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4. Connect Daily supports displaying calendar events in list format If you are concerned about Section 508 compatibility you should include a link to this view for your users The image below shows the default List View If you want you can configure Connect Daily to display the event details in line To do this go to Edit Preferences and set the option for Display Event Detail In Week View and List View To set this option for usets who are not logged in go to Home Setup Public Calendar Viewing and check the option 39 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation You can target this page directly by using ViewList html as the URL Secure te 2013 11 05 S EVELES 2013 12 05 Go More Select View v AlEvents Tuesday November 5 2013 5 30PM Lamb of God w Killswitch Engage amp share Eve http concerts livenation com Lamb of God tickets artist 8 Location Fillmore Auditorium 1510 Clarkson Street Denver CO 80218 Map 7 00PM NuggetsvsSanAntonio amp D sire Bye https www facebook com DenverNuggets Contact http www nba com nuggets schedule 2013 Location Pepsi Center 1000 Chopper Cir Denver CO 80204 Map Chomp Chomp Attack Dot Dot Curve amp SHARE Hive http www theorientaltheater com event 149332 Location Oriental Theater 4335 W 44th Ave Denver CO 80212 Map Planner View The planner view of Connect Daily allows you to see you
5. For Anonymous Users they should click on the Alarm Clock icon while viewing an event Note Notification about the added event will be sent one hour after the event is added or if the event requires approval after the event 1s approved See Also Email Notifications and Reminders sec Notifications and Reminders on page 99 Tutorials on page 13 How can get a notification when an event is changed The first step is to create a Notification Request so that you re notified when an event is created Then in System Configuration Email set the option for Re Process Notification Requests on Item change to Yes Once this option is set all Notification Requests will be rechecked when an event is edited 244 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Frequently Asked Questions Note To prevent multiple notifications there is a one hour delay between the time an event is edited and the time that the notification messages are sent out See Also Email Notifications and Reminders sec Notifications and Reminders on page 99 EMail Configuration on page 127 My users are complaining about getting too many Emails what do do People who have User Accounts If you re using Approvals Connect Daily automatically sends out notification messages when an event needs approval or is approved Your Users can cut down on messages by setting their User preferences Have each User go to Edit Preferences Then have them
6. gt Included The Events in this Calendar will be displayed as part of the Calendar that you are editing The title will be displayed with no modification gt Included Calendar Title The Events from this Calendar will be displayed as part of the Calendar you are editing but they will be prefixed with the name of the parent Calendar For example a corporation has Calendars for 3 departments The master Calendar includes each departmental Calendar in it with the option set to Calendar Title The Accounting department adds a new Event called Picnic When the Accounting calendar is viewed the title will be Picnic When the Event is viewed as part of the master Calendar the title will be Accounting Picnic Itis important to remember that individual privacy options for the Event can override this setting This feature is affected by the system wide setting for ala carte calendar inclusion For more information refer to the help section on How Events Are Included On Calendars on page 144 Recurring Imports Refer to the section on Periodic Event Import on page 96 32 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Add Calendar Wizard The Add Calendar Wizard enables the User to easily add a calendar to your Connect Daily Web Calendar system and assign calendar permissions at the same time Calendar Name this is the name of the calendar that Users will see Included Calendars these are other c
7. AJAX is an acronym that stands for Asynchronous Javascript and XML It s a way of creating web pages that dynamically update without forcing a page reload 269 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Reference The way it usually works is that a User will click on a link on a page triggering some Javascript That Javascript will then connect to a server and retrieve data usually in XML format When the data is returned more Javascript takes that data formats it and places it on the web page As mentioned above the advantage of using Ajax is that it can happen without a page reload giving the illusion of faster operation The disadvantage of Ajax is that it requires the use of JavaScript in the page and this makes it more difficult to test and debug your web pages Recommended Reading Ajax for Dummies Steve Holzner PHD Wiley Publishing Inc Indianapolis Indiana ISBN 0 471 78597 0 Mastering Ajax Bret McLaughlin IBM Developer Works Technical Library Index DNS Domain Name Service When you use a web browser on the internet you type in the name of the site you want to visit For example www mhsoftware com DNS converts the computer name into an address that your request can be delivered to In order for a computer name to resolve the DNS administrator must create a mapping entry that contains the host name of the computer and the address of this computer If the host name is not configured by a DNS administrat
8. Edit Resource Type Vehicle LE amp Ea ti 2 ID 3 Description Vehicle Parent Type None Attributes Name Caption Data Type Option Values radio select or dropdown Passengers Max Passengers Whole Number v Remove Add Attribute Last Updated May 1 2014 12 06 23 PM MDT Audit Trail Save Changes Manage Security Adding and Editing Resources Resources are things that people use for events Some examples would be Rooms Projectors Vehicles etc Connect Daily provides the ability to schedule Resources with Automatic Conflict Detection For general information on Resource Management watch the Resource Management Tutorial http www mhsottware com tutorials ResourceManagement and read Using Resource Management on page 60 Tip If you will not be using Resources you can disable this feature in the System Configuration screen To add a Resource from the main menu choose EDIT RESOURCE At the end of the list you should see a button labeled Add Resource If the button is not displayed then you do not have sufficient privilege to Add Edit Resources Types Contact your system administrator When you add a Resource you can select who can approve usage of the Resource Each Resource can have from 0 to many approvers If a Resource has no approvers then no approvals are required If a Resource has approvers whenever a calendar User adds an Event using that Resource an EMail notification is sent to each
9. gt Ifthe short name is filled in then included Events from this Calendar will be displayed as Short Name Event Tide Calendar Options gt Don t Allow Event Overlaps By default Connect Daily does not prevent two Events that overlap from being added to a Calendar If you check this option Connect Daily will check for overlapping events and prevent creation of ovetlaps gt All day Events Conflict This option is used with the setting above If this option is selected all day events will conflict with other events 31 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Don tinclude rollups in iCal RSS Export If this option is selected rolled up Calendars will not be included in Events exported via iCal or RSS For example you have a hockey team calendar that includes a standard US Holidays calendar People subscribing to this calendar will probably not want to see the US Holidays included in the feed By setting this option you will prevent these rollups from being included Default Event Type When a new event is created this is the default type for that event Rollup Busy Label This is the format to use when an event from this Calendar is rolled up into another Calendar and the individual event privacy option is Rollups Show Busy Default Privacy The privacy option that will be used for new Calendar events Header and Footer File These files customize the appearance of the Calendar Note that
10. Enable Disable IFrame Calendar Widgets in Setup Public Calendar Viewing You can still have Frame Calendar widgets but you have to enable manually copy the files into the WAR file before deploying it Is there any obligation if do the hosted trial No We want you to try out our service and make sure that it meets your needs You are under no obligation to purchase and you will not be asked for any billing information or automatically billed If you decide that it does not meet your needs you don t have to cancel the trial Your feedback is valuable to us so we would like to know why our software doesn t meet your needs If you would take the time to EMail us at sales at mhsoftware com we would greatly appreciate it Can I have some calendars the public can see and others they cannot Yes Connect Daily has a comprehensive security system that gives you control over who can see which calendars The easiest way to control this is to go to the Setup Public Calendar Viewing on page 33 screen and use the mover to control what calendars are visible to the public Can I give the general public a way to add events To configure this go to the Setup Public Calendar Viewing on page 33 screen and check the option for Can the public add events to the calendar Once you ve done this you ll still need to add a link to the custom header to give the users a way of adding the events To do this go to the Edit Custom Header screen see E
11. Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Frequently Asked Questions I m having problems running my servlet engine as a service The most likely issue is that Java is not working Correctly Uninstall and re install java If the issue does not resolve itself contact technical support When add new records users calendars etc get an error This is caused by not properly setting the Selected database class to the correct value for your installation Using the menu choose SYSTEM CONFIGURATION and click on the link for DATABASE CONFIGURATION Change the database type dropdown to match the one you are using Once you have fixed this issue and tested adding a new Item run the Make Super User Screen on page 85 to repair permissions for any Items that you added License Key Issues Send Me A License Key Connect Daily uses information from your computer to create a License Key that is unique In order to generate this key you must use the key request feature from an installed version of Connect Daily To request a key 1 Login to Connect Daily If you get a Demonstration Expired message restart Connect Daily and login 2 From the menu choose SYSTEM CONFIGURATION 3 Click on the button labeled Request License Key at the bottom of the page 4 Enter yout organization name and EMail address in the appropriate fields 5 Click on the button labeled Request License Key If the request is successful a message will be d
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13. localhost 5432 calendar Refer to your database documentation for information on your database Your unique License Key is based in part on your JDBC connection string If you change your JDBC connection you will need to request a new License Key If desired you can use JNDI for your connection To do this specify a JDBCConnectString with your JNDI connection name For example If your JNDI variable name is jdbe ConnectDaily then the configuration entry should be JDBCConnectString JNDIN jdbc ConnectDaily Essentially prefix your JNDI variable entry name with JNDI JNDI can be difficult to configure There are often complex dependency and class path issues involved in configuring it Connect Daily has a built in connection pooling mechanism that it uses You should not use JNDI unless your environment requires it Please consult your database and application server documentation for information on configuring JNDI connections Please note that troubleshooting JNDI connections is not supported JDBCUserID SOL Database User ID Your unique License Key is based in part on your JDBC User ID If you change your JDBC User ID you will need to request a new License Key JDBCPassword SQL Database Password 203 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading Parameter Description DBObjectClass Helper class for DB Functions You must set this to the appropriate entry
14. to your configuration properties file If you re running the hosted version copy and paste the line into the Import License Data screen By creating a custom icons file you do not have to worry about a future upgrade overwriting the icons or the icon list file Edit the custom icons properties file replacing the names of the default icons with the names of the icons you want to use Upload or copy the custom icons properties file to the WEB INF classes directory for your Connect Daily installation Setting Different Colors for Events Like many other web calendars Connect Daily supports colorizing events Unlike other applications the system administrator controls this so that calendars maintain a professional appearance For information on using this feature refer to Item Style Setup on page 136 Disabling Features If desired the following features can be disabled Feature EMail reminders for anonymous calendar viewers File attachments to events iCal Export PDA Sync Program Preferences icon for anonymous calendar viewers Select View Dropdown Resources Where to Disable System Security Users select GUEST User and uncheck the global security option for System Create or edit event reminders and notification requests System Configuration Attachments System Configuration Sync Export Options System Configuration Sync Export Options System Security Users select GUEST User an
