DayCalendar macro will show events on a single day with similar features as MonthCalendar (including colouring for group calendaring).
Currently it stores dates as BasePage/2002-02-11/2100 meaning that BasePage entity has a date at day 2002-02-11 at 21:00 and lasting for 30 minutes (because half an hour is the current resolution of the DayCalendar and intervals are not handled yet).
Open questions:
- how to represent time intervals?
- ideas:
BasePage/2002-02-11/2100-2300 - this would be maybe the most intuitive way.
BasePage/2002-02-11/2100+0200 - meaning length=0200, also quite intuitive and better for dates crossing midnight
- ideas:
- how to effective compute intersections of dates of multiple users?
- how to enter such intervals in a comfortable way?
Will upload the macro as soon as this is a bit more clear to me and the implementation then gets more usable...
It probably would make more sense to store the appointsments in a database, and then display them via the macro itself, so that you only have one page with the macro call, which then allows one to extend and explore the database.
Database can mean anything from flat files, XML, CSV, dbhash, SQL.