EventAggregator

Annotated README.txt

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2009-11-07 Paul Boddie file changeset files shortlog Incorporated changes to the RSS feed which enhance the title, link and description of each feed to refer to the page which provided it, as well as a change in the ordering of events in a feed, placing the latest events (in terms of the event start date) first.
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Introduction
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The EventAggregator macro for MoinMoin can be used to display event calendars

 
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or listings which obtain their data from pages belonging to specific

 
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categories (such as CategoryEvents). The start and end dates are read from the

 
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page describing each event, and the calendar is automatically filled out with

 
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the details of each event, colouring each event period in a specially

 
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generated colour.

 
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The EventAggregatorSummary action can be used to provide iCalendar and RSS

 
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summaries of event data based on pages belonging to specific categories, as

 
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described above. The category, start and end parameters are read directly from

 
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the request as URL or form parameters: these restrict the extent of each

 
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generated summary.

 
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The EventAggregatorNewEvent action can be used to conveniently create new

 
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event pages, displaying a simple form which can be filled out in order to

 
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provide elementary event details such as the event title or summary, the

 
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categories to which the page will be assigned, and the start and end dates of

 
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the event.

 
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Installation

 
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To install the support library, consider using the setup.py script provided:

 
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  python setup.py install

 
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You may wish to indicate a specific prefix if MoinMoin is not installed in the

 
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traditional location:

 
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  python setup.py install --prefix=path-to-moin-prefix

 
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To install the macro in a Wiki, consider using the instmacros script provided:

 
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  ./instmacros path-to-wiki

 
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On non-UNIX platforms, it is necessary to manually copy the contents of the

 
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macros directory in this distribution into the macros directory of your Wiki.

 
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It is highly recommended that the tables and listings be styled according to

 
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the stylesheet provided, and you can use this file as a starting point for

 
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your own modifications. To install the stylesheet, consider using the

 
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insttheme script provided:

 
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  ./insttheme path-to-wiki theme-name

 
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Again, on non-UNIX platforms, it is necessary to manually copy the files. In

 
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this case, just copy the contents of the css directory into the css directory

 
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of themes which will support styling of event calendars and listings.

 
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To activate the styles provided by the stylesheet in the css directory, you

 
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will need to edit the screen.css file in each affected theme's css directory,

 
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adding the following before any style rules:

 
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  /* Event aggregation... */

 
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  @import "event-aggregator.css";

 
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This ensures that the styles are made available to the browser.

 
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To install the actions in a Wiki, consider using the instactions script provided:

 
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  ./instactions path-to-wiki

 
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On non-UNIX platforms, it is necessary to manually copy the contents of the

 
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actions directory in this distribution into the actions directory of your Wiki.

 
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Useful Pages

 
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The pages directory contains a selection of useful pages using a syntax

 
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appropriate for use with MoinMoin 1.6 or later. These pages can be created

 
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through the Wiki and their contents copied in from each of the files.

 
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Using the Macro

 
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It should now be possible to edit pages and use the macro as follows. For

 
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MoinMoin 1.5:

 
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  [[EventAggregator(CategoryEvents)]]

 
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For MoinMoin 1.6 and above:

 
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  <<EventAggregator(CategoryEvents)>>

 
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As arguments to the macro, you must indicate a comma-separated list of

 
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categories to be inspected for event data. For example:

 
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  <<EventAggregator(CategoryEvents,CategoryTraining)>>

 
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By default, this should display a calendar in a collection of tables, one for

 
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each month containing events. To show a collection of month-by-month listings,

 
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use the 'mode' argument as follows:

 
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  <<EventAggregator(CategoryEvents,mode=list)>>

 
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See pages/HelpOnEventAggregator for more detailed information.

 
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Using the Actions

 
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To obtain an iCalendar summary, the EventAggregatorSummary action can be

 
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selected from the actions menu on any page. Alternatively, a collection of

 
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parameters can be specified in the URL of any Wiki page.

 
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See pages/HelpOnEventAggregatorSummary for more detailed information.

 
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To create new events using the EventAggregatorNewEvent action, the appropriate

 
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menu entry can be selected in the actions menu. Alternatively, clicking on a

 
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day number in a calendar view will invoke the action and pre-fill the form

 
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with the start date set to the selected day from the calendar.

 
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See pages/HelpOnEventAggregatorNewEvent for more detailed information.

 
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Recommended Software

 
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The Xapian search software is highly recommended, if not technically

 
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essential, for the acceptable performance of the EventAggregator macro since

 
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the macro makes use of search routines in MoinMoin that can dominate the time

 
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spent processing requests.

 
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See the following page for information on Xapian and MoinMoin:

 
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http://moinmo.in/HelpOnXapian

 
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Troubleshooting

 
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See here for a bug related to category recognition:

 
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http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinBugs/1.7TemplatesNotAppearing

 
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This affects installations where migrations between versions have occurred,

 
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yet the Wiki configuration retains old regular expression details.

 
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Contact, Copyright and Licence Information

 
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See the following Web pages for more information about this work:

 
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http://moinmo.in/MacroMarket/EventAggregator

 
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http://moinmo.in/ActionMarket/EventAggregator

 
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The author can be contacted at the following e-mail address:

 
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paul@boddie.org.uk

 
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Copyright and licence information can be found in the docs directory - see

 
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docs/COPYING.txt and docs/LICENCE.txt for more information.

 
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New in EventAggregator 0.4 (Changes since EventAggregator 0.3)

 
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  * Added a table view in the macro, using special topic/category styles to

 
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    provide background colours for events.

 
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  * Added category propagation from calendars to the new event form provided

 
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    by the EventAggregatorNewEvent action.

 
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  * Added a default template parameter to the macro, employed by the new event

 
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    form.

 
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  * Added a parent page parameter which is used by the new event form to place

 
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    new event pages in a particular location specific to a calendar or

 
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    collection of events.

 
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  * Improved the presentation of pop-up event information elements.

 
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  * Added navigation between display modes (calendar, list and table views).

 
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  * Ensured that calendar settings are retained when creating new events for a

 
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    calendar.

 
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  * Fixed various problems with events not having topics.

 
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New in EventAggregator 0.3 (Changes since EventAggregator 0.2)

 
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  * Added a parameter to the EventAggregatorSummary action to select the

 
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    source of event descriptions for the RSS feed.

 
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  * Updated the documentation to cover the RSS support.

 
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  * Added the EventAggregatorNewEvent action.

 
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  * Improved the calendar view in the macro to use the fixed table layout

 
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    algorithm and to provide cells spanning potentially many columns for

 
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    continuing events. Introduced pop-up elements in order to show truncated

 
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    event names.

 
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  * Made the "weekly" naming policy the default in the calendar view.

 
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  * Improved the list view in the macro.

 
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  * Introduced RSS 2.0 feed support.

 
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  * Improved the help pages. 

 
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Release Procedures

 
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Update the EventAggregatorSupport.py __version__ attribute and the setup.py

 
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version details.

 
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Change the version number and package filename/directory in the documentation.

 
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Update the setup.py and PKG-INFO files.

 
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Update the release notes (see above).

 
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Tag, export.

 
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Archive, upload.

 
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Update the MacroMarket and ActionMarket (see above for the URLs).