#246: View for rendering events as an iCalendar file
- Contents
Make it possible to subscribe to Plone events in the standard iCalendar format.
- Proposed by
- Andi Zeidler
- Seconded by
- Alexander Limi
- Proposal type
- Architecture
- Assigned to release
- Repository branch
- plip246-ical-feed
- State
- completed
Motivation
At the moment, Plone doesn't offer any way to subscribe to events. Currently, you can only make a copy of a single event in your calendar.
Classic examples are the plone.org events and training calendars. We'd like to be able to add these to iCal, Google Calendar, Outlook, Sunbird and other applications that support the iCalendar standard. Right now we are offering up these in RSS format, but they make much more sense as a calendar you can subscribe to (and activate/deactivate in your calendaring application).
Proposal
We propose creating a view that will pick up any event in a given folder (and its subfolders), and render these in the iCalendar format. This view is added to ATContentTypes.
Progress log
Currently implemented with tests on the aforementioned branch. A review bundle is provided at http://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/review/plip246-ical-feed/
Participants
Andreas Zeidler