[Rxsm-users] XSM calendar suggestion

[Ian S. <ia...@ex...>]

I'm thinking about the uses of a diary/calendar system, so here are my 
(first-cut) thoughts on the calendar and event objects.
I'm basing this fairly largely on the calendar in my phone, with some 
extensions for the web environment.

Individual event objects:
Type of entry:
    event: happens as defined
    anniversary: happens on the same date every year (ie 24th December)

Title: The (short) title of the event,
Description: Long text about the event,
Location: (short) location for the event,
Start time & end time: 24hr clock. When the entry happens,
Start Date: Date of the start time,
End Date: Date of the end time (takes in all the midnights for the 
intermediate dates),
Repeated: [none|daily|weekly|Fortnightly|monthly|yearly]
   Repeat Until: Date (eg: allows you to have 9am to 1pm, for three 
consecutive days),
Reference: URL for details about the event (may be external)
Fixedicatedness: [Tentitive|Proposed|Fixed]

Calendar object:
Displays the defined (defaults to current) month,
Days across the top (admin can define week start day),
"Current day" highlighted (different background colour?),
Date with events is href to page that lists[1] those events
    - title of href is either the title of the single event, or "there 
are N events listed for this day"

So, lets have an example or two (and yes, these are a tad.... focused)

Events:
Event | CCVT | Cross Country Vehicle Trial | Dunbar | 8:30am | 5pm | 
25-Sept-2005 | 25-Sept-2005 | No-Repeat | | 
http://domain.com/path/file.html | Fixed

Event | camping | Camping available for the weekend | Torphichen | 3pm | 
9pm | 7-Sept-2005 | 11-Sept-2005 | No-Repeat | | /path/file2.html | Fixed

Anniversary | Club Birthday | This is the "official" date the club was 
founded | | | | 12-February | | | | 
http://other.domain.net/path/read.html | fixed


[1] The list is configurable, but I'd suggest the default is a table[2]:
     Title | start (time @ date) | end (time @ date) | location | 
(truncated?) description | reference URL

[2] Either a short table for just the day, or a longer table with (some 
number) of events either side, and the href jumps to a named location 
within the list, which is the first event of the day

-- 

  Ian Stuart: Code Gorilla, Perl Laghu, & Land Rover fettler
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