[Kolab-devel] Management of Resources, generation of freebusy

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Wednesday 19 May 2004 18:35, Timotheus Pokorra wrote:
> The organisation that I work for would really like to have resource
> management in Kolab.
>
> I saw in
> http://kolab.org/pipermail/kolab-commits/2004q1/000085.html
> this sentence:
> "A server process based on the webclient extracts all information from
> the calendar folder of predefined accounts and aggregates them in
> extended freebusy list on demand. Extended freebusy lists are
> syntactically equivalent to  traditional freebusy list but on one hand
> aggregate the calendar data of multiple accounts and on the other hand
> prepend the subject of the individual entries with the username followed
> with the original subject while honouring the private flag."

That probably is a draft version of the concept.
Please remember that it is draft and subject to change.

> Is someone working on it for Proko2?

Yes, we will work on this.

> Will it also work with the TNEF files from Outlook?

AFAIU no.

> If not, I will continue to work on using
> the Squirrelmail plugin TNEF Attachment Decoder
> (http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=62)
> the ICal writer (http://sourceforge.net/projects/php-flp/)
> and the phpICalendar (http://phpicalendar.sourceforge.net/nuke/)
> to create iCal files from the tnef files.
> If you want, have a look at http://www.pokorra.de/kolab/tnef/

So you are writing an tnef (mapi, OL attributes) -> iCalender translator?
Seems like a good idea, but will be be very problematic in the details.

> Please give me a shout, if someone is already working on it.
> Or if you have any recommendation how to integrate this into Kolab,
> please let me know.
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