[chandler-users] Better support for admin to setup sharing of calendars

[Matthew Eernisse]

Howdy.

Randy Letness wrote:
> We'd like to support an easier workflow through the web ui and we are 
> thinking about ways of doing that.
> 
>> Also... completely unrelated, but I'm in the UK and the US date format 
>> of the advanced menu at the right always stings me. Can I set my 
>> locale somewhere to fix this? Also... it'd be great if there were a 
>> popup that meant I didn't have to type anything in there at all.
>>

Sounds like something like a, um ... date picker might be useful here. :)

> I think the may be a property in PimMessageResources.properties, which 
> is located in the war file under WEB-INF/classes.  Someone may want to 
> chime in on this.

Sadly, the format for dates in the detail view is hard-coded to 
mm/dd/yyyy format (cosmo.util.validate.dateFormat). It would be easy to 
hack it to allow yyyy/mm/dd, but I think UK is dd/mm/yyyy, which is 
impossible to distinguish without some kind of setting.

I think that assumption about date format is pretty pervasive throughout 
the app, although there are a couple of places where display of date 
strings are localized in PimMessageResources.properties.

It's definitely a problem that could be attacked in pieces -- first step 
might be allowing the admin to set a date format globally for the whole 
server.

Once the UI knows what that is, it would be relatively easy to hit the 
most annoying parts of the app first, like the date inputs.

I could certainly help out with that.


Matthew