[geeklog-devel] Calendar Plugin - Recurring Events

[Vincent Furia]

Reminders are something we'd like to have, at the very least, the option to
add in the future. There is also a "notification" GSoC project to develop a
notification system. Once both the Calendars are tied in would seem a
natural fit.

-Vinny

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Anthony Rowles <aqrowles at gmail.com> wrote:

> Great question - of course it depends on the type of reminder.  For a
> notification on login, etc. (user-initiated), it's not bad, but client-side
> processing makes something like automated emailed reminders pretty
> difficult.  If you had to do it, you could probably do it with a post-back
> that flags events that need reminding out to some number of days, or
> maintains a "next occurance" field, which works if the user logs in
> semi-regularly, but it seems like a bit of a hack to me.  If emailed
> reminders are necessary, a different design is probably superior.
>
> - Tony
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Vlad Voicu <vladvoic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Anthony Rowles <aqrowles at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > With what I've proposed, you'd do this calculation
>> > every time, but the calculation is done server-side so it scales, while
>> > avoiding the space cost of populating lots of events into the future.
>> Joe's
>> > method does have the advantage of making support for JS-disabled clients
>> > much simpler, as well.
>> >
>>
>> I was wondering how are you going to implement reminders for recurring
>> events.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vlad.
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