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In general, there are two common ways to group calendars: By organizational structure (example: School of Engineering folder with Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering as members) and by function (example: Lectures, Seminars, and Conferences folder with Lectures, Seminars, and Conferences as members). Many organizations use both kinds of groupings. The advantage to the "both ways" approach is that events can be routinely tagged twice: one tag to indicate who the event is associated with and one to indicate what kind of event it is. Users (and web sites than consume events) can then easily filter events by who or by what kind.
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- Calendar suite: a web application with its own context, theme, subscriptions, and views. Calendar suites are attached to Bedework's group hierarchy, and event administrators work within the context of the calendar suite under which their group is placed. Calendar suites control how events are tagged and filtered.
- Calendar collection (Calendar): a container for events (or other calendaring items such as tasks and journal entries). When we use the term "Calendar" we mean calendar collection.
- Folder: a container for calendar collections (only)
- Category: an iCalendar (RFC-2445) property used to tag events. Categories are maintained by superusers and calendar suite owners
- Subscription: an alias to a calendar collection. Subscriptions may point to calendar collections, to other subscriptions in Bedework, or to external icalendar feeds. Subscriptions provide structure to Bedework's global calendar tree and to calendar suites. Likewise, they provide a structure and hierarchy for tagging events by category.
- Topical Area: a topical area is a subscription that will appear in a calendar suite's add/edit event form and provides fine-grained control over how events are tagged.
- Filter: an expression used to match events from the global pool. Bedework makes particular use of category filtering in public events calendaring
- Event administrator: a user who is a member of a public events administrative group. Event administrators can add and edit events using the administrative web client.
- Calendar suite owner: a user who is a member of public events administrative group to which a calendar suite is attached. Calendar suite owners can modify calendar suite preferences, subscriptions, and views. Calendar suite owners, like superusers, can also add and edit categories.
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