Re: help with plone.app.event

On Fri, 2015-04-03 at 09:52 +0200, dieter wrote:
> 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).

Agreed. You can use Zope internals clockserver (which might be easier to
set up authentication) or you use a cron job to call wget or something
to call a the ical import url and make sure, you are authenticated as
someone with necessary rights. Please note, on plone.app.event's ical
iport form, after clicking save and import, all necessary info (ical
url, event type) are saved, so you should not need to call wget with url
parameters.

i have used it once like so, but i used a custom view to import it, so
this is only half of the solution:
$ wget --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies cookies.txt --post-data
'__ac_name=USERNAME&__ac_password=PASSWORD&form.submitted=1'
https://YOUR.DOMAIN/login_form
$ wget --load-cookies cookies.txt --output-document=import_response.json
-r https://YOUR.DOMAIN/PATH/TO/FOLDER/@@my_import_ical


there is another option: https://github.com/4teamwork/ftw.caldav is a
plone.app.event caldav integration. it's experimental and i didn't try
it yet...





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