Re: [Evolution-hackers] Communication with e-d-s

[Dick Kniep <dick kniep nl>]

Anyone?

Op zaterdag 15 oktober 2005 20:59, schreef Dick Kniep:
> Hi list,
>
> This is my first post to this list, and I am definitely no wizard in Bonobo
> or evolution. On the other hand I have done a fair amount of searching on
> the Internet, so I hope you have an answer to this fairly basic question I
> have.
>
> We have developed a big application in Python, Postgresql, OpenOffice,
> taskjuggler and other goodies. Now we want to connect to an agenda, and I
> have chosen evolution because it connects well to all the real world
> servers including ms-exchange which is being used by the vast majority of
> our customers.
>
> What we want is:
>
> 1. Read the iCal data from evolution, connecting a certain appointment in
> evolution to a DB item based on the UID number in the iCal. This should be
> possible under all circumstances (user uses imap, webcal or any other way
> of storing the calendar data).
>
> 2. When a user pushes a certain button in our application evolution should
> fire up, and the user should be able to enter the appointment (so only the
> appointment screen should start), next our application should receive the
> UID of the newly created appointment, so that the appointment-id can be
> stored in the database.
>
> 3. It is necessary that with the appointment also resources like a room, a
> beamer or anything else, are committed, and the user must be able to look
> at the free/busy information of these resources.
>
> Now I think it is best to use bonobo to connect to the e-d-s. But because I
> have no experience in doing this, and do not program in C, (only Python), I
> would be very happy if someone could give me an example on how to do this.
> The only documentation I found gives .h files for use in C, and although
> they may be perfectly clear for experienced C programmers, for me they are
> hullabaloo.
>
> I promise that if I get this stuff going, I will write a how-to for the
> Python folks.
>
> Cheers,
>
> D.Kniep
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