Is the Calendar really useable yet?

[boden]

I just tried the calendar in 3.2 and right away I'm finding:

* All day events that span multiple days only show up on the starting day.
* Changing the end date on an all day event creates a duplicate event.
* Apparently no way to sort events by tag or anything else.  I see the tags thing on the right, but clicking a tag doesn't do anything.
* No recurring events.

Is this feature considered usable?  Perhaps I'm missing something.  What kind of work is it getting… is a feature updating coming soon?

[mikeh]

Sure it is.

The original Share calendar wasn't quite implemented how we really liked, so it was completely refactored for v3.2. However, there are still some bugs, as you've discovered. All the problems you've notes have been raised in JIRA previously, so are scheduled to be fixed. I'm not sure why tagging isn't working for you - it works for me here.

Note however, that the calendar will never be a competitor for something like Google Calendar, Outlook's calendar, etc. There's no commercial sense in us trying to do that. We will be adding features across Share in the future, so you're encouraged to vote for them in JIRA or maybe even contribute them yourself.

Thanks,
Mike

[boden]

Thanks Mike,

I guess by "useable" I meant, "will the average office worker enjoy using it?"  At this point I would have to say no, even though it does function as a calendar.  I look forward to keeping up with the Share components as they continue to evolve.

[mikeh]

If there are any specific areas you (or your users) would like to see improved, please feel free to raise an enhancement request in JIRA.

Thanks,
Mike

[hunter42]

One thing I noticed in share is that I do not seem to be able to delete events in my PERSONAL calendar (aka dashboard). Am I missing something ? I imagine that being part of severale workspaces and having lots of events will get my dashboard calendar very crowded. Do you intend to change that ?

Michael

[mikeh]

Do you intend to change that ?

I've not heard it mentioned internally, no. Please raise a JIRA enhancement to get it on our roadmap.

Thanks,
Mike

[efestione]

Hi,
I am testing share 3.3dev. I have noticed that multiple day events (not marked as "all day event") only show up on the starting day.
Is this the desired behaviour?

In this discussion I would also mention that a future versione of this calendar maybe contain the concept of "participants" at events.
This for various reason:
- I can know who is participating at the next meeting;
- an hypothetical chief would be able to check the status of his employees (free/busy); 

I know you don't want to compete with the leaders in calendar stuff but never say never … 🙂

[mikeh]

Could you please raise the "all day event" as a JIRA bug and the participants idea as an enhancement request?

Thanks,
Mike

[efestione]

Done.

bug: http://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-2229
improvement: http://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-2230

thanks
Ale

[jaredadams]

After searching "recurring calendar" this was the only thread that came up, so I'm bumping.

I'm really looking for a way to do recurring events, like a daily/weekly status call for a project.  Weekly isnt a big deal, but a daily status call could get cumbersome.

There was mention about not competing with other Calendar services out there like Google, and Outlook.  That seems odd to me.  A program like this should be pretty inclusive. I dont want to make a site for a project and then have to keep track of dates/milsteones in a seperate calendar program. 

Simple basic funcationality would be nice. there really only three things we would need, at least in my view.

1. Recurring events
2. Leaders/Hosts of meetings/events
3. Events that span multiple days to show across multiple days.

At the very least are recurring events in the works?