15. Authentication Methods Provider Requirements Benefits Drawbacks Type Plain Text Database Users can have passwords Least secure Passwords Password sent via EMail are visible in the database If Users reuse passwords across applications this can be an issue MD5 Hash Database More secute Not invulnerable DEFAULT Passwords stored in database susceptible to dictionary attack See Implementation Notes on the MD5Sum Authenticator see Implementation Notes on MD5 Authenticator on page 222 221 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading Provider Requirements Benefits Drawbacks Type Cookie Based External Web Users can signin to one Somewhat complicated Single Signon Application web application and then to configure Authenticator be transparently logged into Connect Daily LDAP LDAP directory Centralized password More complex to Authentication repository User has only configure and setup NDS OpenLDAP one password for network etc and application Optionally directory can be used to control application security LDAP Active Windows 2000 Server Same as LDAP Same as LDAP Directory or higher w Active Authentication Directory MS Certificate Authority Installed Container Authentication Single Sign on between Authentication Services provided by applications servlet container or Web Server If your orga
16. If the request fails the system will display instructions asking you to send the key request file to us via Email Send the key request file to keyrequest a mhsoftwate com The Connect Daily License Key uses information from your installation to generate a unique License Key The elements used are The name of the computer the software is installed on gt The database configuration information gt The number of calendars licensed gt The expiration date for the User s maintenance agreement For information on this refer to Checking Upgrade Eligibility on page 235 If 1 Anyone of the License Key elements including the host name changes 2 The build date is after the License Key s UpdateExpirationDate see Checking Upgrade Eligibility on page 235 3 The number of calendars present in the system exceeds the number of calendars the license is for The key 1s invalidated and will have to be regenerated If you copy a License Key from one machine to another it will not work The key request operation attempts to retrieve an HTML web page from MH Software Inc s web server This HTML request can fail if your network blocks direct access to the web This is pretty common in larger otganizations If the HTML request is successful the key information is put in the form and the form is posted This generates an EMail to us with the information we need to generate a key If this fails the software writes a key request fi
17. It may be helpful to print this topic and check the steps off as you work 1 Go to the site Attp www hebcal com 2 Click on the button Customize your calendar neat the top of the page in the left most column 3 Set the year and month as desired We recommend setting the month for Entire Year 4 Ifyou want candle lighting times enter your zip code In the candle lighting times section 5 If you don t want Havdalah times enter 0 in the box for Havdalah minutes past sundown 6 Check the appropriate options in the Include Events and Other Options sections 7 Click on the button Create Calendar You should now see a generated calendar 267 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Reference 8 At the top of the generated calendar page click on the Download button 9 Click on Apple iCal Mac OS X then click on the Download button Save the file to your desktop Name the file something like HolidaysYY YY ics 10 Now login to Connect Daily as an Administrator 11 From the menu choose View Import Import ICal File 12 Select the calendar to bring the events into Set the default type for the new events 13 Leave Import Event Times checked 14 Leave URL blank and click on the browse button for File Name Select the file you created above 15 Finally click on the import button You ll see a bunch of messages about things that were ignored and then the number of events that were imported When you go
18. Yes Connect Daily has a comprehensive security system that gives you control over who can see which calendars The easiest way to control this is to go to the Setup Public Calendar Viewing on page 33 screen and use the mover to control what calendars are visible to the public When the public tries to view my calendar they get a login screen If you want the public to be able to view calendars without logging in go to the Setup Public Calendar Viewing screen sce Setup Public Calendar Viewing on page 33 I m the system administrator but there are some calendars can t edit How do fix this Use the Make Super User Screen on page 85 located under SYSTEM SECURITY on the menu How do I view calendars without being logged in By default if you call the View html page you can view the calendar without being logged in If you re taken to a login screen you can use the Setup Public Calendar Viewing on page 33 screen to enable public calendar viewing How do I limit calendar viewing to people who are logged in In the SYSTEM CONFIGURATION SECURITY screen delete the PUBLIC USER NAME value and click on SAVE CHANGES 257 WB Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Frequently Asked Questions How can limit what calendars the public can see The simplest way to do this is to go to the Setup Public Calendar Viewing Screen sce Setup Public Calendar Viewing on page 33 See Also Permissions for Anonymous User
19. approver The Resource Planner view see Planner View on page 40 displayed for a specific Resource shows that Resource for a period When adding Resources keep the following things in mind You can have multiple people who have approval authority over the Resource You can t delete a Resource that is used by calendar events You must remove all events using that Resource before it can be deleted If you want to keep people from using a Resource for new events you can remove the Use This Resource for events permission from Users and Groups 27 W Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation gt Ifa Resource is marked as shared then multiple events can use that Resource at the same time If it is not marked as a shared Resource then only one event at a time will be able to use the Resource gt Ifyou have a non calendar User that you always want to receive a CC copy of a Resource usage add them to the system and make them an approver All Approvers are CC d via EMail when a request is made and again when it is approved or denied The section below contains information on Resource fields Resource Type This is the general category the Resource falls into Examples would be Vehicle Facility A V equipment Staff etc See Adding and Editing Resource Types on page 26 Name This is the displayed name of the Resource Each name must be unique Location If you have locations enabled you can specify the loc
20. gt and many others The RFC for iCal is available from http www ietf org rfc rfc5545 txt The link on the Event Detail screen is a single occurrence export for a specific event This can be used to directly import a single occurrence into any iCAL compliant package like Microsoft Outlook The link from the Calendar View pages exports all events in an iCal file Many clients like Apple iCal KOrganizer Mozilla Calendar and others can read these files Enable AddThis Social Networking Support If this option is set to yes then the program will display links to add events to social networking sites This includes sites like Facebook Twitter and Digg The default implementation uses addthis com s widget If you want you can enable this feature and then edit the custom lt language gt AddThis html file to replace the implementation with a different one RSS 2 0 Export Default of Days to Export If the dayspan argument is not passed to the RSS processor this is the number of days to export by default For information about the RSS processor refer to RSS Export on page 69 RSS 2 0 Export Default Max Items to Export The RSS export module can limit how many entries are exported This lets you specify that default number of items It is similar to the maxcount URL argument 130 B6 Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation System Configuration Resources Disable Resource Management Selecting t
21. make the text this color Calendar Grid and Border using the color palette on the right choose the color you wish for the day grid and border of your calendar Current Day Border using the color palette on the right choose the color you wish for the border of the current day of the month Edit Custom Header The Edit Custom Header page is a quick way to start customizing the appearance of your Connect Daily public calendar to match your website This is helpful because it bypasses the need for any knowledge of HTML Remember the header is only visible by those not logged into the calendar Header Layout click the button that illustrates the layout you prefer for your header Organization Name this is the name of your organization Image Name or URL this is the file name or URL of the image you wish to use in your header file name example mylogo jpg URL example http www mywebsite com images mylogo jpg Using the Browse button select your image file from your computer s directory Alt Text for Image this is an alternative text description for your image to be displayed by the browser when the image is not visible This is essential for text only browsers The Alt text will most likely be the name of your organization or will offer information about your organization Alt example Vacation Condo Scheduling When a User Clicks on the Logo or Organization Name Take Them to This URL enter the URL of the web
22. that points to yourdomain mhsoftware com This is critical After you create the virtual host name go to System Configuration System and edit the value for URL base to be calendar yourdomain ore Test the web page by opening the URL calendar yourdomain org in a browser If it doesn t work contact MH Software Inc See Also Creating a CNAME or Al as for Your Calendar on page 154 Generate the IFRAME Tag Generate the IFRAME tag and insert it into your containing page The simplest way to do this is to use the Web Site Integration Wizard see Web Site Integration on page 167 Once the IFRAME tag is generated copy and paste it into the containing page Edit userHeader html Edit the custom header used by your calendar Normally this is custom en userHeader html Add the following script to your page Change the domain name from yourdomain org to the name of your domain script SRC scripts formchange js type text javascript gt lt script gt script document domain yourdomain org attachEventListener document body load loadfunc true function loadfunc parent alertsize document body scrollHeight lt script gt Add Javascript to Containing Page Directly above the IFRAME tags in the containing page insert the following Javascript Change the domain name from yourdomain org to the name of your domain 183 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Web Site Int
23. this screen you will see a button labeled Import License Data Click _ on this button Paste the strings below into the edit box labeled License File Contents and click on the button Import License Data button Thu May 04 14 21 51 MDT 2006 Sync LicenseKey 302CO02147CEG1A6BZ AFFFCBO7E7B9122DS5F13FBC7F2064C40214518 F55A38FG812B54DB71C6A899662BZ 75DFGAB7F LicenseKey 302kE02150089F688ECZZGED33F614BE6CZ2B4614AFBG4C940850215009357 12DB076787CD749CBCA4CFSO0FCS9C37ZD370E9 CustomerName MH Software Inc Development LicensedCalendars 1 UpdateExpirationDate 2007 05 05 Database Configuration This screen contains options for configuring the database connection for your system The button for SQL Command Windows displays a utility program to allow you to execute arbitrary SQL statements against the database The definitive reference for configuring the database is configuration propetties on page 202 and SQL Database Installation Instructions sce SQL Database Setup on page 201 125 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Database Type This dropdown allows you to set the database type you ate using It is very important this value be set to the correct value for your installation Failure to set this option correctly will result in added records that cannot be edited JDBC Driver Class This is the class name for your JDBC Driver The class name will generally be something like com company j
24. whom you want to grant permissions from the dropdown and click the Submit button If you choose a Group all members of the Group will have any individually assigned permissions removed Manage Security Wizard The Manage Security Wizard is a tool to assign permissions to many Objects to one or more Users and Groups at the same time It is a lot like the Manage Security Dialog except it will work on multiple Objects and Users or Groups at the same time To access the Manage Security Wizard choose SYSTEM SECURITY MANAGE SECURITY WIZARD from the menu Step 1 Select the Users and Groups When you first enter the screen you select the users and groups you want to apply permissions to 85 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation If you select a group and a user and the user is a member of the group then no permissions will be assigned to the user because they would be unnecessaty Manage Security Wizard Step 1 of 3 Move the users or groups you want to give permissions to from the available box to the selected box Available Users or Groups Selected Users or Groups Groups Admins Approvers rm Users m Viewers z Users Demo User Ls Guest User for Public Calendars Previous Step 2 Select the Items to Change Security for First select the type of Object you want to manage secutity for Object Types ate gt Calendars gt Resource Groups gt Resource Types gt Res
