[Koha-bugs] [Bug 17015] New Koha Calendar

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17015

--- Comment #50 from Olli-Antti Kivilahti <olli-antti.kivilahti at jns.fi> ---
(In reply to Blou from comment #49)

> I admit not understanding exactly your need, but I liked the use of
> "interact in interesting ways".
I mean there are different types of opening hours in a library.
Different services are available on different hours.

> One thing I'd bet on is that this new calendar would make it
> much easier for you to stack on extra constraints.
What I am concerned is the choice of GUI technologies, if they allow easily to
set different types of opening hours in the calendar and can visualize those to
the user.
I was dabbling with https://fullcalendar.io/ on our overduenotices rewrite.
It is pretty cool.

> But adding an extra column to the
> "discrete_calendar" table to represent a combo (branch, checkouttype) would
> be easy.  Not in this patch, though :)
Adding a new column was what I was thinking of. Should be rather simple.
We can provide a followup when we start working on that.


Also popped into my head. You should add a REST API endpoint for CRUD:ing the
calendar entries.
Then write the GUI on top of the REST API.
This way you have architecturally solid separation of backend-logic from
front-end logic. And can make some super snappy UIs using AJAX.
Also we can write our own GUI to interface with the discrete_calendar if we
want.
Our pretty much anybody can do it on top a of a well defined API.

...but maybe not in this rewrite. Up to you how you want to upgrade your
workflow.



Atomicupdate:
installer/data/mysql/atomicupdate/generate_discrete_calendar.perl

Not sure what is the community recommendation for naming conventions here.
I find it polite to include the ticket number there, eg:

installer/data/mysql/atomicupdate/Bug-17015-generate_discrete_calendar.perl



tests++

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