Wish List Forum > General Calendar (SHIPPED)
I'd be willing to bet that more than half of startups today are getting their businesses rolling via Google apps (mail, calendar, docs, etc) or similar Cloud/Web 2/ Webworks services, while the rest are either ignoring sage advice or are just clueless - doomed either way. GOOG's already broken out Outlook sync api, so hit 2 birds with 1 stone!
A web-based service like yourselves should know better! So many of us came to you from MS Project anyway, what makes you think the same thing isn't happening on the email/calendar side?
Best,
TIM
Tim Wigton
Thanks for the input Tim.
When I tackle calendar integration, I'll make sure that we support all the major clients. It looks like just about every modern calendaring system supports the iCalendar format, so there is a good chance we'll target that. With that in mind we can hit a whole flock of birds with one stone (not that I enjoy harming birds, far from it).
Adam
For our teams, a calendar function within LP is becoming more of an immediate need and issue. Beyond support for calendar clients as mentioned above, here are some additional suggestions for handling the calendar within the LP interface:
1. Add a tab at the top labeled Calendar (maybe right after Overview) in both the workspace and Portals. Although as outlined below the appointment and tasks are very similar, if you bury the calendar in the plan tab, then it does not transfer as clean to the Portal view.
2. Have all the same filtering capabilities already available in the planning tab so a calendar view can be filtered across the workspace, to a client, project, or team members, etc.
3. Tasks and Milestones would appear, but a new data element for "Appointment" is needed. You already have several threads related to multiple people being assigned a task, so that may work here. However, there needs to be an appointment capability that also adds the "time" as a data field.
4. We need to create a meeting request, send to multiple participants, and track acceptance/decline/tentative.
5. With the users profile, the time of the meeting should automatically appear to the user in their home time zone.
6. With the addition of a time start and end, all the other aspects of a task work (Description, Detailed Notes, Links, Files, Discussions). The meeting agenda would be set within the Description/Detail Notes. Discussion before/during/after the meeting happen in the discussions section to document the meeting. Links and files are used to collect the relevant elements together for future reference.
I hope this helps with your development. Please let us know any updates or timeline when a calendar capability would be available.
Gary
Gary Huff
Gary, thanks for this thoughtful post - very helpful.
We follow an agile/incremental development methodology so you can expect that we will deliver features in smaller packages and we have calendar features coming in the next release.
Charles Seybold
Changed status to IN PROGRESS. New personal calender views will ship in mid-December '09. They will not have every feature suggested but they are a good start for people who think in terms of month grids.
We are curious to know if people would like iCal support on the new calendars.
Charles Seybold
+1 for calendar feature. However, I do not care whether you provide a user interface for the calendar. All I really want is the dynamic ical feed so tht I can use my own calendaring client (Google or Outlook) to overlay the liquid planner calendar with my own.
Matthew Quinlan
So glad the calendar is in progress. As the new Project Manager for our company, I'm still getting to know Liquid Planner and it is a huge drawback to me to not have a calendar and the function to include "pushed" alerts or reminders about when my projects are due. It takes a lot of time to hold my mouse in just the right place and review each flame icon alert in order to see what I need to follow up on with my team. So of course the other option is double-entering deadlines in my Entourage calendar, which again, is time consuming. An integrated calendar is key to me in project planning. Just wondering if there is an estimated finish date for the calendar...
Cherry Bayley
The personal calendar view has shipped. We have backlog project for a group calendar and we are working an API - iCal example for loading a task calendar into another system (i.e. Google Calendar).
Charles Seybold
Great work Charles. I absolutely love the ICS access because it provides me such visibility into the project. Two pieces of feedback here.
1. It would be great to have an ICS feed that was for the entire account (not just the personal feed) so we could see an overall corporate or group calendar.
2. It would be great if liquidplanner could provide an ICS link that did not require authentication so we could integrate into things like google calendar. You could require the credentials to be URL parameters on the HTTPS request if security were an issue. (I have written a small proxy that allows me to integrate my LiquidPlanner ICS calendar into Google Calendar but for those less technically inclined they have no such option).
$0.02 deposited.
Cheers!
-Quin'
Matthew Quinlan
@Adam anticipated these requests, we just have to give him some more time to work on it. I think his plan is to allow you to pull a calendar for any filter. If you want to look up the IDs for your workspace members, you can pull their calendars since you have access to them in the workspace already. Just look closely at the URL syntax.
We might be able to use obfuscated URLs for Google; I think Adam is looking at that.
Charles Seybold
If you want to pull another member of your workspace's calendar, you can tack on a "?person_id=N" to the url. Consider that undocumented though, and it might change sometime.
As for integration with Google... I'll probably look into their API and periodically push changes out to google calendars instead of providing an obfuscated URL.
Adam
Dec 9, 2008 12:54am
anuj.dhawan
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Is there a calendar function within LP? An actual day/week/month/year calendar that can be shared amongst a team to keep track of tasks that need to be done on a specific day in the future, e.g. calling a customer back.
The calendar would also have an alarm/reminder function for a specific time on the day a task is recorded, and would warn the owner of the task of its required completion.
Thanks
Dec 9, 2008 6:10am
Melinda
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We don’t currently have this feature, but this is a great suggestion. We have a few ideas around what something like this might look like once we get to it; your suggestions will be a great addition to the growing list.
Thanks for the post!
Mar 3, 2009 1:09am
msurowiec
1 post
I just signed up to LP and I agree with the calendar idea! I hope to see it soon.
Mar 27, 2009 5:12pm
whitney
1 post
calendar or Google calendar API, please.
May 13, 2009 9:54pm
prynncamm
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I agree. While I like the gantt chart format, would also like to be able to add things to a calendar like on Google Calendar that integrates with the gantt.
May 30, 2009 2:46pm
kbaturytski
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Yep, one more vote for having a calendar. Export to google calendar would be even more welcome!