25. 08 00 gt RFC 5545 iCalendar e g 20080711T123400 Once you ve completed the field mapping click on the Finish button RSS Import Title title Event Start pubDate M Event End M Description description Event Type category X Contact Name M Contact Info author X Location cdaily location X Addl Info URL link X Item Globally Unique ID guid See Also Periodic Event Import Periodic Event Import When you use any of the import event screens in Connect Daily you have the option to Periodically refresh the calendar with this data If you check this option a permanent link is made for the import URL and the calendar A calendar can have Periodic Event Import links from as many data sources as you would like 96 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation By default the import will be re executed every 24 hours To view or edit the import links you have created for a calendar go to Edit Calendars Click on the pencil icon to the left of the calendar Towards the bottom of the page you should see the Recurring Imports section Expand the section by clicking on the icon URL https www google com calendar ical 6sso485k2eul6vbcpr7 pqbvb00 group calendar google com public basic ics Enabled 4 Import Interval Daily X Defaults Type ical Last Imported Nov 5 2013 2 04 PM M 1 events were imported to the calendar m calendar go v 116vbcpr7pqbvb00 group Delete
26. 22 27 73 228 229 236 Jser Fields 111 C CC ane SGG User Preferences 23 27 41 54 87 132 137 188 251 262 Users and Groups 79 81 Using Resource Management 25 49 58 78 131 Using the Hosted Version 155 V View Seatch 40 42 Viewing Calendars 36 Virtual Host 137 156 274 277 Virtual Host Mapping 137 Virtual Host Names 137 156 277 W Web Site Integration 156 161 169 185 Web Site Integration Overview 169 Weekends disabling display 133 Windows Integrated Authentication 237 WordPress Plugin 173 X XML Export 67 Index
27. 26 34 49 134 EMail 52 97 127 136 Email Addtess Confirmation Message 103 Email Address Reconfirm Message 108 EMail Configuration 97 127 249 Email FAQ 248 Episcopal Liturgical Calendar 272 Event Add No Approval Required Message 104 Event Added Event Creator Message 104 Event Added Approval Required Message 103 Event Approval Deferred Message 104 Event Approval Denied Message 105 Event Approved Message 103 Event Change Notification Message 106 Event Created Notification Message 106 Event Deleted Message 105 Event Deleted Notification Message 107 Index Event Edited Re Approval NOT Required Message 105 Event Edited Re Approval Required Message 105 Event Reminder Message 107 Event Type 33 41 77 118 136 Event Types Resource Types Resource Groups Permissions 77 81 85 Example Security Configuration 1 A Public School 73 Example Security Configuration 2 A Corporate Sales Organization 74 Excel Export 63 Exceptions 56 Exporting Data 63 F Facebook 129 139 Facebook and Twitter 139 Features disabling 162 File Attachments 51 117 File Transfer Utility 80 100 155 166 Filtering on Multiple Options 63 67 70 71 178 Frames 183 187 Frequently Asked Questions 243 Frequently Asked Questions About the WordPress Calendar Plugin 182 FTP 155 G General FAQ 251 General Fields 46 Glossaty of Terms 273 Google
28. 271 Appendix C Importing Religious Holiday Calendars 271 Appendix D Importing Data From Connect Daily Into Google Calendar 64 273 Approving Events 46 47 54 Approving Resource Usage 59 Assigning Resources to an Event 50 58 Attachments 51 117 118 Audit Trail 117 Authentication Architecture 23 131 225 Automatically Creating Users 132 229 230 236 237 238 Auto Sizing the IFRAME 185 B Backing Up Your Calendar 217 270 Bulk Exception Add 56 110 275 C Calendar Display Options 21 181 184 190 191 263 Calendar License 122 Calendar Permissions 75 80 85 Calendars 29 63 75 Cascading Style Sheets 30 143 161 169 Change Colors Screen 121 156 161 163 186 Change Comments 53 Changing Appearance 156 Changing Passwords 23 Character Sets 267 Checking Upgrade Eligibility 239 260 Client Configuration 203 Clustering 125 216 259 CNAME 156 274 Coloring events 33 118 136 Coloring Events by Item Type 182 Comma Separated Value CSV 63 252 Common Pre sales Questions 245 Commonly Asked Questions About Recurring Events 57 Commonly Asked Questions About Security 86 Configuration 117 204 206 configuration properties 125 206 242 257 270 Configure the Application Server 214 Configuring Active Directory Authentication 228 229 Configuring Container Authentication 20 236 262 Configuring LDAP Authenticat
29. 72 Security Questions 261 Index Server Configuration 203 Server Side Includes 190 Servlet 198 277 Setting Different Colors for Events 162 Setting up a Social Media Account for Connect Daily 139 Setting Up Connect Daily for Resource Management 58 Setup and Teardown Events 49 61 246 Setup Public Calendar Viewing 31 87 169 184 247 251 252 255 261 262 Single Sign On 225 236 Site Help 122 167 SMS Text Message Reminders 28 99 145 Software Requirements 197 257 SQL Command Execution 126 SOL Database 197 SQL Database Setup 125 204 205 206 270 SQL Database Setup Overview 205 Step 1 Select the Users and Groups 83 Step 2 Select the Items to Change Security for 84 Step 3 Select the Permissions to Assign 85 Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere Configuration 212 Sync Export Options 129 System 49 133 144 System Configuration Resources 58 61 131 System Utilities 117 System Wide Permissions 22 23 79 T TARGET BLANK HREF to Open New Window 190 Text Message 145 Time Input 135 Time Zone Support 27 46 135 162 Translation 267 Tutorials 11 13 155 248 250 Twitter 129 139 iem ndo 96 npacking the Application Files 205 pgrading 239 pgrading Connect Daily Web Calendar Software e 240 pgrading from version 3 3 x to 4 0 0 240 Jploading Files to Our Server 155 Jsage Report 43 Jser Accounts
30. Calendar Display Options M 189 Installation and Upgrading MENS CANNEL OH vee ss a niae EUR EE EUEEREE E E EA EA CN EGETELSRNE UE RR EHE EUIS ETE CRUISE TEES ERI OE E ERE EAR Software Requirements Hardware Requirements M Tastallatt n Ovetyie wi eiocieni etie oboe edita RS n EN E E e SESSA La OSE AE SE OR E ENES E AEA Pe ee RU Unpacking the Application Files m a SQL Database Setup Running the Com yer stn asad ss d88 d25 0asacsdssedazsassstociacsacadsasessesstasvssasedesdossacandassasescoasadcacnantansdetindesdesdasescessznsieeasesessaaiguncdntincy Configure the Application Server Bua Backing Up Your Calendar s Integrating Microsoft IIS with Connect Daily site Authentication Architectute uini eiie aret seiis ni Sa a eA oaa ette ftii beoe ce ide ote Ri OYE E Wenn SQ User Name Formats nu Settings Releten6e cene tu eengennuentni deat nte Anette Aud Ae ATO RERNE NEI luci Checking Uperade Blieibility cierra rrt re tecto enciende rte cte E pde den ed es t d vx eee pete deg ete ud License Upgrades ds us s T Upgrading Connect Daily Web Calendar Softwate
31. D ata sccsessesesssscaseoesossevensesvoveasevssonyssonses tusssvoss nbswonsesbsvosseossonussessesptieseresys 90 Notifications and Reminders aecenas 99 Advanced Editing Features iet retten teret tbtoe ta ttkte ton tetas to tesa ria 110 Iter Last Screen onte eem nme ne ra dna o ri A 116 System UUN me M 117 Facebook and Twitter seni eee Pr EHE ES 139 Printing e T ENN E ER 143 How Events Are Included On Calendars sss 144 SMS Text Message Reminders sese 145 13 Tutorials To help our customers get the most out of Connect Daily we have created video tutorials Watching the complete set of tutorials takes approximately an hour The Tutorials use an audio soundtrack to guide you through the use of Connect Daily Make sure your computer s speaker volume is turned up Adding Calendars Shockwave This tutorial shows how to create a new calendar http www mhsoft ware com tutorials AddCalendat MP4 see Add Calendar Tutorial MP4 http www mbhsott ware com tutorials AddCalendat Ad dCalendarTutotial mp4 Basic Navigation Shockwave MP4 This demonstration shows how to navigate through Connect Daily 4 24 see Tutorial MP4 calendars Basic Navigation http www mhsoft ware com tutorials BasicNavigation BasicNavigation m PA Program Operation Event Add amp Edit Shockwave see Add This demonstration shows the basic steps to add an Event to a
32. Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Ifthe Item Globally Unique ID field is left blank then events will be duplicated each time the file is imported The resources field can be a comma separated collection of resources used by the event Conflict checking is not enabled for the resource import CSV Import Wizard Step 2 of 3 Match the columns from the CSV file to Connect Daily s fields Title Starting Date Start Time End Date End Time Description Event Type Contact Name Contact Info Location Addl Info URL Resources Description Start Date Start Time End Date End Time Event Type Contact Name Contact Info Location URL Resources Item Globally Unique ID Item Globally Unique ID See Also Periodic Event Import Import iCal Events Description of iCalendar Format 1Cal 1s a text file format designed for publishing calendar information For information about the 1Cal format refer to RFC 5545 Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification iCalendar Many programs allow you to subscribe to remote calendars and have them appear transparently with the rest of your schedule Some programs that support iCalendar include 92 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 gt gt gt gt gt Program Operation Apple iCal device and desktop Google Calendar Microsoft Outlook and Live Mail Mozilla Lightning and many others The RFC for iCal
33. Resource Approval Request Messages Adding and Editing Resource Types Resource Types are categories of Resources Some examples of Resource Types would be Vehicles Rooms A V Equipment etc From the menu choose EDIT RESOURCE TYPES Depending upon your privilege you will see from two to three icons to the left of the resource name Refer to the Icon Usage section To add a Resource Type click on the Add Resource Type button at the bottom of the list If the button is not present then you do not have sufficient privilege to Add Edit Resources Types Contact your system administrator Using the icons provided on this page you can view the calendar for this Resource type or view a Resource Planner view sce Planner View on page 40 for this Resource type The Resource Planner View for Resource type shows all Resources of that type The Parent Type field allows you to define hierarchical resource types For example you can have a resource type of facility and a child resource type of Conference room Then when you view planner view for the facility resource type conference room resources will be grouped and displayed together 26 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation The Corporate Pack version of Connect Daily allows you to define Attributes for your resources Attributes can be used to search for resources when creating events For example you can search for a vehicle that holds at least ten passengers
34. Right click on the Certification Authority and select properties On the General tab click on the View Certificate button When the Certificate dialog appears change to the Details tab Click on the Copy to File button Set the export file format to DER encoded binary X 509 Nn UNF Y amp Y DN Hit Next and assign a file name finish the Export Certificate Wizard Import the CA certificate from your Certificate Authority installation into a new keystore file using the command keytool import file file cer keystore sslkey keystor alias type r name sslkey Once you ve created the keystore file change the SSLTrustStore path entry in the Idap properties file to point to it If your Domain Controller LDAP server is not the same server as the Certification Authority server it may be necessary to go to the Issued Certificates section of the Certificate Authority program and locate the certificate issued to your domain controller Once you locate that certificate import it using the command shown above Follow the rest of the LDAP configuration instructions in the Configuring LDAP Authentication on page 224 topic Debugging Notes If it s not working first try disabling SSL by editing the LDAP properties file Once you have authentication working without SSL re enable SSL and follow these steps To debug the SSL connection sequence define Djavax net debug ssl record or Djavax net debug ssl handshake On Window
35. Save Changes URL This is the URL to the file to impott If the path changes you must delete the import link and create a new link using the appropriate import screen Type This is the import type Supported types are iCal RSS and CSV Enabled This box is checked if the import is enabled and unchecked to disable it If 3 errors occur during import the system will automatically disable the link For example if the web server hosting the file is down for 3 days and the import file is unavailable the link will be disabled Checking the box will re enable the import link Import Interval This is how often the data should be imported to Connect Daily Last Imported Date and time the import was last executed Messages System messages generated during the LAST import Notes gt You must have edit permission to the calendar to create a periodic import link gt You can only create periodic import links for URL imports not file imports Ifthe source file is not modified it will not be re imported gt If your source file doesn t have a unique key UID for iCal or a field mapped to Item Globally Unique ID for CSV and RSS Import events will be duplicated each time the file is re imported gt Ifthe user who created the import link or the default event type is deleted the import link will automatically be disabled gt Ifthe source web server doesn t specify a file encoding as part of the response UTF 8 will be
