Getting Dates with Plone - Plone Conference 2008

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Getting Dates withPlone

Aaron VanDerlip, Jazkarta.com2008 Plone Conference

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But what this is really about

Plone4ArtistsCalendarmostly

But there is a lot under the hood (or bonnet)

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BackgroundFirst there was Plone4Artists Calendar

it was a bit of monolith

Lennart Regebro == Hero

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Overview

• dateable.chronos

• dateable.kalends

• p4a.subtyper

• p4a.plonecalendar

• p4a.event

Plone Eventsand Folders

p4a.plonecalendarExtends Plone with

the Kalends functionality

dateable.chronosThe user interface

dateable.kalendsDefines interfaces and functionality

p4a.ploneeventExtends the standardEvent with recurrence

Icalendar supportNot implemented yet

Mix-ins hard to work with

Separate concerns, common interface

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dateable.chronos

• Provides calendar views

• Calls event providers to

• Reusable outside Plone4Artists

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p4a.plonecalendar

• Registers Folder and Topic types to implement IPossibleCalenedar

• Provides hooks forimport/export of iCal feeds

• Implements the necessary kalends interface for events providers

Rocky Burt == Hero

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p4a.subtyper

• Its slick

• Provides hooks to register type into the UI and the back end

• In a nutshell, a way to provide marker interfaces

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p4a.event• Implements

dateable.kalends.IRecurringEvent

• Wraps the object using factory

• uses schemaextender to add Recurrence support to the Event type

Recurrence is cool

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Let’s demo the tools

• Markup some types

• Import some external data

• Build a small app

Getting the date

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To do

• improve iCal import/export

• microformats (coming real soon)

• test to be sure the above work

• UI

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Further reading

• http://www.serverzen.com/training/subtyping-unleashed

• http://regebro.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/whats-up-with-dateable/

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Thanks!aaron (at) jazkarta.com

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