Features

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Features of DAViCal are linked to features of CalDAV client

Comparison of CalDAV clients

Features\Clients	Evolution	Mozilla	Mulberry	Chandler	Cadaver	Kontact	iCal 3.0.1+
Handle Private Events	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	?	yes
Handle Confidential Events	yes	yes	yes	?	no	?	yes
Handle Alarms	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	yes	yes
Alarm per Calendar	yes	0.8	?	?	no	?	no
Free Busy	yes	0.7 or with external extension	?	?	no	?	Not with DAViCal (uses draft scheduling extensions)
Auto detect subscribable calendar		wip details	yes				3.0.1, but only your own calendars
Access Rights: UI to manipulate ACL		wip	yes, unsupported in DAViCal	?	?	?	yes, unsupported in DAViCal

legend

yes	feature implemented, and working (almost) perfectly
no	not available
wip	work in progress, something is already there but not completely working as expected
?	unknown
x.y.z	From Client version x.y.z
D x.y.z	From DAViCal version x.y.z

Contents 1 Comparison of CalDAV clients 2 legend 3 Feature Details 3.1 Handle Private Events 3.2 Handle Confidential Events 3.3 Handle Alarms 3.4 Alarm Per Calendar 3.5 Free Busy 4 General DAViCal Server Features 4.1 Multiple calendars per user 4.2 ACL 4.3 ICS Import 4.4 Supported DAV Methods 4.5 Alarms and TODO Handling 4.6 LDAP Authentication 4.7 SyncML synchronisation

Feature Details

Handle Private Events

The user has the ability to set the privacy of an event. If set to Private the event is hidden to all except: the Administrator, the users that have the Administer' right on its calendar, or the user himself. DAViCal is able to filter and returns no information when this situation appears

Handle Confidential Events

The user has the ability to set the privacy of an event. If set to Confidential the event is visible, but only information that the user is busy. This applies to all except the Administrator, the users that have the Administer' right on its calendar, or the user themselves. DAViCal is able to filter and returns only the information needed.

Handle Alarms

The user has the ability to set an alarm on events. In Mozilla Calendar the user can set an alarm but can also recognise alarms of all other calendars. DAViCal supports alarm filtering: if the user is the Administrator, the users that have the Administer' right on its calendar, or the user themselves, the user receives an alarm for the event, otherwise the full event will be created without an alarm.

Alarm Per Calendar

The calendar client offers a way to specify which one of the subscribed calendar can trigger an alarm.

Free Busy

With such a feature, the user, with its calendar client, can request the server to find free time for all their attendees.

The client should provide a specific view like this one

http://wiki.mozilla.org/images/e/e0/Wcap-freebusy.png

General DAViCal Server Features

Multiple calendars per user

The CalDAV specifications allowed for one user to have many calendars. A calendar in the specification is called a collection and has a path like a directory in a file system, for example: I can have 2 calendars "/max/work/" "/max/home/"

ACL

for more details : How Do Relationships Work and Improved Permissions

ICS Import

You have 2 ways for doing this in the web interface provided,

1. You can import in place an ics file that will replace a calendar store in the server for a specify user
2. You can import all ics files stored on a directory on the server into DAViCal for a specific user deducted from the ics file name.

You specify the path on the server and the path of the calendars newly created, for example: on my server I have the directory /ics_files_directory, I've got 2 ics files : /ics_files_directory/max.ics,/ics_files_directory/andrew.ics. I set ics_files_directory as the path on the server, and home for the newly created calendars. All ics files will be imported respectively in collections /max/home and /andrew/home

Supported DAV Methods

GET,HEAD,OPTIONS,PUT (target exists),PUT (no target exists),PROPPATCH,PROPFIND,DELETE,LOCK (target exists),LOCK (no target exists), MKCOL, MKCALENDAR,UNLOCK,REPORT,FREEBUSY for more details : Improved Permissions

Alarms and TODO Handling

DAViCal provides a way to not share alarms and todos of a calendar when the requester of the calendar is not the owner or does not have the 'Administer' right.

LDAP Authentication

for more details see LDAP Authentication

• when a user from the LDAP directory log in, and does not exist then DAViCal creates a new user or if they do exist updates the user if necessary (timestamp comparison)
• ability to sync LDAP directory to DAViCal : this operation do the following :
  1. check valid users in LDAP directory
  2. check users in DAViCal

     then

  3. if a user is present in DAViCal but not in LDAP, mark them as inactive in DAViCal
  4. if a user is present in LDAP but not in DAViCal, create the user in DAViCal
  5. if a user in present in LDAP and DAViCal, update the information in DAViCal

SyncML synchronisation

Quite finished !