36. The event type id to extract events for The id of the location to extract events for Resource ID to extract events for Resource Type ID to extract events fot URL Options Parameter Name Desctiption allow duplicates The default behavior is to export each event only one time no matter how many times the event occurs during the dayspan If you want every occurrence of an event to be exported add allow duplicates 1 as an argument callback Callback function to send data to If you re using jQuery the format for the callback function would be callback dayspan of days to retrieve events for If not specified uses the Default of Days to Export value from System Configuration Sync Export Options integral days Default 1 Say you set maxcount 12 and the 13th event is on the same day as the 12th event If integral days 1 the default then all events that happen on the same day as the item specified by maxcount are included To disable this pass integral days 0 as an argument maxcount Maximum number of events to return If not specified uses the Default Max Events to Export value from System Configuration Sync Export Options The number of returned elements is also impacted by integral days offset Offset number of day to retrieve events for For example if you want tomorrow s events you would pass offset 1 amp dayspan 0 reverse If reverse 1 reverse the default order of the returned events maxcount is ap
37. This is the time range that is used for the single day planner view The default interval for the day view divisions is one hour If the time range is greater than 12 hours divisions are created for every two hours Enable Save Messages By default Connect Daily only notifies when a save fails When turned on a confirmation dialog is displayed each time an Item is saved Enable user comments when saving If you select this option each time you edit an event the system will prompt you to enter comments about the change These comments will be placed in the audit trail and in any notification messages that are sent Smart Calendar Return By default after you add an item the Return to Calendar View button takes you to the calendar you were just viewing If you select this option the system will determine what month the new event will fall in and when you click on the return to Calendar button you will be taken to that month Display Event Detail in Week View and List View When this option is selected the long description and other details for the Event will be displayed in line on the web page Search Results Displayed in Calendar Form If this option is selected any search results will be returned in the User s default calendar view e g month view calendar rather than list view Show Last Login on Welcome Selecting this will display the User s last login time and computer address on the welcome screen when they login This
38. Users can be changed by system administrators by using the Edit User screen One thing to remember about User preferences Users who ate not logged in run with the preferences of the PUBLIC USER see Permissions for Anonymous Users on page 75 User Preferences on page 29 as specified in system configuration So to set options for Users who are not logged in use the SYSTEM SECURITY USERS and then click on the edit icon left of the GUEST User s name Then on the Edit User screen set the preferences for the GUEST User 29 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Time Zone If Time Zone support is enabled each User can specify what time zone they are in and timed events will automatically be converted to that time zone EMail Address This is the EMail Address of the User The address will always be converted to lower case SMS Text This is the phone number for the mobile device the user would like to receive event reminders and notifications on See Also Creating Event Reminders on page 100 SMS Text Message Reminders on page 145 Default Calendar When the User sees any of the View pages this 1s the calendar format that will be displayed to the User Default Calendar View When a User is logged in and chooses View Calendar from the menu this is the default format of the calendar that will appear Examples would be month view day view week view etc Planner Start and End Time
39. Yonder Mountain String Band Zombo Styling for this widget is controlled by y your WordPress theme Clicking on an event brings up a dialog with the details for that event 173 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Web Site Integration Adding the Widget to Your Page To add the widgets to your page from the WordPress Dashboard select Appearance Widgets Drag the desired Connect Daily Widget from the Available Widgets area to the Sidebar or Widget area you want to put it in Main Sidebar tht to activate them Drag widgets back here to deactivate them and delete their Appears on posts and pages except the optional Front Page template which has its TENET own widgets A calendar of your site s posts Search Connect Daily Mini Calendar Widget Recent Posts Mini Calendar of Events Meta Custom Menu Use this widgetto add one of your custom menus as a widget First Front Page Widget Area Meta Log in out admin feed and WordPress SERE Page Widget fum links u Recent Comments The most recent comments 174 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 m Web Site Integration Once it s in the Widget area click on the down arrow for the widget to configure it Connect Daily Simple List Widget Simi z Title Simple List of Upcoming Events List Events By Calendar List Events For All Events i Max Days in Future 7 Max Events 12 Date Format LjMY Other Options 7 Sh
40. and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation See Also SMS Text Message Reminders on page 145 Event The Texas Tenors at Candlelight Dinner Playhouse Description z leig Y Notifyon Change i Send x Reminder Email SMS Text Message Both 1 v Hours vw before event Message Don tForget D Email SMS Text Message Both 2 Day s v before event Message Add Notify Available Users or Groups Selected Users or Groups Others Groups Admins Approvers E I Users a Viewers Users Guest User for by Venue View Guest User for Concerts X X Additional EMail Creating Notification Requests A Notification Request is a way of setting up the system so that when events that you are interested in are added to the calendar you will automatically receive an EMail message When you create a Request each new event added to the calendar is tested against the Request and if it is a match then you will receive an EMail Notification about the new event You can search for specific key words or for specific key words matching a set criteria see Keywords and Specific Set below You can have as many notification requests as you would like Click Add Notification Request at the bottom of the Notification Request list to create a new request Tip To prevent multiple Notifications of an edit a 1 hour delay will elapse between the time an event is approved and the time that Notification messages wi
41. and modify it to suit your needs If a custom header is used remember that the style sheet callout is in the custom header file Mobile Style Sheet This is the name of the style sheet used for mobile views of Connect Daily If you want to customize the mobile style sheet download mobile src css Rename customize it and set this name to the name of your new sheet Print Style Sheet This style sheet controls the appearance of Connect Daily when you print calendars By editing this sheet you can adjust the point size of events when they print Refer to Printing Issues on page 143 for additional information Default Header File amp Default Footer File These values control the default header and footer file used when viewing a calendar They will only be used when viewing calendars while not logged in 121 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Item styles are linked to event types If this option is set to Yes then colorization of events is tied to the Event Type You would specify the style for the Event Type on the Edit Event Type screen If this option is set to No then you can set the Item Style independently of the Event Type Automatically generate a legend for item style event types If this option is set to Yes then a Legend of Item Styles will be generated and appear below the calendar For mini calendars highlight days with events If you set this option to Yes then the mini month ca
42. and select your file using the file select dialog If your browser supports it you can matk multiple files for upload at one time gt To attach a URL fo your calendar event type in the complete URL address i e http www anysite com in the URL text box gt Click on the Submit button to complete adding your file or URL Your Attachment will now appear in the Edit Event form gt To attach another file or URL to your calendar event repeat the process again gt When all of your Attachments have been added click on the Close button and return to the Edit Calendar Event Attachments window If you upload a duplicate file the file is discarded and the event you are editing will reference the original file Add New File Add Existing File Add New File 5 File Browse No files selected Name Or URL Add Existing File Use this form to select a file or URL that has already been uploaded to your calendar event gt Using the File Type drop down menu select the appropriate file type from the available types or you may opt to leave the selection on Any 54 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation You may want to type the beginning letter of your file name or URL in the Name Starts With box to limit the size of your Attachment search Filling in this text box 1s not required to complete your search gt Click on the Search button The existing files and URLs a
43. as required then the User will be forced to input a value in order to save the event What It Can t Do The Bad News When you add a Field Connect Daily will not automatically do something with it For example you can t create an event priority field and have Connect Daily automatically EMail someone when an event with high priority is created The Good News If you really need to be able to do customized handling of events the Custom Field feature allows programmers to create their own custom hooks into Connect Daily Some of the capabilities are 111 HB Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Custom event hooks at the browser level Custom CSS Classes for formatting of input elements Dropdown lookups from any database Custom Selection dialogs to search your own internal databases v v v cw cw Before and After update hooks that allow you to write your own code that gets called when a calendar event is saved These are advanced capabilities that will require software development skills The documentation for this is contained in the Connect Daily Source Code Guide The Source Code Guide is available upon request for no additional fee If you don t have a development staff MH Software Inc can work with you to create a custom input solution to meet your needs Custom Field Creation Wizard The Custom Field Creation Wizard gives you a simple way to create your own custom field sets To get to this
44. aware of the following 1 Depending on your operating system calendar display may not work correctly You can work around this by setting a configuration entry charset ISO 8859 1 in your configuration properties file The issue happens because Netscape 4 x advertises support for Unicode but the support depends on which OS you are using 2 When logged in editing calendars clicking on the day numerals will not take you to the edit item scteen to add a new item 3 Calendar and cell borders will not display Generally CSS in Netscape 4 x is horribly broken made changes to an event but they were not saved Changes to calendar events are not saved until you specifically click on the Save button Rich Text Editor Questions Connect Daily allows you to use a Rich Text editor to create the long description for events You can also use the Rich Text Editor for creating a custom header that is displayed when you are logged in The rich text editor is the Dojo Dijit Editor available as part of the Dojo Toolkit available from http www dojotoolkit org Features The editor allows you to format text including bold italic underline text color text background color etc You can also insert links and images Finally you can control the text alignment and insert numbered and simple lists As you move your mouse over the icons in the editor toolbar a tooltip will be displayed These tooltips explain the function of the icon Compatib
45. basic steps for all databases are 1 Create the user account for the database if necessary 2 Create the database Select a character set collation sequence that will be compatible with your installation If in doubt and your database supports it UTF 8 or Unicode 16 is the best choice 201 MH Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading 3 Grant the user appropriate rights in the database 4 Login as the User and connect to the Calendar database 5 Run the schema creation sctipt 6 Install the JDBC Drivers If you are installing on an existing application server this is probably done already If you are installing a new servlet engine the easiest thing to do is place the JDBC JAR files in the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF lib directory 7 Edit configuration properties on page 202 and enter the JDBC connection settings for your database 8 Configure the database backup routine Note The schema create script contains all commands necessary to drop existing tables and reload the schema It is normal for error messages to appear at the beginning of the script stating that tables or views wete not found to drop Enterprise Installation If you will be creating multiple installations it is possible to create one physical database and partition it into multiple logical databases For example you plan to implement the calendar software for 12 distinct sites Since each site has unique facilities and needs you wou
