Tersus: Re: Future Development

Re: Future DevelopmentDate: Dec 19, 2008ad 3.Calendar

Calendar - This is quite important function for us. We have developed Calendar based on standard Tersus functionality - HTMLTag mixed with custom CSS. Calendar is responsible for visualization of events. It works like any known calendar (eg. google calendar) but it does not have db support. You have to initialize it with parameters (nr of columns, column names (mon, tue, .... or person name), and list of calenar events). If user moves event - calendar will fire event <On Event Move> and you have to develop DB update yourself. There is some disadvantages of our calendar:

works only on Firefox 3 (I don't know why - it was discoused between Jakub Tutaj and David on this forum but ended with no conclution (as far as I remember)
It is slow. Thanks to Tersus team and we were able to optimize its code and make it about 20 times faster, but it still loads 3 - 10 sec 70 events on 5 column calendar. Time of loading is dependent on end user computer.
It does not support drag&drop. It supports only click&click (you select event by click and select destination by second click)

This is why we are evaluating writing calendar again based on PHP and Javascript and integrate it with Tersus. Youval helped us with sending events from iFrame (php + js) to Tersus (http://www.tersus.com/#Id=1694). Next step will be communication the other way - from Tersus send data and events to iFrame. I hope this solution should work on both IE and FF and should be much faster and flexible. (first tersus based implementation could be flexible also, but it would sacrify performace)

For now we do not have end user experiens with calendar. I will be publicly avaiable with our NEW application - Q1 2009. It is quite possible that we will start NEW with old tersus based implementation. I hope to share calendar module with tersus comunity in future. From begining it was written to be able to reuse it in other applications and with hope to share it with tersus community. Current version is mature enough to be shared - but we need some effort to make package and some documentation. If someone needs similar functionality - let me know - I will upload it to tersus applications faster.

several applications for endusersTo avoid relogin to few small application with top level dashboard you can use cookies and session id. It is possible to login/eneter tersus application using Callable service. We decided to create login page in PHP and give user possibility to select "remember me on this computer". PHP collects username and password and sends it to callable service. it was discussed between Darek, David and Youval on this forum (http://www.tersus.com/#Id=1441)regards,pawel bahyryczSee Also:

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