Re: [Phpgroupware-users] Outlook Calendar Interoperability (Automatic Free/Busy Publishing)

[Brian Johnson]

My $0.02:

Option 1 (easiest): open a browser, log onto phpgw, and look

Option 2 (still easy but might be some resistance from users): open a browser, 
log
onto phpgw, and look.  Also, use phpgw as your own event storage

Option 3: check out the hamoa outlook to phpgw sync app to see if it's suitable

Ooption 4: doesn't outlook support ODBC connections?  Write ODBC SELECT queries 
to
update someone's calendar each time they log in (pita and ACL will have to be
manually implemented)

Option 5: look into the phpgw xmlrpc interface



Doug Dicks (address@hidden) wrote:
>
>We need to integrate PHPGroupware's calendaring with Outlook's
>scheduling.  Right now, the major requirement is that the Outlook users
>be able to see the PHPGroupware user's free/busy information so they can
>tell who is available.
>
>I really haven't come up with a great way to do this.  Certainly not out
>of the box, so I'm open to suggestions.
>
>One of the ways I've though of, is to automatically create and export a
>free/busy schedule every time a PHPGroupware user modifies their
>calendar.  Outlook would then be able to read that info via ftp or http.
>
>At this time, the PHPGroupware users don't need access to the Outlook
>calendars.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Doug
>
>
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