46. below into the edit box labeled License File Contents and click on the button Import License Data button Thu May 04 14 21 51 MDT 2006 Sync LicenseKey 302CO02147CEG1A6BZ AFFFCBO7E7B9122DS5F13FBC7F2064C40214518 F55A38FG812B54DB71C6A899662BZ 75DFGAB7F LicenseKey 302kE02150089F688ECZZGED33F614BE6CZ2B4614AFBG4C940850215009357 12DB076787CD749CBCA4CFSO0FCS9C37ZD370E9 CustomerName MH Software Inc Development LicensedCalendars 1 UpdateExpirationDate 2007 05 05 I m having problems with the license key If you are having trouble with the License Key system please read this topic If you need detailed instructions on how to request a License Key refer to Send Me A License Key Connect Daily uses information from your computer to create a License Key that is unique In order to y y P y q generate this key you must use the key request feature from an installed version of Connect Daily To request a key 1 Login to Connect Daily If you get a Demonstration Expired message restart Connect Daily and login 2 From the menu choose SYSTEM CONFIGURATION 3 Click on the button labeled Request License Key at the bottom of the page 4 Enter yout organization name and EMail address in the appropriate fields 255 Hi Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Frequently Asked Questions 5 Click on the button labeled Request License Key If the request is successful a message will be displayed saying Key Request Sent
47. by Default By default only event start times are displayed on the calendar You can specify that stop times should be displayed by default by selecting this option Show Resources by Default By default Resources are not displayed on the main calendar only on the specific Item view Selecting this option will show the Resources on the various calendar views Display Event Detail in Week View and List View When this option is selected the long description and other details for the Event will be displayed in line on the web page Show Event Types Filter with Calendar Selecting this option will display a set of checkboxes above the calendar display Using these checkboxes the user can select what event types should be displayed It s similar to viewing calendar by even type but it allows you to select more than one event type at the same time Search Results Displayed in Calendar Form If this option is selected any search results will be returned in the User s default calendar view e g month view calendar rather than list view Allow anonymous users to use the sync feature If this option is selected then guest users can use the Connect Daily sync program to download events to MS Outlook or Palm PDAs Enable location entry for events Selecting this option will allow public users to select a location when they create an event Enable iCal Export and RSS Feeds Set this option to allow visitors to subscribe to your calendar
48. can also insert links and images Finally you can control the text alignment and insert numbered and simple lists As you move your mouse over the icons in the editor toolbar a tooltip will be displayed These tooltips explain the function of the icon Compatibility The editor works by creating a window and telling the browser to put that window into design mode To a very large degree the behavior of the window is dependent on the browser For example we ve seen problems copying and pasting when using Internet Explorer This is not a defect in Connect Daily or the Dojo editor but a defect in Internet Explorer If you are copying pasting text from Microsoft Word be sure to use the Copy Paste from Word function by clicking on the icon as shown below v Av Bi v S PN E zoe 5 0 8 Speed Some browsers are faster than others On our test computer it takes 4 seconds for the rich text editor to display using Internet Explorer 8 Using the same computer with Firefox 3 10 the page displays in 1 6 seconds If you re having performance problems you may want to consider switching browsers Exporting The various export screens will export the data as you enter it You should be aware that not all programs will handle importing HTML correctly Disabling the Rich Text Editor The Rich Text Editor can be disabled by going to System Configuration Appearance Set the option for Enable Rich Text editor for event description to No If
49. carrier network that are the controlling factors When I add an event and click on the Add Me button in the contact info section it sticks in the wrong stuff To correct the default name have your calendar administrator edit your user account and enter the correct full name To correct the Email address login to the standard browser version of Connect Daily Click on the Change Preferences link to set your Email address Mobile Device Tutorial You can view the tutorial for the Mobile Viewer at http www mbhsottware com tutotials Mobile Viewet http www mbhsottware com tutotials Mobile Viewet 151 Chapter 3 Hosted Version Operation The hosted version of Connect Daily allows you to use the software without installing it on your own web servet ot ISP web servet We create a private calendar for you to use Members of your group can update your calendar from wherever they are using a web browser Visitors to your website can view your calendar events When you use the hosted version of Connect Daily MH Software Inc does the following 1 We create a private calendar for you to use 2 Every day we back up your events to an off site location 3 We install updates to the software as they are released 4 We continually monitor servers to ensure the highest possible availability of your calendar 5 We provide reports so you can see who s visiting your calendar To sign up for a hosted trial of the calendar please vis
50. cdaily support security AuthProv iderCookieSignon Restart the Connect Daily application Authenticate to the source web application then attempt to access Connect Daily See Also Automatically Creating Users Configuring Container Authentication Container Authentication means that the servlet container or web server will authenticate the user To find out if the user is logged in or not Connect Daily will call HttpServletRequest getRemoteUser If this returns a value that value is used as the login name Before continuing add at least one administrator level account to Connect Daily that has a user name you will use for container login 232 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading Add a line to the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF configuration properties that specifies the Container authentication provider AuthenticationProvider com mhsoftware cdaily support security AuthProv iderContainer See Also Configuting Windows Integrated Authentication on page 233 Configuring Windows Integrated Authentication If you are running Connect Daily under Microsoft HS you can configure it to use Windows Integrated Authentication This means that it will not be necessary for users to login to the calendar Note that for this to work your browser must also support Windows Integrated Authentication To configure Windows Integrated Authentication follow these steps 1 Login to Connect Daily and add a user accoun
51. check the options for Disable Event and Resource Approval Request Messages gt Disable Empty Approval Messages Additionally check the security settings for each calendar In particular ensure that the options for Mail approvers when this user or group adds an event Mail approvers when this user or group edits an event are unchecked for all users and groups If you want to cut down on messages sent to event contacts go to System Configuration EMail Configuration on page 127 and set the option for Notify contacts on event add and Notify contacts on event edit or delete to no All Users If an event is deleted by another user the owner will receive a notification Email about the deletion If a specific user is reporting problems check to see if they ve created a notification request that matches all events or if another user has created a notification request that affects them To do this go to System Manage Reminders Find the Email address by clicking on the letter corresponding to the first letter of the Email address Regular user accounts will have a disabled delete icon while users who have created notification filters will have the delete icon enabled If you click on the pencil icon for the Email address you will be taken to that lists notifications and reminders for that Email address See Also Help screen for EMail Notifications and Reminders sce Notifications and Reminders on page 99 245 B Ins
52. contains the user Email address When a user is created or logged in their Email address is set to this value 229 Hi Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading GroupAttributeName The attribute name for group memberships When a user logs in their Connect Daily group memberships will be reconciled with their LDAP group memberships and they will be removed or added to Connect Daily as required ExtractUserNameExpression By default Connect Daily will extract the user name from the supplied user name If searchField SAMAccountName then the domain name is stripped off If searchField UserPrincipalName then the portion after the symbol is stripped If searchField DN then the user name is the portion after the first CN up to the first comma If you need to you can specify your own regular expression to extract the user name If your user account names are not unique for example you have a user JSmith in a context and another user JSmith in a different context this may cause problems To have Connect Daily use the full user supplied user name set this value to disable debugMode Sends detailed debugging information to the server log files This will log passwords so you should turn it off and erase the log files once debugging is completed Debugging LDAP AD Authentication LDAP AD authentication is complex to configure and a lot can go wrong The purpose of this article is to help you determin
53. directory f Repeat steps a d for the CATALINA_BASE logs For this directory ensure the user is granted write permissions to the directory Step 3 Create the Jakarta Virtual Directory a Open the Windows Internet Information Services Manager and right click on the virtual host or default website for the calendar From the popup menu select New gt Virtual Directory b Enter a virtual directory name of jakarta You must type the directory name in precisely as shown 214 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading C For the directory choose CATALINA_BASE bin native d Assign Allow Execute Access permissions to the directory e Complete the dialog by clicking on OK or Finish Step 4 Install the ISAPI Redirector Filter a Right click on the Virtual host again and choose properties b When the properties dialog box appears select the ISAPI Filters tab c Click on the Add button Enter a name like Jakarta Redirector d For the Executable click on the Browse button and navigate to the CATALINA_BASE bin native directory and select the file isapi redirect dll e Select OK and click on Apply Step 5 Windows 2003 IIS 6 Only a In the left pane of the IIS manager select Web Service Extensions and select Add a new Web setvice extension b Name the extension Jakarta Tomcat and add the CATALINA_BASE bin native isapi_redirect dll to the required files section c Check
54. directory for your application servet Copy the configuration properties file you saved in step 2 to the WEB INF directory If you are using MS Access copy the calendar mdb file you saved prior to beginning into the WEB INFNSQL Access directory Follow the instructions in the Database Updates section below If you copied your database J DBC driver JARs into the WEB INF lib directory recopy them to the WEB INF lib If you are using your own translated caption files refer to the Installation Guide and User manual for instructions on how to ensure you have all captions in your file 10 Restart your application server Database Updates SQL Database Users 1 2 237 E Write down your current program version BACKUP YOUR DATABASE BEFORE PERFORMING THESE STEPS Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 3 JNDI USERS Installation and Upgrading Edit your configuration properties file For the upgrade script to run you must create a configuration properties file that uses a standard JDBC Connect String This is because the upgrade script will not have access to JNDI variables when it runs For information on editing configuration properties refer to configuration properties on page 202 4 Run the db upgrade scripts in the WEB INF sg l directory If your current version lt Your Version lt 3 1 x Your Version lt 3 2 x Your Version lt 3 3 x Your Version lt 3 4 x run310 bat or run320 bat or 1un330 bat or
55. event description By default the iCal export routine will follow the calendar s setting of whether to include rollup calendars as part of the exported calendar If you do not want events from included calendars to be displayed append add rollup 0 to the URL To force rollup events add rollup 1 The presence of the user_id and token parameters allow you to specify a URL to data that would not otherwise be visible Users can invalidate their export token by going to any of the data export screens and selecting the icon to re generate the access code JSON Export JSON is an acronym for Javascript Object Notation It s a format for exchanging data with Javascript code Additionally most programming languages have libraries that can parse JSON data Compared to processing RSS XML JSON has less overhead and it s easier to use The URL to access data in JSON format from Connect Daily is calendar path jsonp by method object id list js pURLOption value amp URLOption value if the requested file name is list js then a list of items of by method will be returned E G a list of calendars Otherwise a list of events matching by_method object id are returned Method Values cal_item_id The cal_item_id of a specific event to retrieve data for calendar_id The ID of the calendar to extract events for object id is the calendar ID 67 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation item type id
