2nd round Calendar Investigation Trac Timeline-Images Tab

[saloynton]

A further more specific investigation of application only calendar will be considered. This has been implemented because of the differences in the range of web based calendar applications that in many cases would not be applicable to a standard application.

The initial selection of apps that have been singled out:

• Thunderbird with Lightning.
• iCal.
• Rainlendar.
• Facebook (event driven calendar view).
• OMERO Web mobile.

UPDATE: The items highlighted in bold are completed in the document attached.

UPDATE: The remaining two apps have been reviewed. The one aspect raised in the discussion of the work was the advantage of an event driven calendar view. This removed the need to fully implement a calendar and so face the challenge of making it compatible with other existing calendars. As well facing the challenge of forcing users to adopt a new calendar.

• The general finding from the minor investigation was the event driven calendar based feed might be a more suitable technique of presenting calendar history. With large amount of information, a key challenge is ensuring a suitable selection of information filters.

NOTE: Before ticket closed need to check where the priority is for the work and if more suitable to pick up later?

Conclusion
The conclusion for the work is that for key requirement identified for Calendar functionality is that it will move forward adopting the model of the event driven feed to manage the user history.

This is to prevent the requirements for the calendar functionality of becoming over complex and over bloated. This is due to the functionality of the traditional calendar. In the inclusion of the traditional calendar it introduces the problem of dealing with the use for planning daily schedule and for planning the next few months. This is not required for the calendar functionality.

Based on this the web mobile application can be used to explore the functionality. The ticket has been created #4425 (Update gretzky with webmobile) to allow the user testing with the mobile client to explore the feedback interface.

[saloynton]

Screen shots of apps only of calendar/event driven functionality

[jburel]

Scott: did you put the conclusion in another document e.g. word/google? b/c this will be lost as soon as the ticket is closed.