On 10/14/05, Matt Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. How/where do I remove all references to "schoolbell" in the web UI? > It's not particularly appropriate for my case. (And it's just a bad name > to begin with.. limits your potential user base for such a promising > looking app).
I'm not precisely sure about the answer to the first question, although I'd start by grepping the browser directory. The name was chosen so that people would know it was part of the larger SchoolTool project, but it has caused much confusion. At this point, there would probably be no real harm in changing the name of SchoolBell. Any ideas? Note that there are no imminent plans to change the name. > 2. How well does it scale? This isn't going to be big at ~80 users right > now, not going much bigger then that. I don't expect heavy usage from > any of these people either. In the most recent releases, scaling is fine. We can now generate a full year of test data (in the SchoolTool trunk) for over 1000 users and performance holds up nicely. > 3. Are resources not part of the iCalendar specs? I don't see resources > I've booked when I view the calendar through Sunbird... Or this is a > Sunbird thing? I don't think resources are in the iCalendar spec. Locations, however, might be, and I think it might still be a hole in our support. > 4. I REALLY don't like the idea of not using either a standard relational > SQL DB or human readable files to store user info and ZODB instead. I > also don't like the idea of having to use SchoolBell's internal > authentication system instead of what we typically do which is LDAP to > Active Directory for unified logins.. or via a DB if that doesn't work. > Users tend to have the memories of goldfish and it's a administration > hassle to have to change passwords when users can't deal with more then > one of two at a time. Seems likes schools would want this functionality > available too. I've put LDAP on several different contract proposals only to have to cut it for one reason or another. Zope 3 supports LDAP authentication, so it is pretty low hanging fruit for a Zope 3 developer. If nobody else does it, we'll pay for it to be done at some point, but it would be great if an outside developer would contribute it to the project first (hint, hint). > 5. This kind of ties into #4. Is there someway to setup user "templates"? > Adding a new user, adding them to a group, subscribing them to calendars, > and setting up their ACL's seems like a hassle. I was thinking of hacking > something together that used the ZODB export/import scripts to pull data > out of the SchoolBell, modify it as needed (using LDAP,DB's etc via some > php based page), and re-importing. Not the best method and extra work > initially for me, and other ideas? We've got a comprehensive REST web service interface for doing this kind of thing. It is turned off by default and runs on a different port. We've been updating it and making some examples in the SchoolTool trunk. --Tom _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