56. events must match to be displayed 43 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation See Also View Search Q Advanced Search Calendars Available Calendars Selected Calendars All Events All Sports Events TN College Sports gt Colorado Avalanche m Colorado Mammoth Colorado Rapids m Colorado Rockies Concerts d Event Types t Resources Additionally only show events matching Search Text spotlight Search Fields Title Field All Fields Start Date M End Date M View All times displayed relative to America Denver Programmatic Calling Advanced Search You can call advanced search with URL arguments and the screen will automatically perform the search and send the user to the appropriate view Arguments ate Here s an example http www mhsoftware com caldemo ViewAdvSearch html txtSearch Diego amp btnSubmit View amp title De mo 20Search amp viewer ViewPlanner html amp dayspan 10 Arguments for the Advanced Search Screen are shown below Unless otherwise noted all text values must be encoded per RFC 3986 Parameter Description btnSubmit Required This argument tells the form to execute the search and display the results The value is ignored Comma separated list of calendar ID s to display 44 BW Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Date for start of search in format YYYY MM DD Comma separated list of item t
57. for your database Allowed values are com MHSoftware db support DerbyDB com MHSoftware db support IbmDB2DB com MHSoftware db support MySQLDB com MHSoftware db support OracleDB com MHSoftware db support SQLServerDB com MHSoftware db support PostgreSQLDB com MHSoftware db support SybaseSQLADB Apache Derby Configuration 1 Ifyou are running Derby as a Network Server configure and start the server 2 Edit the WEB INF sql DERBY calschema sql Place The connect command for your server at the top For example connect jdbe derby localhost 1527 calendardb create true 3 Using the ij tool run the WEB INF sql DERBY calschema sq script 4 Edit configuration properties If you are running Derby as a networked server add this information to the bottom of the WEB INF configuration properties file JDBCDriver org apache derby jdbc ClientDriver JDBCConnectString jdbc derby localhost 1527 calendardb DBObjectClass com M HSoftware db support DerbyDB JDBCPassword APP JDBCUserID APP If the Derby database is on a different machine replace localhost with the hostname for the remote database server If you re running DERBY as an embedded database add this to the WEB INF configuration properties JDBCDriver org apache derby jdbc EmbeddedDriver JDBCConnectString jdbc derby calendardb DBObjectClass com M HSoftware db support DerbyDB JDBCPassword APP JDBCUserID APP Note In order fo
58. http www w3 org Security Faq wwwsf2 html CLT Q10 I ve made a change to my preferences but when I log out that change is gone When you are not logged in the preference settings are determined in two steps If the User has gone to the Anonymous Preferences screen then the options for Show Stop Time Show Resources and Time Zone are controlled by what the User has selected In all other cases the options are controlled by the User preferences set for the GUEST User To edit the settings for the GUEST user go to the Setup Public Calendar Viewing screen sce Setup Public Calendar Viewing on page 33 See Also Permissions for Anonymous Users on page 75 User Preferences on page 29 What are my options for importing or exporting from MS Outlook Exporting From MS Outlook For exporting data from MS Outlook into Connect Daily there are two options iCal Conversion Program Using the iCal Conversion program you can export your Outlook data as iCal RFC 5545 data for import into Connect Daily using the Import iCal File screen This method gives the best results because it preserves recurrence information for events Use the link below to download the converter iCalConversion Program Installer http www mhsottware com bin iCalConvett msi 247 Hi Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Frequently Asked Questions Comma Separated Value CSV Export Using Outlook s export capability you can save your events in CSV format Once t
59. is making a very simple request to the server and receiving 31 characters of data If it s taking a long time then it s your carrier If you want to test your device go forward a few months and then start going backwards The web pages cache information locally so when you hit backwards you re seeing how long it takes your device to re display data that s already in memoty General mobile performance information Connect Daily uses a vatiety of performance optimizations to make the mobile version as fast as possible These include Chapter 2 Mi Mobile Operation AJAX requests to update the pages Compressed Javascript and CSS gt gt gt GZIP Compression at the server level gt Local caching of AJAX information The use of AJAX means that requests for each page are very small For example going forward one day will generally return about 200 characters of information Using the month forward button requests 31 characters of data from the server The great thing about this is that even if you re heavily using Connect Daily it s going to use very little data Conservatively if you add ten events a day and perform 200 page views you would use about 500K bytes of data per day or around 15MB per month A typical data plan starts at 2000MB per month On one particular device we used for testing it can take up to two minutes to go forward one day The next request might take under a second In either case it s the device and the
60. it will use an HTML list style menu that will be more compatible with assistive technology software Sort Calendars Use the list and the up and down arrows to sort the calendars into the order you would like them to appear Adding Calendars You might want to take a few minutes and watch the Tutorial on Adding Calendars http www mhsoftware com tutotials AddCalendar To add a Calendar from the menu select EDIT CALENDARS At the top of the page you should see the New Calendar icon and the Add Calendar Wizard Icon If you don t see these icons you do not have system ptivileges to add a Calendar Contact your system administrator Once you have saved the Calendar you can give other Users permission to use and edit the Calendar To delete a calendar scroll to the bottom of the edit calendar screen and click on the Delete button We encourage new system Users to carefully think through all of the Calendars they want their system to have ptior to adding all of the events The section below contains detailed information on configuring the different elements of a Calendar Name This is the name of the Calendar that Users will see Short Name If the Calendar is included as part of another Calendar and the inclusion type 1s set to Calendar Title then the following rules apply gt Ifthe short name is not filled in the included Events from this Calendar will be displayed on the parent Calendar as Calendar Name Event Title
61. mysql user root mysql gt create database calendar character set utf8 mysql gt grant all privileges on calendar to calendar localhost identified by calendar mysql exit 3 Change to the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF sql MYSQL directory Create the database schema user mysql user calendar p calendar Enter Password mysql gt calschema sql mysql gt exit 206 HM Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 4 Installation and Upgrading Configure the JDBC entries in the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF configuration propetties file BObjectClass com MHSoftware db support MySQLDB DBCConnectString jdbc mysql localhost 3306 calendar DBCDriver com mysql jdbc Driver DBCPassword calendar DBCUserID calendar aaqag Oracle Configuration 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Download Connect Daily using the Installer Using the Database Configuration Assistant create a new database named calendar yourdomain com with a SID of calendar Using DBA Studio or Enterprise Manager Console for Oracle 9 connect to the calendar database with Username SYSTEM password MANAGER and Connect as set to SYSDBA If you have changed your SYSTEM password you will need to enter the correct password Expand out the calendar database and right click on the Users folder Select CREATE from the right click Menu Enter the USER ID and PASSWORD you would like to use On the ROLE tab select DBA Close DBA Stu
62. notification request and added you as a CC ask them to remove you Event Deleted Notification Message An event was deleted from the calendar AND You created a notification request so that you would be sent an Email about any events added to the calendar AND the system wide setting Re Process Notification Requests on Event Change is set to Yes OR Another user created a notification request and added you as a CC recipient for the notification request he created The name and Email address of the user who created the notification request will be shown in the Additional Information section of the Email OR You have cteated a reminder for the event and the option to Notify on Change was checked OR Another user created a reminder for the event with the option to Notify on Change checked and they added you as a CC for the reminder Disabling Reminder Generated Messages If you created the reminder delete it by going to the calendar clicking on the event to view the event details and then click on the Alarm Icon If another user created the reminder contact them and ask to be removed from the reminder The contact information for the person who created the reminder will be displayed in the Additional Information section Disabling Notification Request Generated Messages Follow the link in the message to edit or delete the notification request If another user created the notification request and added you as a CC ask th
63. of events by Event Type Using the company department example you couldn t download all events for one department by themselves Setup and Teardown Events on page 63 can t be used gt If you re using Event Type for department then you can t use them for other things For example you couldn t assign training as an Event Type and view all training events in the company Method Multiple Calendars Advantages Permissions can be used to limit visibility of some calendars You can have calendars visible to some Users and not visible to others You can have some calendars the public can see while other calendars would only be visible to people with logins Apptovers can be set for each calendar Flexible rollup calendar definition You can group any set of calendars together for a combined view You can also create multi level combined views For example you could have a calendar for each state that rolls into a calendar for each region You can also have a national calendar that includes all states Control over individual event rollup For example the Accounting department is having a picnic They want it on their calendar but not the corporate calendar Accounting can set the privacy on the picnic to not roll the event up into the Everything calendar You can create setup and teardown events see Setup and Teardown Events on page 63 For example you re having an event in the Gym from 1 00 PM to 3 00 PM but the Gym needs to be f
64. production system you should disable it by removing the values Template User for auto adding users If you are using an authentication provider that supports automatically creating users Container and LDAP authentication this is the user account to copy user preferences and default security configuration from See Automatically Creating Users for additional information Allow JavaScript in Items By default Connect Daily does not allow you to enter JavaScript as part of an Item desctiption This 1s to make cross site scripting attacks more difficult and make Connect Daily safer for Users If you wish you can set this option to Yes to allow operators to enter JavaScript as part of an Event description You should not set this option if you allow the public to add Events Require Complex Passwords User passwords must have at least one alpha one digit and non digit non alpha character Minimum Password Length The number of characters a password must contain Default is 5 Lock Account after N Bad Logins If N bad login attempts occur then the account is locked for a specified period or until the administrator unlocks the account 132 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Period in Minutes to Retain Bad Login Count for The number of minutes to lock an account after bad login attempts happen Setting this to a negative number means forever and an administrator will have to re enable the account Gra
65. putting in the configuration entries for your database The entry should look something like but each entry on one complete line Jg BObjectClass com MHSoftware db support SQLServerDB DBCDriver com microsoft sqlserver jdbc SQLServerDriver DBCConnectString jdbc sqlserver yourserver yourcompany com DatabaseName Calendar ApplicationName Connect Daily Web Calendar C JDBCPassword calendar JDBCUserID calendar Refer to the JDBC Driver help topic entitled Connecting to SOL Server with the JDBC Driver for additional information on JDBC configuration options Gotcha Warning If you have Connect Daily and SQL Server installed on the same machine you may run into a startup dependency Connect Daily may attempt to start before SQL Server If this happens the Connect Daily application will not run correctly and you ll get errors To correct this create a registry value of type Multi String Value REG MULTI SZ named DependOnService in the key HKEY LOCAL MACHINENSYSTEMN CurrentControlSet Services ConnectDaily For the value of DependOnService enter MSSOLSERV ER MySQL Installation Connect Daily requires version 5 0 or higher of MySQL 1 Download the MySQL JDBC Connector from the MySQL com Downloads Connector web site Copy the MySQL Connector J JDBC Driver files to your application server s path or the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF lib directory 2 Create the database and user user gt
