ical format

[Volker Dirr]

i didn't start coding that yet. like i said: it has very low priority to me. i coded the printing directly stuff during spring holiday. i am still optimising that and i am still waiting for test results from others. but it look like only Boby Wise need and tested that feature.

importing data from ical is pretty useless. especialy because the students structure is not saved in the ical format. so you can't import an ical format (only if you know the students structure and enter that before you import the timetable.) also importing the periods (start and end time) is difficult, because periods are saved with a time stamp in the ical format.
also importing from this doesn't make much sence, because all constraints are not saved in that format. nobody will enter a timetable with a calender and use that as an import.
the only maybe idea is using this format to share datasets between different timetable software programms. but because of the above disadvantages it is stupid to do it that way, because the csv format is much better to do that.

exporting is much easier to code. maybe i code it someday. i think i need 2 weeks to code a good export. but i haven't holiday at the moment and i also want to code/optimise the import/export to our school administration software during next summer holiday.

so an export is still on my TODO, but at the end of the list.
the import is useless in my opinion.

[Volker Dirr]

Hi,

I am currently coding an ical export. So it should be possible to import timetable data into your calendar (outlook, google calendar, ...).

please check the attached file.
it contain a students and a teachers timetable. Please check BOTH, because i coded them different. One version might be false, the other vision should be right.

please check this at BOTH tables:
-The timetable should start 02.01.2012 and should end at 31.12.2013.
-The first lesson should start at 08:05. The last lesson should end at 13:20.
-If you have summer and winter time. Please check the time at a day with summer time and recheck at an other day with winter time.

Please let me know your results. Please also tell me your calender software. Report successful and failed tests.

Thank you.

[jsg]

The import worked fine for me, for both calendars.

-The timetable should start 02.01.2012 and should end at 31.12.2013. Yes, correct
-The first lesson should start at 08:05. The last lesson should end at 13:20. Yes, but only in the winter (see below)
-If you have summer and winter time. Please check the time at a day with summer time and recheck at an other day with winter time. Yes for the class timetable. No for the teacher timetable. The teacher timetable is 08:05-13:20 in winter but 09:05-14:20 in summer (UK daylight saving time, "British Summer Time" or BST).

See screenshot.

Thanks for working on this.

[Volker Dirr]

Thank you for that report.

It will take some more time until i will release this new feature. I am still optimising it and coding the interface.

[Volker Dirr]

Look like the ical stuff work fine now. If you are interested in a preview version, please read this message (even if it look like the topic doesn't fit) to get it:
http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/forum/index.php?topic=1317.msg7525#msg7525