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Rearrange Calendar Selection

This feature request is a part of the Calendar Revision II.

still in progress

1 Initial Problem

In courses and groups, the calendar is activated by default. As a result, the personal calendar (Personal Desktop > Calendar) can contain course and group calendars that do not contain appointments.

The problem here is the lack of clarity in the "Calendar Selection" list:

• You have a large list of calendars, but they are not really in use (no appointments, last appointment in the past, f.e. past courses).
• Calendars that are in use (i. e. containing current or future appointments) disappear in such a long list and are hard to find.

The problem will be exacerbated as soon as courses/groups have finished but are still available. The calendars are then still visible. This can cause the actually important (current) calendars to disappear somewhere in the lower part of the list.

The aim is to offer possibilities to navigate through the large list of personal, course and group calendars faster.

2 Conceptual Summary

• do not display calendar categories in calendar selection without any item.
• Possible solution: Deactivate Calendar in Course, if not in use??
• E.g. Personal Desktop / Calendar / Selection of Calendars on the right

Currently,

• calendars are divided into a "personal" and "other" group (in addition, there are "Consulting Hours" and "Current Course/Group" group in courses/groups).
• Within these groups the calendars are sorted alphabetically.
• The icons indicate whether it is a course or group calendar.
• Selection can be changed between "Selected Items" and "My Memberships".

But there are no more structuring possibilities within these selections.

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2.1 Collapsible Groups

To get a better overview of the existing calendar groups (personnel, others), these are to be defined as collapsible items (similar to taxonomies).

2.2 Division of "Other" Group

The group "Other" should be divided into two groups:

• Present (means "Current or future dates available")
• Past (means "No current or future dates")

These two groups are updated as soon as the page containing a Calendar Selection is displayed (performance?). The calendars are arranged alphabetically within these groups.

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

• Personal Desktop > Calendar
• Course > Calendar
• Group > Calendar

3.2 User Interface Details

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3.3 New User Interface Concepts

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4 Technical Information

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5 Contact

• Author of the Request: Seiler, Yvonne [yvseiler], Amstutz, Timon [amstutz], Universität Bern
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6 Funding

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7 Discussion

8 Implementation

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