66. run240 bat or You must run each required script in order 238 BW Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 sh sh sh sh 239 Chapter 7 Frequently Asked Questions In This Chapter Common Pre sales QuestiOtisis cccccssesssesasevevevavevesesasevevesavevevavesevevetavevarsiceevasteas 241 Berna NO M 244 Genet FAQ 247 Installatioti Question morisenos ron inaina ceto totu tota to bo bebo oe Cod E Reo ER ERR HRS 252 License Key 88U688 uasee emerit rr P E ERR EH EESN 254 Recurring Events Questions ssssseeeeeneten tentent 256 R source Management ausos teeseoeiite mee eei eR 257 Security QuestlOfls sot eni terere rere eri E tcr eret t ERE 257 241 Common Pre sales Questions Here are some answets to the questions people most commonly ask before purchasing Connect Daily Click on the question to display the answer How do I choose the right calendar package for my needs Here are some examples and some guidance on how to pick the right number of calendars for your organization The simplest answer is that you need to purchase one calendar for each unique VIEW you want to create For example you have a company with 9 departments You would like to be able to view each department by itself or view the company as a whole You can do this one of two ways You can purchase a 10 calendar license and create a calendar for each department and a rollup or combine
67. runs under Click on the web site in the Connections left pane In the Actions right most pane click on Advanced Settings Note the application pool used c In the Connections left pane click on Application Pools Click on the application pool noted in the previous step In the Actions right most pane click on Advanced Settings Note whether Enable 32 Bit Applications is set to True In the Process Model section note the Identity the application pool uses d Using Windows Explorer navigate to the SCATALINA BASE bin native directory Right click on the folder and choose properties Change to the Security tab of the properties dialog f Click on the Edit button and then the Add button If necessary change the Look In dropdown to refer to the local machine g If the identity from step 1c is ApplicationPoolldentity enter IIS APPPOOL DefaultAppPool otherwise select the User you discovered in step 1c click Add and finally click OK h Repeat steps d g for the CATALINA_BASE conf directory 218 MH Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading i Repeat steps d g for the SCATALINA BASEMogs sub directory For this directory ensure that the user noted in step 1c is granted write permissions to the directory Step 2 Create the Jakarta Application a From the sites list select the site or Default Web Site for the calendar Right click on the desired site From the popup menu se
68. s details click on the Alarm icon On your first entry this will take you to the login screen 2 Create a new account by entering your EMail address and password Click on the Create Account button 3 When you receive the confirmation Email click on the link in the message 4 Once you have confirmed the EMail address click on the link to the List Reminders page Reminder Options Notify On Change If this is selected then the User will receive EMail notification of any edits to the event Send Reminder Email SMS Text Message or Both Select how you want to receive the reminder If you haven t entered an SMS Text Message in edit preferences that option will be disabled Number Minutes Hours or Days Before Event Specify when you would like to receive the reminder for the event The eatliest is 30 days before an event and the latest is 10 minutes before the event Message This is a brief 64 character message sent as part of the reminder message To delete a specific reminder click on the X button To add an additional reminder click on the Add button Notify Others If a User has the system permission to add others to their Reminders they can pick additional Connect Daily Users or Groups to receive Reminders about this event gt Additional EMail Recipients If you have notify other permissions you can just type the EMail addresses of anyone you want to receive the event reminder 100 B Installation Guide
69. single signon Cookie based single signon is documented here see Cookie Based Single Signon Authentication on page 231 3 You can use plain text passwords See below for information on how to do this Plain Text Password Configuration The first step is to read the FAQ entry How can I configure for plain text passwords By default Connect Daily stores passwords in a hashed format This is done to protect the passwords if the database should be compromised Sometimes for integration or technical support reasons customers want to store the plain text passwords To do this add the line AuthenticationProvider com mhsoftware cdaily support security AuthProv iderDefault 258 MH Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Frequently Asked Questions to the configuration properties file If you have any existing passwords stored in the database you will need to put in plain text passwords by editing the Users table To edit the Users table you will have to use a database tool that lets you directly edit the Users table or use SQL Update commands to set the passwords For example Update users set password Admin where user_name Admin You can run individual update statements via the SQL Command Window utility available in the Database configuration screen Once you have followed these steps create your link in the form http hostname CALENDAR PATH login html txtUserID USER NAME amp txtPasswo rd PASSWORD amp btnSubmit Lo
70. that the URL Base value is correct Edit XML Document Screen Using this screen you can directly edit the XML Document definition for your custom field set or selector screen For Custom Field Definitions you can click on the Wand icon to edit the Custom Field Definition using the Custom Fields Wizard 113 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation For information about the XML refer to the CustomFields dtd file or the Connect Daily Source Code Guide When you save your XML document the document will be validated against the CustomFields D TD file You may want to use an XML editor to create the document and then copy and paste it into the text field Once you have created the custom input tab you must edit your calendar s definition to include the new custom tab If you edit the field definition using the Wizard all advanced settings of your Custom Field set definition will be lost Edit Custom Field or Dialog Definition ID 1 Definition Type Custom Field Definition v Last Updated 11 5 13 2 08 PM XML Data xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 lt DOCTYPE InputTab PUBLIC MH Software Inc DTD Custom Field Definitions EN http www mhsoftware com caldemo CustomFields dtd InputTab Caption Tab Caption lt Caption gt Description Put your tab s purpose here lt Description gt lt FieldList gt lt Field Required yes Published yes InputType
71. that the character set collation selected for your database is compatible with the character set you configure for Connect Daily If your database supports Unicode we strongly urge you to use it Localizing Screen Captions 1 Copy the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF classes captions properties file to a file for your language e g for Swedish copy the file to captions_sv properties 2 Localize the captions in the file The left hand side of each line is the mnemonic the program will use to find the caption Do not edit the left hand side The right hand side is the text that will be displayed In our Swedish example the line Print Print would become Print Skriv ut Notes There is a localization caption editor available for download from http zaval org products jrc editor download index html The LANG attribute for the HTML tag will follow the language for the captions being used If the language has a default character flow of right to left then a DIR RTL attribute tag will be added to the HTML tag 264 MH Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Reference The width of the menu pads are controlled by the constants in the captions properties file The constants names all start with MPW For example pwHelp controls the width of the Help menu pad If your language uses characters that are not in the ISO 8859 1 character set then you will have to create an intermediate file and use the Java SDK native2ascii conversion program Fo
72. the display and the time going across will be 24 hours Printing Notes There 1s a bug in Mozilla Firefox as of 2 0 14 that will cause the pages to print incorrectly if the view spans more than one page This bug was initially reported in December 2006 but has not been fixed yet The complete information on this bug is available at https bugzilla mozilla org show bug cgi id 363876 If you run into this issue you will have to use a different browser for printing View Search You can use the search screen to locate events that contain specific text gt Search is not case sensitive Here are some examples of search text Say you have three events San Diego Chargers San Francisco Giants San Francisco 49et s Search Text San Francisco Returns All Events Search Text San Francisco Returns San Francisco Giants San Francisco 49er s Search Text San Francisco Giants Returns San Francisco 49et s 42 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation gt Setting the All Fields option searches the title long description contact name and contact information fields gt Press Search to locate items matching the criteria You can set the program to display search results in calendar format in the User Preferences screen see User Preferences on page 29 Q Search for Events by Calendar zzz tt Calendar All Events X Search Text Search Fields 9 Title Field All Fields Start
73. the import process After three errors in a row the import link is disabled and this message is sent to you If you no longer need this import go to the referenced calendar and remove the recurring import link If you still want the link to import examine the etror message to determine what s wrong If the URL has changed you ll have to delete the recurring import link and re create it by going to View Import and selecting the impott type to create Event Add No Approval Required Message This message is sent when a new event is created and the event is already approved AND The person creating the event is an approver The person creating the event has the permissions Events are approved when entered and the permission Mail approvers when this user or group adds an event Disabling these Messages Login to the calendar and go to Edit Preferences Check the preference Disable Empty Approval Messages and save changes Event Added Event Creator Message You have created an event and that event is pending approval To stop receiving this message login to the calendar and choose Edit Preferences from the menu Check the option Disable Event and Resoutce Approval Request Messages and save changes Event Approval Deferred Message You will receive this message if you created an event or you an approver for the calendar the event is on This message is sent when an approver for the calendar has put in a comment about the e
74. the more button and select iCal Event Export Copy the URL for the calendar you want to import Note that with Google calendar you can only copy a calendar URL Copying URLs for resources or event types will not wotk If you don t see the icon your calendar administrator may have turned off iCal export You ll need to re enable it in System Configuration Sync Export Options 2 Login to Google Calendar using your browser 3 In the Other Calendars area click on the down arrow on the right side and choose Add by URL and paste in the URL Yout calendar will now be visible in your Google calendar Note Events added to Connect Daily may not be visible for up to 24 hours In our tests we saw atound 14 hours pass between the time the calendar was subscribed and an update happened There is a thread on the google support forum since 2009 for calendar asking Google to address this but there has been no response to the posts If you re using an iPhone visit the URL below to select which calendars will be synchronized to your iPhone http www google com calendar syncselect http www google com calendat syncselect For information about using Google Calendar with mobile devices visit this page Google Calendar Sync with Mobile Devices http suppott google com calendat bin topic pyrhl en amp topic 13950 For additional URL options and examples refer to Internet Calendar iCal RFC 2445 Glossary of Terms Index AJAX
75. then this part will be skipped by method is method you want to retrieve the entries by Values would be gt calendar id Items for specific calendar location id Items for a specific location resource type id Items for specific resource type gt gt gt resource id Items for specific resource gt item_type_id Items for specific event type id xml is the ID for the element you want to retrieve The edit screen for the element edit calendar edit resoutce etc displays the ID you ll need to use Putting it all together the URL to retrieve the Everything calendar from our demo site would be http www mhsoftware com caldemo rss calendar id 34 xml to retrieve the entries for the Pepsi Center the URL would be http www mhsoftware com caldemo rss resource id 3 xml If you re doing Ajax or other programming you can request the URL http www mhsoftware com caldemo rss xxx list xml where xxx is the element type i e calendar id resource id resource type id or item type id List returns something like lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt lt list type_id 32768 gt lt item gt lt id gt 40 lt id gt lt name gt College Football lt name gt lt item gt lt item gt lt id gt 20 lt id gt lt name gt Colorado Avalanche lt name gt lt item gt 70 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation list Additional Parameters To control the returned data yo
