RE: calendar volunteers needed

Drupal's older calender module did not do automatic updates of calender material; however Drupal can be configured to email notifications based on updates to all material on the site - which I believe would be overkill?

The newer modules and 3rd party solutions will do various kinds of calendering with notification, but they are only compatible with later Drupal versions.

I only looked at this for a minute from outside web sources, rather than specific to the customization of the site; versions and evaluation of the complete tree.

Running via cron, a small perl, php or shell script could easily do a database lookup (or sed/awk if this is enabled as flat file database) for SELECT FROM parameters on $eventdate and $nextday for any portion of the Drupal data subset, then email the list with a form including notes; a solution we certainly could engineer as layered customization, rather than update the whole site.

If Hans has extensive customizations, the layered cron script would be easier, however an update to Drupal is indicated due to security issues, also: Example = http://drupal.org/node/216063

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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 06:58:35 -0700
From: mark@phillipsmarketing.biz
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: calendar volunteers needed

I am not familiar with Drupal based sites, but is there a way to set up the calendar so it automatically sends an email announcement of events? I manage a couple of Plone based sites, and there are Python scripts that send an email to members when an event is added or changed on the calendar. The members add the events themselves to the calendar (workflow rules require review before publishing the event) and then the email is sent when the event is published. An email is automatically sent to the designated reviewers when someone submits a new event for the calendar. No one has to look for events/announcements, it is more of a push system that informs the right folks when something has to be done.
Perhaps someone who knows Drupal can find out if there are workflow rules that can be adapted to handle some of the load? I know very little about Drupal, so I am just thinking out loud.
Mark

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com> wrote:

I appologise to the group for my part in the lack of web site

attention. I have become very busy in other areas of my life. Where

I used to keep the web site mostly up to date, I have left a vacuum.



The task is really not hard, just regular watching for announcements

and requests in the email lists and then posting to the site. It's a

fairly easy way to make a big contribution to the group.



Alan

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