I'm looking for the ability for end users to add their own. I know that there isn't a silver bullet, but I figured since the big names such as iCal and Outlook support their own internally managed x-prop extensions there would be addons for end user defined extensions. Have you ever seen anything like that? I've been Googling and missing...
thanks Eli On Oct 15, 5:21 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Are you looking for specific extended properties, or the ability for > end users to add their own extended fields, then search and display > them? > -John > On 10/15/08, Eli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi John, > > > Thanks for the response. > > > I wish it were that simple. I work for a large public university in > > California with many many disparate calendar applications of varying > > technologies. If you can think it up then I guarantee we're using it > > somewhere on this campus. So, I'm not building an end-to-end > > solution. It's frustrating because the protocol supports extended > > properties and Google supports storing and querying extended > > properties. But I'm yet to find any applications that puts the > > extensibility into the hands of the end user. I'm hoping that someone > > knows of addons or utilities that supplement the most common calendar > > management applications? > > > Eli > > > On Oct 14, 4:07 pm, "John Lockwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I believe the extended data is only accessible through the api. You have > >> to > >> build your own UI to it. > >> I have AJAX web page that brings up a date range of calendar events and > >> allows entering/updating of the extended data fields that I require. I > >> leave > >> the rest of the event creation/management to google's calendar app so I > >> don't have to recreate it's functionality just to a few fields. > > >> -John > > >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Eli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > I like that Google has thought about extended data modeling here. It > >> > really goes beyond what I expected to find. > > >> > However, now we're in the precarious position of having the data > >> > storage capability but missing the UI features. > > >> > Anyone know which calendar applications (web and desktop) support > >> > extended properties? Google doesn't... Are there plug-ins available > >> > to extend Outlook, iCal, etc? > > >> > I'm thinking my best option here is to create a template for the > >> > description field and post-process the extended properties out of > >> > that. But this requires heavy non-standards publisher cooperation. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Calendar Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-calendar-help-dataapi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
