Calendar Software? (1 Viewer)

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?

You could try this; its still in development but pretty usable. A good free option to try before you spend any money ;-)

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird.html

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.