[Webcalendar] Newbie questions

[Joe Smith]

Sorry for the long delay; busy with other projects and this turned into 
a /book/, but now I have to demo the calendar next week (ack!) so any 
suggestions appreciated!

Rob Janssen wrote:
> Joe Smith schreef:
> ...
>> * Where to start?
>>
>> I want to demo WebCalendar for use by our church's staff, ...  What's the basic 
>> approach ... 
> 
> You need to create a calender for everyone that has to sign on using 
> name and password, but of course it can be left empty.

Right.

> You can use public calendars for rooms, and everyone can book events there.

Understood.  I'm getting a little more comfortable with it as I play
more.  However, we have about two dozen rooms and it still seems like a
lot of trouble to get a combined calendar, e.g., show all events
for today in any room.  AFAICT, I'd have to manually enter the calendar
names for all the rooms to get that view (or pick from the drop down).
That seems awkward and error prone.

A wild-card calendar name would be cool ("Rm*").  Maybe I'm still
missing something obvious.

I think I'll just make calendars for larger categories (org-wide events
+ sub-group events, etc.) and use the location fields; then check
manually for conflicts.  We don't have such a busy calendar that this
will be a big hassle.

> When you want to be able to show and/or print nice overviews of certain 
> types of events it seems reasonable to create a specific calender for them.

Right -- got it.

> Remember that you can put events in more than one calendar (e.g. room 
> and type) at the time you create them.

How?  Oh wait, I think I see: by adding it in the "Invitee" entry?  But 
you still have to remember to do it.  Forgetting to add the event to the 
(correct!) room calendar /will/ lead to big problems.

*********
The conflation of calendars, categories, resources and users is very 
confusing, especially since the documentation and the screen forms refer 
to specific uses differently at different times.
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Couple more questions (sorry to be such a pest!):

No support for multi-day events, right?  I can just fake it; not a huge 
deal.

What does drag & drop do?  Move an event?  The docs say 'IE only' -- is 
that still correct, or maybe it works in Moz/FFox now too?

Any suggestions for getting a calendar into a word-processor document?
Maybe an RTF export?  We need a /nice/ version to include in a newsletter.

Copy/paste from the printable view _works_ but requires so much tweaking 
to make a publication-quality calendar that it's easier to just start 
from scratch (which is what we already do, so it's no loss).

Big problem for us:

Lots of our events are recurring, but need tuning for each occurrence 
(different speaker or topic; change in room, different reminders, etc). 
  WebCalendar seems to handle this awkwardly: trying to edit a specific 
occurrence pops up a warning and even suggests two workarounds (edit the 
original event, or delete this occurrence and manually add a new one), 
without giving any help to do either.  I have to go find the original 
event and change it, or I have to manually delete the occurrence and 
manually re-construct the event.  Am I missing something?  Is there some 
reason WebCal can't automate this?

Is there a workaround?  Adding a separate event with the specific 
details is all I can come up with.

Ok, I'll shut up now.  Thanks for rading this far, and again, any/all 
clues welcome!

<Joe