Re: help with plone.app.event

Stefano Prestini <stefano.prestini-y6W5KEIK/[email protected]> writes:
> On plone I installed and configured plone.app.event, by clicking "save and import" events are downloaded from the webdav server and shown in plone folder with "Solgema fullcalendar" view
>
> The question is this: can I automate import from webdav server without having to click anytime the button "save and import"?

Web applications (such as Plone) are mostly client controlled: any
action is (usually) initiated by a client.

In your case, this means, that some client must call for the
"save and import" to initiate the webdav interaction.

However, "client" does not necessarily mean a human user. It can be
something automatic - e.g. a periodically executed script.


There are essentially two kinds of automatic actions:

  1. actions associated with some kind of other client
     initiated activity.

  2. periodically initiated actions

For the first kind, you might be able to use a subscriber for a
Zope event -- e.g. do something when a user logs in or when events
are created/modified.

For the second kind, you can either use Zope's "clockserver"
or an externally scheduled action (e.g. via "cron" on *Nix systems).


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