SID-01948: Calendar with reminders

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A client asks:

Is there an add on for calendars that would enable emailing someone when a due date approaches? Sort of like how the outlook calendar does?

I found Plugins/MailReminderPlugin, but it seems to be designed to work for only a single person and email address. ALso, it hasn't been touched or (apparently) tested in a decade.

There's Plugins/ActionTrackerPlugin, which I have used in the past. It's both complex and complicated and not really calendar-based but I could probably moosh it into submission to do what the client wants.

Should I simply suggest that they use Google Calendar and embed that in a TWiki page?

-- Vicki Brown - 2014-07-14

Discussion and Answer

Embedding a Google calendar is certainly a good way to go.

TWiki's CalendarPlugin is a shared calendar. What syntax would you use to specify who should be notified, and by how much time ahead of the calendar event? Possibly restrict to a fixed recipient list per calendar? This would make sense for team calendars. Example:

• Set CALENDARMAILTO = VickiBrown, PeterThoeny
• Set CALENDARALERT = 30 min

If you want to enhance the CalendarPlugin with e-mail alerts look into the NotifyAuthorsPlugin. You likely can use code from that plugin. In your case, mail is not triggered by user action, but by a cron job that checks the calendar events. This sounds like an interesting project.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2014-07-14

MailReminderPlugin supposedly enables the fixed recipient per calendar idea.

If I were to enhance CalendarPlugin, I'd more likely do it in the same way that TimeTablePlugin does it, e.g. something akin to

   * 22 May 2006 - %REMINDERS{"1d,bob@foo.com,fred@foo.com"}% Meeting

-- Vicki Brown - 2014-07-14

Ah, I was not aware of the MailReminderPlugin.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2014-07-14

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