Expiration for events in a resource account

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de>:

> Andreas Gungl <Andreas.Gungl at osp-dd.de> writes:
>
>> Am Wednesday 18 April 2007 schrieb Gunnar Wrobel:
>>> Andreas Gungl <Andreas.Gungl at osp-dd.de> writes:
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > I'm not sure if it has been discussed or if there is a feature like
>>> > this already implemented:
>>> > I'm looking for a way to remove old events in a resource account. We
>>> > book our meeting rooms very frequently (3-6 events per work day) which
>>> > leads quickly to a high number of events in the calendar folder of the
>>> > resource account.
>>> >
>>> > If there was a way to detect and remove events whose end date
>>> > (recurrences taken into consideration) is e.g. more than 60 days before
>>> > the current date, that could reduce the load a lot.
>>> > AFAIK the server needs to process the events to create the free-busy
>>> > lists. We have also shared the calendar folders of our resource
>>> > accounts (read-only) so that we can see the details of the events in a
>>> > local Kontact. It's just that dealing with some hundreds of events
>>> > isn't really quick.
>>> >
>>> > TIA for any feedback about this.
>>>
>>> Hi Andreas,
>>>
>>> I am not aware that any client provides that feature at the moment.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Gunnar
>>
>> Thanks for your feedback, Gunnar. I'm aware that no client supports this.
>> Actually I have expected somebody of the server crew to step up and say
>> a) it exists
>> b) it's planned
>> c) it's considered to be a useless feature and will never be implemented
>
> I definitely would not subscribe to c). I think it would be a useful
> feature. Concerning b) I can only answer for the Horde web client: Not
> planned at the moment.

This is not quite true. The proposal for resource management that has  
just been made on the Kronolith mailing list featured some cleanup of  
old events in resources. But that's still in a planning phase, so d)  
no anytime soon.

Jan.

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