One of my teachers asked my today if he could upload a text file to his calendar to add lots of activities. Good idea, I think, but is this possible?
Thanks,
Art
Sorry Art, but right now it isn't. There are some plans for the future, but the import/export formats to be supported are an open question. Of course, someone else might decide to give it a go sooner than I can, so don't take my word for it! 
Jon
Okay, I will let him know it's not possible yet.
Thanks,
Art
Thanks,
Art
There has been a feature request for this for quite some time. You can subscribe there to be automatically notified of any activity, but I cannot say when that will be.
Martin usually provides a nice link to here in when replying to such questions, so I will follow in his footsteps.
Jon
Martin usually provides a nice link to here in when replying to such questions, so I will follow in his footsteps.
Jon
Art, where would the text file come from? Would the teacher write it by hand in notepad, for example? What I'm driving for is of course that what would the format of the text file be?
I wrote a very small (crude and ugly) script to import WebCT calendar events to Moodle, but it has no interface and has problems with date and time formats, so it requires "technical assistance".
I wrote a very small (crude and ugly) script to import WebCT calendar events to Moodle, but it has no interface and has problems with date and time formats, so it requires "technical assistance".
Along the same lines, a place to upload text files... and support for moodle/ plain text/ html/ wiki formatting in the text area for the cal...
Dennis
Dennis
Has there been any developrent in this area? I'd be interested.
I uploaded all of our school events straight into the database in phpmyadmin. Only tricky bit was converting all of the date/times to the Unix format. Did it all in an Excel file and exported to csv. A faff but only needed once a year.
I'll give further details (and the Excel file) if interested.
I'll give further details (and the Excel file) if interested.
I'd love to hear the details on this!
Could you post as an attachment?
Could you post as an attachment?
Excel file includes the calendar data imported from our School Management system (SIMs), a sheet that I copied bits of this into which also converts date/time, duration and a timestamp (a required? field in the db) to the Unix format (thanks, Wikipedia) and a sheet of instructions that I wrote for the next time I have to do this process (July).
Hope this helps. Any queries, let me know.
Hope this helps. Any queries, let me know.
Hi Chris,
I'm really interested too, especially as I too need to get the calendar data out of SIMS.
Did you mean to attach the excel file? Because it's not there.
Please would you be kind enough to email it if it's too big to be attached here?
cheers
Mandy
I'm really interested too, especially as I too need to get the calendar data out of SIMS.
Did you mean to attach the excel file? Because it's not there.
Please would you be kind enough to email it if it's too big to be attached here?
cheers
Mandy
moral of story - don't copy your formulas down endless rows (way over what you'll need) otherwise your filesize exceeds 100kb
I am wodering, is there a way for the data from the calendar to be listed at a separate url in a frame? Or, can the data from the calendar be exported. Perhaps it is explained here that it is not possible yet, but checking. Thank you for your time in advance.