Presentation at 2012 Cascade Server User Conference: http://www.hannonhill.com/news/conference/Sessions/Calendars-Cascade-Server.html

1. CALENDARS IN
CASCADE SERVER
ERIC L. EPPS @ERICEPPS

2. OVERVIEW
• Pros/Cons of using this method
• Look at web interfaces
• XML Source files
• Process
• XSL/Velocity Code!

3. PROS & CONS
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
• Few source files, many • Lots of pages
views • Long time to publish
• Uniform look & feel, (much better in 7.x)
control • Complex style sheets
• Easily maintained with
Web Services scripts
and auto-publish
• Descriptive URLs

4. WEB INTERFACE
HOME PAGE – MINI-CALENDAR

5. WEB INTERFACE
DAILY EVENT LISTING

6. WEB INTERFACE
WEEKLY ROOM SCHEDULE

7. WEB INTERFACE
CAMPUS MAP PAGE – TODAY’S SCHEDULE

8. WEB INTERFACE
FULL MONTHLY CALENDAR

9. WEB INTERFACE
FACULTY SCHEDULE

10. OTHER INTERFACES
ICALENDAR FEED – GOOGLE CALENDAR

11. OTHER INTERFACES
DISPLAY MONITOR

12. OTHER INTERFACES
WAY-FINDING KIOSK

13. XML SOURCE
COURSE SCHEDULE EVENT LISTING FACULTY
SCHEDULES

14. PROCESS
• Events vs. Recurring Schedules
• Event List = Easy
1. pull the list of events
2. if it matches criteria, output
• Class Schedule, Faculty Schedule = More Difficult
1. pull list of classes
2. create list of events from recurrence
3. if event from list matches criteria, output

15. CHOOSING THE TOOL
• Just Event List? Just Schedule info?
• Pull list of events/courses
• Don’t need to parse recurrence
• XSL
• Listing by Room/Faculty Member?
• Need to parse recurrence
• May need to combine both in single page
• Velocity
• In general, I use XSL when the XML source is similar
to the desired output, Velocity when I need to
manipulate the data more.

16. CODE WALKTHROUGH
HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/ERICEPPS/CASCADE-CALENDAR

17. THANK YOU!
Links for this presentation:
http://bit.ly/CSUC12-Calendars
Eric L. Epps
Web Developer
Sauk Valley Community College
eric.epps@svcc.edu