Policies: Calendar¶

The calendar tool provides a single calendar for a community.

Calendar Monthly¶

Members of the community see an “Add Event” action
Page heading shows the date, e.g. “March 2009”
Submenu with “Monthly View” and “Listing View” options. Currently-selected view is not a hyperlink.
Links to the earlier and later months of the calendar
Monthly layout
Clicking on the calendar tool goes by default to the current month/year
If viewing the current month/year, the current day has a light orange background color
Show the days of the week at the top, starting with Sun (then Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat)
Days with events on that day have a hyperlink going to the listing view with that day as the jumplink
For each day with events that are “on” that day:
- Make a bulleted list showing up to 2 of the entries
- Each item shows the first 20 characters of the title as a hyperlink, with the full title as the hover value (title attribute).
- If over 20 characters, truncate with an ellipsis
Only show events that the Requesting User is allowed to see
Multi-day events get listed on each day
Show an syndication feed icon

Members of the community see an “Add Event” action
Submenu with “Monthly View” and “Listing View” options. Currently-selected view is not a hyperlink.
Page title is Calendar Listing, with a centered heading of date (e.g. March 2009) under the submenu
For each day of the month where there are events that the Requesting User is allowed to see:
- Make a jumplink for that day of the month
- Show day of the week then day of the month, e.g. “Saturday, 7”
- Provide a listing of all the events on that day, with a background color on the listing
- Each is the title of the event as a hyperlink

Title is a required field
Tags field
“Event Starts” is a required field defaulting to today’s year/month/day/hour, plus a minutes slot for each 15 min segment
“Event Ends” is a required field defaulting to today’s year/month/day/hour, plus a minutes slot for each 15 min segment
Both have calendar popups
“Event body text” richtext field which contributes to indexing
Attendees list with a value per line. Other than being mapped to a sequence, this has no particular meaning.
Contact name field, free text, no constraints.
Contact email field, free text, no constraints.
Optional upload file field which contributes to indexing.
Is Private Field
Send Alert Field
Submit goes to view the new event with a status message indicating success
Cancel goes back to the calendar monthly view