Basic Questions/Documentation

[Brian A. Rellinger]

We're testing this application - love it so far! Is there some basic
documentation somewhere on how the product works? For example, whats
the best way to load locations into the DB? Just us phpmyadmin or
mysql command line, or does the backend provide some of those
capabilities?

Thanks in advance!
Brian

[Brett Bieber]

There are some scripts in the repository for doing basic operations
like this. http://code.google.com/p/unl-event-publisher/source/browse/#svn%2FUNL_UCBCN%2Ftrunk%2Fscripts

I would take a look at those for some examples. Specifically, I think
the insert sample data script had some code for importing locations in
an old revision. Eh, maybe this one:
http://code.google.com/p/unl-event-publisher/source/browse/UNL_UCBCN/trunk/insert_sample_data.php?spec=svn1367&r=464

There's a few pages on the wiki that have some documentation. Of
course there could always be more.
http://code.google.com/p/unl-event-publisher/w/list

Hope that helps

--
Brett Bieber
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

[Brian A. Rellinger]

Thanks. I ended up installing MySQL workbench to populate the
locations. Worked great. For the building locations, I used latitude
and longitude in the links (tables/location/mapurl). This allows a
user to click on the link and go to the exact building location on
campus (as opposed to a street address).

So for our Ross Art Museum, a user will see a green arrow on the
actual building location, and a red arrow for the nearest street
address:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=40.296623,+-83.068245&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=66.574603,72.597656&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=67



On Feb 24, 2:51 pm, Brett Bieber <brett.bie...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Brian A. Rellinger <barel...@owu.edu> wrote:
>
> > We're testing this application - love it so far!  Is there some basic
> > documentation somewhere on how the product works?  For example, whats
> > the best way to load locations into the DB?  Just us phpmyadmin or
> > mysql command line, or does the backend provide some of those
> > capabilities?
>
> There are some scripts in the repository for doing basic operations

> like this.http://code.google.com/p/unl-event-publisher/source/browse/#svn%2FUNL...

>
> I would take a look at those for some examples. Specifically, I think
> the insert sample data script had some code for importing locations in

> an old revision. Eh, maybe this one:http://code.google.com/p/unl-event-publisher/source/browse/UNL_UCBCN/...

>
> There's a few pages on the wiki that have some documentation. Of

> course there could always be more.http://code.google.com/p/unl-event-publisher/w/list

[Brian A. Rellinger]

Here is our documentation as it stands today, just getting started. I
realize there are other topics to cover, but I thought I'd share what
I have to date. I'm hoping to add video or at least screen shots in
the next couple of weeks....if you'd like this document in word just
let me know.

OWU Event Publisher User Guide

How to add an event:
- Click “Submit an Event”
- Login with your OWU username and password
- Click “Create Event”
- Fill out all of the fields with a red *
- If you’d like to include an image, select “Click to add additional
details”
- Click “Submit”

How to obtain a permanent link to a specific date or event:
- Permanent links to pages can be obtained by clicking “(link)” next
to the title of the event. This appears on all event pages, as well
as on the Today’s Event page. Once you click the link, you can copy
the URL in the address bar of your browser. That link can then be
shared with others, and will take recipients to that exact page.

How to get a map of the event location:
- If a map is available for an event, there will be a link in RED in
the Location box. Clicking on that link will bring up a map of the
location. After you bring up the map by clicking the link, you can
copy the URL from your browser if you wish to share the location with
others.

How to subscribe to a calendar:
- Method 1, ICAL: Click on “Subscribe to this calendar”, and select
“.ical format”. This will download a file called “events.ics” to your
computer. This file can then be imported into many different
calendaring solutions. If you wish to import this into BishopApps,
follow these steps to show events from the specific calendar:
o Login to BishopApps
o Select “Calendar” from the top left of your browser
o If you wish to create a new calendar that operates separately from
your main calendar (RECOMMENDED), click “Add” under My calendars, give
it a name and description and click “create calendar”.
o Click “Settings” at the top right of your browser, and then
“Calendar Settings”
o Click “Calendars”, and then “Import Calendar”
o Click “Choose File” and browse your computer to the location of the
events.ics file you downloaded, and click “Open”.
o In the calendar drop down box, select the calendar you just created
and click “Import”. You should receive a confirmation that events
were imported.
o As new events are posted to the calendar that you just subscribed
to, they will appear on your BishopsApps calendar.
o See the IS Self Help for more information on how to turn on and off
calendars.
- Method 2, RSS: Click on Subscribe to this calendar, and select RSS
feed. This will give you an RSS feed that you can then add into
Google Reader or other RSS feed readers. New events will continue to
appear without having to visit the events page directly.

URL Strings:
- View all upcoming events for the main calendar:
http://rigel.owu.edu/calendar/?&upcoming=upcoming&
- View events for a specific day (Feb 27, 2011 this case):
http://rigel.owu.edu/calendar/?&y=2011&m=2&d=27&
- Search for a particular word (course in this case):
http://rigel.owu.edu/calendar/?&search=search&q=course&
- View a particular month (March in this case): http://rigel.owu.edu/calendar/?&y=2011&m=3
- View the RSS feed of upcoming events: http://rigel.owu.edu/calendar/?&upcoming=upcoming&format=rss
- View a particular subcalendar’s upcoming events (Alumni in this
case, which has a unique ID of 6: http://rigel.owu.edu/calendar/?calendar_id=6&upcoming=upcoming&
- Go directly to week view (starting with Sunday in this case, s=0 is
Sunday, s=1 is Monday, etc): http://rigel.owu.edu/calendar/?s=0
- View calendar in XML format: http://rigel.owu.edu/calendar/?format=xml
- View calendar in RSS format: http://rigel.owu.edu/calendar/?format=rss
- View calendar in ICS format: http://rigel.owu.edu/calendar/?format=ics
- View calendar in hcalendar format: http://rigel.owu.edu/calendar/?format=hcalendar

On Feb 28, 1:35 pm, "Brian A. Rellinger" <barel...@owu.edu> wrote:
> Thanks.  I ended up installing MySQL workbench to populate the
> locations.  Worked great.  For the building locations, I used latitude
> and longitude in the links (tables/location/mapurl).  This allows a
> user to click on the link and go to the exact building location on
> campus (as opposed to a street address).
>
> So for our Ross Art Museum, a user will see a green arrow on the
> actual building location, and a red arrow for the nearest street

> address:http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=40.296623...