[CONFIRMED] iCal support

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Matt Revelle

01 Jun, 2007 02:37 PM

How about adding support for the publishing of all milestones (or other dated items) to separate iCal files for each project?

This would allow Apple iCal, Google Calendar, and Mozilla users to get a calendar view of their data.

  1. 1 Posted by Matt Revelle on 04 Jun, 2007 02:50 AM

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    After flipping through the Lighthouse API, it looks like access to project milestones is missing? If that was in place then us users could easily roll our own iCal export capability.

    The benefits of a product that is extensible and targeted at developers... =)

  2. 2 Posted by Rick on 04 Jun, 2007 08:45 AM

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    It's implemented and almost fully documented I think. There are some issues w/ the API basics (logins, for instance) that I want to get nailed first.

    If you'd like to take a stab at iCal support, go ahead. I've personally never dealt with it from a development standpoint. I can see where iCal support would be beneficial though.

  3. 3 Posted by Matt Revelle on 04 Jun, 2007 03:02 PM

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    Cool, are the docs describing the access for milestones publically available yet?

    iCal support is really easy, you just have one file that contains an event for each milestone.
    In iCal, a milestone would look something like this:

    BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20070710 DTEND:20070710 SUMMARY:Release Version 1.0 COMMENT:This release will contain features: X, Y, and Z. CATEGORIES:SomeProject,MILESTONE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT

    The milestone calendar for a single project could be published at a single URL. Of course other events, such as completed tickets, may also be desirable to have in a calendar view. What do you guys think about providing simple calendar publishing for projects?

  4. 4 Posted by Rick on 04 Jun, 2007 05:03 PM

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    Yea, that's easy enough. Seems there are enough rails projects using iCal, so I'm surprised there's not something out there to make this braindead easy.

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