plone.app.event 1.0a1

Event content type for plone

plone.app.event

Plone.app.event is the calendaring implementation for Plone. It provides Event Content Types (Archetypes based as well as Dexterity Behaviors), Timezone support, RFC5545 icalendar export, Recurrence support and a lot more.

The ATContentType and dexterity features are automatically enabled depending on installed packages.

Installation for Plone 4.1

To install plone.app.event for Plone 4.1, please use the plone.app.event-ploneintegration package from pypi. Include it in your buildout config or in your integration package’s setup.py and apply the “plone.app.event Plone4 integration” profile. The plone.app.event-ploneintegration package pulls all dependencies, which are needed for plone.app.event.

Warning

!!! Backup! Don’t do this on a Plone setups in production, only install plone.app.event for new setups or report any upgrade issues. Upgrading is yet not tested and no upgrade steps are provided - this is still a task to do. Expect weired behavior regarding date/time/timezones and any other bugs. !!!

What to do

Add some events. Add some with recurrence - but limit the occurences or write bug reports. Add some in different timezones and write bug reports. Add the calendar portlet - shows published events. Write bug reports.

Go to the event controlpanel and try different settings. Download events as ical. Install dexterity, apply the plone.app.event dexterity profile and start using the provided behaviors.

If possible, write fix code and write tests.

Please note, allowing pull requests needs that she/he must have signed the contributor agreement.

Known issues

• Incomplete tests.

• There is may be one Unicode/Encoding issue with non-ascii chars when exporting to iCal.

• Allowing unlimited occurences for recurring events break at 30000 iterations and take a long time. Solution: not allowing unlimited occurences, breaking earlier.

Bug reporting

Please report bugs here: https://github.com/collective/plone.app.event

This url may change to https://github.com/plone/plone.app.event some time soon!

Installation from the sources

R/W checkout from github: $ git clone [e-mail]:collective/plone.app.event.github

R/O checkouts: $ git clone git://github.com/collective/plone.app.event.git

If you want to install plone.app.event from the sources for development, run the provided buildout files - and read the sources.

$ python bootstrap.cfg -d

For Plone 4.1 and standard ATContentTypes $ ./bin/buildout -c alpha.cfg

Or do a Normal build $ ./bin/buildout -c buildout.cfg

Or do a development build with R/W checkouts $ ./bin/buildout -c dev.cfg

There is also a dexterity.cfg buildout configuration, which can be used to extend another buildout and install the Dexterity flavor of plone.app.event.

Start $ ./bin/instance fg

After fireing up the Zope instance, visit the ZMI and create a Plone site. The plone.app.event’s Archetypes profile would automatically be installed due to the Products.CMFPlone branch, but please import plone.app.event’s dexterity profile also. This way, the dexterity behaviors are registered and an example Dexterity event type is installed.

Changelog

1.0a1 (2012-03-12)

• Initial alpha release. [thet]