"Recurring Calendar" - eZ Publish Partner Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 2012

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Joe Kepley's presentation on Recurring Calendar - advanced calendar feature development for eZ Publish.

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Recurring Calendar with BlendCalendar
Joe Kepley, Blend Interactive

eZ provides an events calendar, but it’s very basic

Due to services like Google Calendar, users expect very advanced calendaring

Recurring events is one of those modeling problems that seems easy on the surface,
but is really quite complex.

Presenter: Joe Kepley 2/9/12 SLIDE 1

Record per event, separate storage of recurrence rules

Natural extension of single event storage with a rules table

Easy to understand

Easy to query

Requires generation of events via scheduled job

Multiple records per occurrence

Presenter: Joe Kepley 2/9/12 SLIDE 1

Single event storage with separate storage for recurring events

Storage is bifurcated

All recurring events have to be checked on each pass

Complex queries

Presenter: Joe Kepley 2/9/12 SLIDE 2

Another option?

Presenter: Joe Kepley 2/9/12 SLIDE 3

Can we make it actually work?

Optimization Assumptions

In most applications, one-time events are the 80-90% case.

Typical event load is in the <10,000/year range.

Data is only queried across a given range. This month or year, not all future points.

Presenter: Joe Kepley 2/9/12 SLIDE 4

Needs work!

Translations

Date exceptions within a recurring rule

Time zone bugs/testing

Improvements to data model

http://github.com/blendinteractive/BlendCalendar

Presenter: Joe Kepley 2/9/12 SLIDE 4

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