Chapter 10 Intranet Calendar Manager (Web hosting servers) IN THIS CHAPTER
Chapter 10 Intranet Calendar Manager IN THIS CHAPTER . Developing an intranet event calendar . Installing an intranet event calendar . Using an intranet event calendar WORK MEANS SCHEDULES, and schedules mean important dates. Everyone has important family- and work-related dates that they need to remember. Many use a calendar as a tool to remind themselves of such events. In this chapter, we look at an intranet calendar system that enables a company to publish important events via a central calendar, and enables users to keep track of their personal events and dates. Identifying Functionality Requirements The calendar system that you ll put together in this chapter will have the following functionality: . Global events: These events can be predefined in a configuration file to show up on the calendar every year. These may include annual company events. . Holiday events: These events can be predefined in a configuration file to show up on the calendar every year. These are standard holidays with fixed dates, such as Independence Day, Christmas, New Year s Day, and so forth. Holidays that are not on a fixed date such as Thanksgiving, Labor Day, etc. will have to be set up manually. . Weekends: Weekends can be configured to be any days and any number of days using a configuration file. Some parts of the world don t follow the Saturday-Sunday weekend system used in the U.S. and Europe. . Repeatable events: Users can configure events to repeat weekly, monthly, or yearly. 335