[Kolab-devel] integrate fbview into horde

[Jan Schneider]

See also: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=2127

Zitat von Richard Bos <ml at radoeka.nl>:

> Hi,
>
> the kolab project has since a very long time offered the fbview portal to
> quickly find out which people or free or busy.  Now that kolab is nicely
> integrated into horde (or the other way), it is possible to obtain  
> the freebusy
> information directly from horde.  But..., this is a bit complicated:  
> there are
>  many mouse clicks involved to obtain the view.  On the other hand with a
> patched kronolith menu, the best of both worlds could be obtained.
>
> I discussed this a bit offline with Gunnar, but we want to get the  
> opinion about
> this from the kolab-devel ML.  I'll copy and paste Gunnar's lat email to me
> about this below, so you can have a look at it, and please let us now your
> thoughts about this:
>
> =========  Gunnar - Richard discussion =========
>> I was able to add an fbview entry to the horde/kronolith menu, see attached
>> diff.  The result can be seen in attachment fbview1.  When selecting the
>> link, it opens the attendees web form, but there is not top menu (see
>> fbview2).  Do you know how to create such a top menu?
>> Perhaps with a bit of code from:
>> http://kolab.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs-kolab.cgi/server/patches/fbview/HK-GW-kronolith_2.2_RC1-Fbview_menu.patch?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
>>
>> You wrote that the patch that I referred to above won't make it  
>> upstream, but
>> won't it be possible to do it like this:
>>
>> If ($conf['kolab']['enable'] = yes) {  (***)
>>  require KRONOLITH_TEMPLATES . '/fbview-menu.inc';
>> } else {
>>  require KRONOLITH_TEMPLATES . '/menu.inc';
>> }
>>
>> That way the link will only be visible for kolab installation.
>> ***) Or make the the variable more general:
>> $conf['something']['with']['enable']['freebusy link']
>
> I'd definitely suggest you send this to kolab-devel first. It makes
> more sense to discuss this in that forum.
>
> With the current fbview (1) you have the following situation:
>
>  - You log in
>  - You see the desired view
>
> Using kronolith (2) you get the same with three intermediate clicks:
>
>  - You log in
>  - You select kronolith
>  - You create a new event
>  - You select the attendee view
>  - You see the desired view
>
> With your solution (3) you have:
>
>  - You log in
>  - You select kronolith
>  - You select the attendee view
>  - You see the desired view
>
> It might be possible to add fbview as a reduced kronolith as a
> separate application (4) in the side panel of the horde installation:
>
>  - You log in
>  - You select fbview
>  - You see the desired view
>
> Each solution has its drawbacks:
>
> (1)
>
>   - Duplicate installation of the Horde basis (a lot of code)
>   - Two entirely separate installations
>
> (2)
>
>   - Way too complicated click trail
>
> (3)
>
>   - Long click trail
>
>>> remark from Richard: people might already be logged in (e.g. to read email
>>> browse their agenda): if this is the case, it is even easier to obtain the
>>> FB information.  As there is no need to fill the FB url, and there  
>>> is no need
>>> to login, it is even faster that the current fbview implementation....
>
>
>
> (4)
>
>   - Duplicated kronolith code (rather small)
>
>
> I think I like your suggestion best but this should be discussed by
> more people. I could then discuss it with Jan and Chuck. They usually
> have some useful comments when it comes to the hrode structure. Maybe
> they'd be willing to make the free/busy view more accessible within
> Kronolith.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gunnar
>
>
>> --- tree_menu.php.bak 2007-12-12 09:04:44.000000000 +0100
>> +++ tree_menu.php     2007-12-12 10:45:50.000000000 +0100
>> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
>>              array('week', _("Week"), 'weekview.png',  
>> Horde::applicationUrl('week.php')),
>>              array('month', _("Month"), 'monthview.png',  
>> Horde::applicationUrl('month.php')),
>>              array('year', _("Year"), 'yearview.png',  
>> Horde::applicationUrl('year.php')),
>> +            array('fbview', _("Fbview"), 'attendees.png',  
>> Horde::applicationUrl('attendees.php')),
>>              array('search', _("Search"), 'search.png',  
>> Horde::applicationUrl('search.php'),  
>> $registry->getImageDir('horde')),
>>          );
>
>
> --
> Richard Bos
> Without a home the journey is endless
>
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Jan.

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