[Cosmo-dev] Automated Item submission to a collection

[John Townsend]

I can envision possible WebUIs that would allow users to fill out a  
form with the appropriate data. The form can send email to the  
calendar with the data in a well-designed format (such as the sharing  
format). Just a thought.

--> towns

On Jul 26, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Jared Rhine wrote:

> I wondered aloud on the design list how an Item submitted to a  
> calendar via
> an email address would work technically?  I said there that if I  
> parsed an
> event, server-side as a /Event, I knew how to create an event in a  
> calendar
> via CalDAV or ics PUT.  But how would this work for a generic  
> Chandler Item?
>
> I suggested that maybe the answer is the sharing format.  Is that  
> indeed the
> answer?  Will the operation be something like: Compose an XML/whatever
> single-item file representing the contents of the Item.  Do a PUT  
> with a
> content-type of text/xml to the Collection's URL giving the item a  
> unique
> UUID filename?
>
> Alternatives are perhaps CMP instead as Cosmo becomes pretty  
> intimate with
> the Chandler semantics?  Other options?
>
> Not looking for resolution on this issue, as there's too many  
> unknowns, but
> I was hoping to reality-check likely scenarios in order to estimate  
> their
> feasibility for the service to implement.
>
> -- Jared
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