Calendar Software?

Matty

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Hi,

Our office (a medical clinic) is currently using a web-based calendar system (data hosted off-site). We're looking to change to a calendar system where we can store the data locally. Ideally we want to have a database on one of our servers and have a front-end on each client computer to add/edit appointment details. I'm quite sure I can make it myself, but I simply don't have the time to sneak this in between current projects.

Does anyone know of any software that could be purchased that would do what we want to do?
 
I actually use the Mozilla Calendar extenstion for Firefox on my own computer at work. But I only use it for my own personal tasks, not shared ones. Do you know if you can use a centralized calendar for it and have it editable from other computers?

I've tried out some other programs like Mozilla that use the iCalendar standard. I thought maybe we could publish our calendar on a local share and let each front-end edit it, but you can only publish from one location and if you subscribe, it's read-only.

I'm still learning the iCalendar stuff, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
 
Hmm, threads freaking out a bit I already replied but I think it got lost. Like you I have only used it personally, but it seems it can do everything you want. However, you may want a more "tried and tested" solution. Here are some links which should help you;

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/faq.html#share
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:FAQ#Webdav_or_Caldav:_Which_should_I_choose.3F
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/releases/sunbird_0.3alpha1.html (WebDAV Calendar Backup System should reassure ;-)
http://calendarhelp.mozdev.org/open.xul

I'm far from an expert in iCal, but that should give you pretty much all the info you need. I think this hinges on the web server access you have; if you have access to apache and webdav, you should be able to get just what you want. Good luck.
 
Thanks for the links!

I'm still curious if the publishing/subscription thing will work for me. Let's say I have a WebDAV server to publish this calendar to. Each client computer will subscribe to it, I'm assuming. But that means the subscribers can't add/edit the calendar, just read it. Is there a way for each computer to publish to that calendar and have it show up on the other client computers?


Edit: It looks like the quick-reply isn't bringing you back to the thread, but it still posts it up. Doing a normal reply seems to work, though.
 

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