Calendar Feature List

This page provides an update of the calendar feature list based on what we know as of April 2005 for discussion at the ChandlerTechnicalUpdateApril2005. This page is based off CalendarFeatureList2004 which we arrived collaboratively with CSG in April 2003.

Release code names for OSAF:

• Canoga 1.0 => the first release of Chandler
• Canoga 1.x => releases of Chandler before the higher ed release
• Westwood => a release of Chandler for higher education
• Pasadena => a future release of Chandler

New release nomenclature for OSAF:

• Kibble => first release of Chandler
• Kibble+ => incremental improvements of Chandler before the higher ed release
• Westwood => a release of Chandler for higher education
• Pasadena => a future release of Chandler

key to tables below

	indicates feature already has an implementation in current build
Red color	indicates a change from plan worthy of discussion
Feature priorites for higher education:	(as of 4/03)
S	Showstopper, couldn't deploy without this feature
H	High, important but could live without it in the first release
M	Medium
L	Low, not especially interesting to us

Individual Calendaring Requirements

Please don't take this list as the literal truth. See StandardDisclaimer for more details.

feature	osaf plan 4/03	osaf update 4/05	higher ed priority
_Events, Tasks, and Notes_
Events: add, update, delete, view personal events	Canoga	Kibble	S
Events: multiple events can occupy the same time slot	Canoga	Kibble	S
Events: events can have references to other items (emails, contacts, etc.)	Canoga	Supported as Stamping, no contact support	H
Events: events can have external attachments (meeting agendas, docs)	Canoga 1.x	Kibble	H
Events: events can have attributes for location, contacts, etc.	Canoga	Kibble (contacts aren't first class items)	S
Tasks: add, update, delete, view personal tasks	Canoga	Kibble	H
Tasks: manage task lists	Canoga	Kibble	H
Notes: add, update, delete, view personal notes	Canoga	Kibble	M
_Reminders, alarms, notifications_
Reminders: add, update, delete, view personal reminders	Canoga	Kibble	H
Reminders: reminders can be assocated with notes, events, tasks	Canoga	Kibble	H
Reminders: email notification	Canoga	Kibble (event will tickle back into Inbox/All)	H
Reminders: dialog notification, sound notification	Canoga	Kibble	H
Reminders: system specific notification (xp system tray, os x doc)	Canoga 1.x	Kibble+	M
Reminders: IM notification	Pasadena	Pasadena	H
_Recurrence_
Recurring meetings: add, update, delete, view recurring meetings	Canoga	Kibble	S
Recurring meetings: iCalendar compliance	Canoga 1.x	Kibble	S
Recurring meetings: infinitely recurring meetings	Canoga	Kibble	M
_Views, filtering, search_
Views: Week, day, month formats	Canoga	Kibble	S
Views: Display tasks, events, any item with date fields in views	Canoga	Kibble	H
Views: Custom views, custom queries	Canoga	? (not Kibble)	H
Views: Quick filtering in views	Canoga	? (not Kibble)	M
Search: full text search	Canoga	Kibble	H
_Printing_
Printing: daily, weekly, monthly	Canoga	Kibble	S
Printing: biweekly, trifold, other	Westwood	Westwood	H
_Other_
Context sensitive help: balloon help, tooltips	Pasadena	Pasadena	M
Drag and drop	Canoga	Kibble	H
Keyboard equivalents	Canoga	Kibble	H

Group Calendaring Requirements

feature	osaf plan 4/03	osaf update 4/05	higher ed priority
_Groups and Users_
Create and manage groups	Canoga	Westwood	S
Discovery of other Chandler users in one's workgroup	Canoga	Westwood	S
Discovery of other Chandler users in an organization	Westwood	Westwood	S
Access rights: Control read/write access to calendar, event/item, or attribute	Canoga	Kibble, exploring tickets as a lightweight means for ACL in 0.6	S
Access rights: CAPCalDAV style access rights	Westwood	Kibble	S
_Publish and Subscribe_
Publish/share calendar data to workgroup	Canoga	Kibble	S
View shared calendar in Chandler client	Canoga	Kibble	S
Overlay shared calendar on personal calendar in Chandler client	Canoga	Kibble	H
View subscribed calendar in Chandler client	Canoga	Kibble	H
Overlay subscribed calendar on another calendar	Canoga	Kibble	H
Automatically pick up subscription changes	Canoga	Kibble	H
Remote query/search of calendar data	Canoga 1.x	?	H
_Scheduling_
Send invitation from Chandler (no accept/reject	Canoga	Kibble	S
Invite/accept meeting invitations from Chandler (free busy available)	Canoga 1.x	Kibble	S
Invite/accept meeting invitations via iTIP/iMip/CalDAV (no free busy)	Canoga	Kibble(+)	S
Invite/accept meeting invitations via iTIP/CAPCalDAV (free busy available)	Westwood	Kibble(+)	S
Assign/accept task assignments from workgroup, Chandler users	Westwood	Westwood	H
Assign/accept task assignments via iTIP/iMIP	Westwood	Westwood	H
Assign/accept task assignments via iTIP/CAP	Westwood	Westwood	H
Notify meeting initiator when attendee cancels	Canoga 1.x	Westwood	S
Notify meeting initiator when recurring meeting is nearing last event	Westwood	Westwood	S
Room/resource scheduling	Westwood	Westwood	H
Innovative scheduling workflows, framework	Canoga 1.x	Pasadena
_Delegation/Designation_
Designates can send email on behalf of individual	Westwood	Westwood	S
Designates can organize events/meetings on behalf of someone	Westwood	Westwood	S
Designates recieve copies of events/meeting related notifications	Westwood	Westwood	S
Add and remove designates	Westwood	Westwood	S
Assign permissions to designates: none, reviewer, author, editor	Westwood	Westwood	S
Allow a mailing list to be a designate	Westwood	Westwood	H

Interoperability Requirements

feature	osaf plan 4/03	osaf update 4/05	higher ed priority
_Import/Export_
Import/Export iCalendar	Canoga	Kibble	S
Import/Export Outlook	Canoga 1.x	Kibble+	H
_iCalendar_
Schema for events, tasks, recurrence, reminders "equivalent" to iCalendar	Canoga	Kibble	S
Publish calendar data to servers hosting iCalendar files, ala Apple and Mozilla	Canoga 1.x	Kibble	H
CAPCalDAV
Common scheduling with Corporate Time, others via CAP	Westwood	Westwood	H
Chandler as CAPCalDAV client, calendar data stored on CAPCalDAV server	Westwood	Kibble	S
_Other calendars_
UW Web calendar	Westwood	for discussion	H
Common scheduling with Corporate Time via Corporate Time API	Westwood	Some CalDAV support Kibble	H
_PDA_
Palm sync	Westwood	exploring CalDAV client for PDAs	S
Pocket PC sync	Westwood	exploring CalDAV client for PDAs	M
Chandler PDA client	Pasadena	exploring CalDAV client for PDAs	H
_Web Client_
Web access to calendar	Westwood	for discussion	H