Re: injecting holidays into calendars

[Rob Thompson <rob@wayne.edu>]

We do something similar for class schedules and the University's Academic Calendar, but inject the events directly into pre-named calendars in the students account, so that they "own" the data.  This process queries the student's schedule in our student system (SCT Banner), then the process produces an iCal from that data.  It then imports the generated .ics files via REST (POST).  There are daily delta syncs that happen and a once-weekly complete reload of every calendar.

The Registrar maintains the master academic calendar, which is read and replicated into the individual accounts.

-Rob 

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----- "Kurt Chirhart" <kurt.chirhart@oit.gatech.edu> wrote:

> Matt,  
> 
>    My friend Scott in the registrar's office has been doing this for
> over a year now with the official school calendar.
> 
> http://registrar.gatech.edu/home/calendar.php
> 
>    Click "Official School Calendar" then click the "Buzz icon with the
> plus".  He then prompts for the account name and then sends an email
> to the accont.
> 
> 
>    He has an "ICS Feed" and a Zimbra specific "Add Calendar to
> MyGaTech" option.   He might be able to give you some pointers how he
> implemented the latter.
> 
> --Kurtus
> 
> 
> Matt Miller wrote:
> > We've thought about putting university holidays into everyone's
> > calendar. General feedback seems that the idea is supported by users
> as
> > well.
> > 
> > I haven't found any way to do this... I'm thinking it might be
> easier to
> > create a shared university holiday calendar and post directions to
> > subscribe to it.
> > 
> > Has anyone else done something similar? How do you handle holiday
> > calendars?
> > 
> > Thanks,