The AST calendar

James W DeRoest (deroest@cac.washington.edu)
Tue, 18 Nov 1997 07:14:10 -0800


Message-Id: <199711181514.HAA08172@mailhost1.cac.washington.edu>
From: "James W DeRoest" <deroest@cac.washington.edu>
To: "AST Webpage" <astweb@u.washington.edu>
Subject:  The AST calendar
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 07:14:10 -0800

-----Original Message----- From: Ken Lowe <ken@CAC.WASHINGTON.EDU> To: ast-l@u.washington.edu <ast-l@u.washington.edu> Date: Wednesday, November 05, 1997 10:54 AM Subject: The AST calendar

I modified the way the calendar is updated. When you want to add a vacation day for yourself, instead of updating:

/usr/local/htdocs/ast/calendar/xxxYY.html

on neruda, update:

/ux01/gurus/events

wherever. The calendar is now generated by a cgi "script" that reads this file and the /ux01/gurus/unix_guru and /ux01/gurus/phones to build the calendar on the fly.

Each line in the events file consists of a date and an html snippet describing the event (such as a vacation day). Having html in the events file is somewhat awkward, but it is extremely flexible.

-Ken

PS: You may have to click "reload" on the main AST page before you can click "calendar" (and you may have to update your own bookmarks if you have any).