":"Event Name",
  "where":"Location",
  "desc":"Description",
  "tags":"space separated list"
}
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I realize it's not exactly what you asked for, but this is the easiest way I found to get events into Alfresco from the outside. The way Alfresco handles the event nodes and ICS files looks like Voodoo to me - zero byte ICS files?

Re: Share Calendar Events saved through Alfresco Browser

iseyfi — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:39:31 GMT

Thanks for the reply. I will keep this in mind. There actually is an issue open in JIRA with regards to the 0 byte ICS file. You should be able to download that file directly from browser but you cannot at the moment. I think my problem may be related to it.