Re: [SMW-devel] Recurring Events Calendar Format

2009-04-05 Thread Yaron Koren
] Recurring Events Calendar Format I don't quite understand your initial question: a repeated event can have thousands of repetitions, so it wouldn't be practical to specify them all manually; meanwhile, #ask is just how data is retrieved within SMW. You do point out one weakness in the scheme I'm

Re: [SMW-devel] Recurring Events Calendar Format

2009-04-03 Thread John McClure
Hi Yaron, It's not so much what sf/smw can or can't do -- it's about whether {{#ask:}} is the right approach for repeating event. #ask is presently used to query articles having *any* date-property. So what benefit actually is there to having repeatable events handled by #ask? I can think of just

Re: [SMW-devel] Recurring Events Calendar Format

2009-04-03 Thread John McClure
[mailto:yaro...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 9:54 AM To: John McClure Cc: semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [SMW-devel] Recurring Events Calendar Format I don't quite understand your initial question: a repeated event can have thousands of repetitions, so

Re: [SMW-devel] Recurring Events Calendar Format

2009-03-24 Thread Markus Krötzsch
On Montag, 23. März 2009, David Raison wrote: Hi folks, I've been reading your thread on AnyDateTime and stumbled upon this quote from Markus: For most purposes, we would like to implement an idea of a totally ordered, physical time, i.e. every two input times should be comparable and

[SMW-devel] Recurring Events Calendar Format

2009-03-23 Thread David Raison
Hi folks, I've been reading your thread on AnyDateTime and stumbled upon this quote from Markus: For most purposes, we would like to implement an idea of a totally ordered, physical time, i.e. every two input times should be comparable and correspond to real time points of the world. This

Re: [SMW-devel] Recurring Events Calendar Format

2009-03-23 Thread Yaron Koren
It would be great if calendars could support recurring events. I think technically, it could be pretty easy to implement: you could probably do it with four or five new special properties: Has period unit, Has period number, Has first occurrence and Has last occurrence, and possibly Has exception