I’d like to have the ability for a user to go to our intranet portal and add an event, reminder, meeting, or appointment to their own calendar via a simple form and once submitted add the entry to the users mail file directly.
Any ideas of how to accomplish this without doing\needing the following:
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No iCal (they want it directly into the users calendar without user intervention)
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We don’t have http running on the mail servers, but do have http on some other servers that could process this request
Any approachs would be helpful with some details.
TIA,
Tim E. Brown
Subject: Sounds like a custom server app
Normally the approach would be to use iCalendar and have the user add it by opening the .ICS file that gets generated or to have the web server generate an iCalendar based email the user would then add to their Calendar.
Since you dont want to use iCalendar the next approach would be to have the HTTP server run on the users mail file to add it when they take the action but you do not have that either.
That leaves building some server side custom app that does the work for them. My off the cuff idea would be to have something that runs on all servers and watches a common dB or perhaps a mail-in dB for notification that something needs to be done to a local dB. (I would probably go the MIDB route to avoid replication delays.)
There may be some more sophisticated ways to address it but I leave that as an exercise for the reader.
Bruce
IBM