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 date", to handle dates on which the event doesn't happen but
should, or the other way around.
The first two properties would handle the frequency, so a weekly event would
have values "[[Has period unit::week]]" and "[[Has period number::1]]".
The big issue is whether such properties should be defined by the 'Calendar'
format in Semantic Result Formats, or whether they should be defined by
Semantic MediaWiki itself, and thus supported by all of SMW's date-handling
tools.
(After that, the big issue is who will implement this feature. :) I probably
could, if I have time for it.)
-Yaron
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:11 PM, David Raison <da...@hackerspace.lu> 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 correspond to real time points of the
> world. This excludes inputs like "May 1" which would describe an infinite
> number of recurring intervals that we are not prepared to handle.
>
> I was actually reading through the list because I'm quite interested in
> a result format that could present recurring events on a weekly or
> monthly basis.
>
> When you say, you're not prepared to handle that, what are the issues
> involved? Are there no efforts being put into a recurring events feature?
> I don't know whether I can find the time to work on it, but if you
> could give me a few hints as to the problems, I might give it a try.
>
> The background is that we're currently using semediawiki to handle our
> events calendar (https://www.hackerspace.lu/wiki/Calendar and
> https://www.hackerspace.lu/wiki/Main_Page)
> Trouble is with recurring (weekly or monthly) classes or workshops. It'd
> be very convenient to have such a feature.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
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