76. these files are only displayed when viewing Calendars while not logged in For information about headers and footers see Custom Headets and Footets on page 184 Style Sheet This is the name of the Cascading Style Sheet CSS that will be used when viewing a Calendar This style sheet will apply if there is not a custom header or the page being displayed does not use custom headers View Item For information on style sheets refer to Cascading Style Sheets on page 159 Image Name You can specify the name of an image associated with this Calendar If you give an image name then that image name will be exported as part of the RSS feed Default Item Style This is the custom Item Style that should be used as the default for Events on this Calendar Administrators can set this and not give Users the Assign Item Style permission locking the style for all Events on a Calendar into a specific style See Item Style Setup on page 136 Included Calendars These are Calendars that are displayed or included as part of the Calendar you are editing For example a school district wants to create a Calendar for each school but each school also observes the district holiday schedule The administrator can set up the district holiday schedule and then include that Calendar into each separate school s calendar To include a calendat s events move the calendar from the available calendars list to the Included list or the Included Calendar Title list
77. using the user name and password of demo demo http www mhsoftware com caldemo rss calendar id 7 xml username demo amp password demo See Also Filtering on Multiple Options JSON Export on page 67 Custom Name Space In addition to the standard RSS 2 0 elements Connect Daily includes additional data elements for each event The additional Items include event end time contact name last modified date etc For a complete list of additional fields and their meaning refer to the URL below RSS 1s an acronym that stands for Really Simple Syndication Essentially it is a text file format designed for publishing news articles The text is formatted XML There are many readers that let people subscribe to RSS feeds and aggregate them together in one application You can also use RSS feeds to create dynamic HTML for inclusion in websites 72 Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation A detailed description of RSS can be found at http en wikipedia org wiki Really_Simple_Syndication The specification for RSS 2 0 can be found at http www tssboatd org tss specification Filtering on Multiple Options iCal RSS and JSON Export allow multiple filters for export of data The general format of these expotts is export_type by_method by_id xxx option1 amp optionN Where export_type is either iCal RSS or jsonp by_method is calendar_id item_type_id resource_type_id or resource id by_id is the id of the ob
78. will check for the User specified locale and then for the default locale of the server For a User that has a browser specified language of de with a server default locale of en the system would check de EditCal html en EditCal html and return the first one it finds To create custom site help 1 2 3 4 5 Chapter 4 Customizing Appearance Create a directory to contain your Site Help Within that directory make a folder for the language you ll be using For example en Set the permissions on the directory so that it can be read by the servlet engine running Connect Daily Determine the name of the web page you want to display site help for e g iCal html Within the Site Help en directory create a file with the same name as the page you want to display the site help for In out example create a file named iCal html Site Help files should be HTML format but should not contain lt HTML gt lt HTML gt lt BODY gt or lt BODY gt tags The files should be encoded using UTF 8 Go to SYSTEM CONFIGURATION APPEARANCE screen Enter the path in the Site Help Path field and save changes DO NOT INCLUDE THE LANGUAGE SPECIFIC PORTION IN THE PATH Now when you browse to that page the contents of the Site Help file will be displayed at the bottom of the page 167 Chapter 5 Web Site Integration In This Chapter Web Site Integration Overview essssseessseesreessseesseesusteesr
79. with it so that when a User adds an event that requires the whole area they can just pick the Resource Group to get all of the individual areas included on their event Setup and Teardown Events Often an event requires setup time prior to the actual event and teardown time afterwards During these periods the resources are not available for use by other people Setup and Teardown Events allow you to create a duplicate event alongside your original calendar event This duplicated event assigns your resources for the period before and after your event The duplicated event is not visible to the public because it is on a calendar that the public cannot see Some things to remember are gt You must have more than a single calendar license to use setup and teardown events An additional calendar is needed to put the events on and keep the events hidden from the public gt You can only create a setup and teardown event if your event uses resources The steps to create setup and teardown events are Initial Setup 1 Create a calendar to hold your setup and teardown events 2 Set the security on the calendar so that the GUEST User cannot see the calendar Usually this means removing group User s permissions to view the calendar 3 Set the permissions on the calendar so that all people who add events have Use permissions to that calendar 4 Go tothe SYSTEM CONFIGURATION RESOURCE SCREEN sce System Configuration Resour
80. you re using the rich text editor you can insert images links format the text etc If you re not using the rich text editor here are some things you can do 50 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Any URL in the text that is on a line by itself will be converted to a link when the event is displayed The only exception 1s if the text already contains HTML link tags lt A HREF If the text contains HTML link tags then the assumption is that you ve written your own links the way you want them presented If you know HTML you can embed HTML code in your description Some simple HTML codes are lt B gt Bold lt B gt lt H1 gt Large Heading lt H1 gt lt EM gt Emphasis lt EM gt By default JavaScript is not allowed in this field but you can change this in the System Configuration screen Location You can create or select an existing location for your event To enable this feature go to System Configuration System sce System on page 133 If a user has the system wide permission Location Add then they can create new locations when they create the event If the user does not have this permission then they will only be able to select existing locations See Also Locations see Editing Locations on page 36 Resources For general information on using Resources refer to Using Resource Management on page 60 and watch the resource management tutorial http www mhsoft
81. your installation of Connect Daily from version 3 4 x to version 4 0 0 If you are upgrading from version 3 3 x or earlier to 4 0 0 please refer to Upgrading from version 3 3 x to 400 Instructions for Default Windows Installations If you used the Connect Daily downloader then you should follow these steps to upgrade If you are using a different engine or OS then skip to the Generic Application Server Instructions 1 Run the Connect Daily downloadet 2 Install the new version of Connect Daily using the downloadet 3 Copy any customized CSS or header files from the old Program Files V Connect Daily Ncdaily x x x directory to the new cdaily 3 3 x directory Generic Application Server Instructions Stop your application server Make a copy of the WEB INF configuration properties file and WEB INF styles propetties files Backup any custom EMail templates or caption translation files you have created Remove the existing calendar application directory Que BS xay gor ge Extract the zip or WAR file containing Connect Daily into the appropriate directory for your application server 6 Copy the configuration properties file you saved in step 2 to the WEB INF directory 7 Ifyou copied your database JDBC driver JARs into the WEB INF lib directory recopy them to the WEB INF lib 8 Ifyou are using your own translated caption files refer to the Installation Guide and User manual for instructions on how to ensure you have all c
82. 1 Other Options 135 P Password Reset Message 108 Passwords 23 225 228 229 Performance Testing 201 Periodic Event Import 30 50 90 92 94 Permissions for Anonymous Users 23 27 73 87 132 137 188 251 262 Permissions for Connect Daily 75 Planner View 24 25 26 38 58 PostgreSQL Configuration 212 Preferences 27 Preferences disabling 162 Printing Issues 121 145 Program Operation 11 publicAdd jsp 187 Purge Database 135 253 R Recurring Event Types 56 Recurring Events 56 Recurring Events Questions 260 Recurring Import Link Disabled Message 104 Recurs 50 Reference 265 Religious Observances 110 271 272 Removing Icons 162 Repair Security Screen 82 Reports 43 Resetting Your Password 86 Resource 275 Resource Approval Deferred Message 108 Resource Approval Message 108 Resource Groups 60 Resource Management 261 Resource Management Overview 58 Resource Permissions 78 81 85 Resource Planner View or Gantt Chart 274 Resource Request Denied Message 109 Resource Request Message 109 Resource Type 276 Resources 49 Resources disabling 162 Rollup Calendars 75 77 276 RSS Really Simple Syndication 277 RSS Export 67 130 169 RSS Import 92 S Scalability 201 Search 40 Section 508 271 Security 23 49 131 Security and Permissions 72 Security Management Tools 80 Security Overview
83. 2 Take ownership of events this User or Group approves When a User has this permission and that User approves an event added by another User then they will become the owner of the event Unless the originator has the permission Edit events created by others they will not be able to edit the event Event Types Resource Types Resource Groups Permissions Permission Description Delete this xxxx Users or Groups that have this permission can delete this Event Type Resource Type or Resource Group Edit this xxxx User or Groups that have this permission can edit this Event Type Resource Type or Resource Group Manage Security Users or Groups that have this permission can manage the security for this for this xxxx Event Type Resource Type or Resource Group View Usage of Users or Groups that have this permission can view this Event Type this xxxx Resource Type or Resource Group including calendars for this Object Type Use this xxxx Users or Groups that have this permission can create use of the Event Type Resource Type or Resource Group when creating calendar events Events will only be displayed if the user has permission to view the calendar the event is on 79 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Resource Permissions These permissions can be assigned for an individual Resource Tip Remember that the User must have View and Use Permissions to the parent resou
84. 45 Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification iCalendar Many programs allow you to subscribe to remote calendars and have them appear transparently with the rest of your schedule Some programs that support iCalendar include gt Apple iCal device and desktop gt Google Calendar gt Microsoft Outlook and Live Mail gt Mozilla Lightning gt and many others The RFC for iCal is available from http www ietf org rfc rfc5545 txt Index Resource A resoutce is an item or location that is used by people for events Some sample resources would be gt Vehicle LCD Projector gt Conference Room 271 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Reference Index Resource Type Resource Type is a category for resources Sample resource types would be Audio Visual LCD Projectors Equipment gt VCRs gt Video Cameras Facility gt Conference Room 1 gt Conference Room 2 gt Auditorium Vehicles gt Truck gt Car Index Rollup Calendars Connect Daily allows you to combine calendars so that you can view different calendars together For example the city of Denver has teams for the following sports gt Basketball gt Football gt Hockey gt Lacrosse gt Soccer Each team has their own calendar so visitors can see games just for their sport Connect Daily allows you to create a Sports Calendar that would combine all of the individual team calend
85. 719 694 5637 Non Hosted US and Canadian Customers To use this feature you must signup for a supported text message service Currently ClickATell is the only supported provider Visit their web site http www clickatell com and signup for an account Once you create the account place create a file named SMSTransport properties in the cdaily x x x WEB INF directory named SMSTransport properties The text file should contain the contents shown below WITH YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATION in the areas delimited with lt gt SMS Transport properties for the SMSJ Library smsj clickatell username your username smsj clickatell password your password smsj clickatell apiid your api id sender your sender phone number smsj clickatell protocol https smsj clickatell extratext amp mo 1 transport org marre sms transport clickatell ClickatellTransport See Also Creating Event Reminders on page 100 145 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 147 Chapter 2 Mobile Operation Connect Daily supports mobile devices with special HTML pages designed specifically for them When we talk about mobile devices we re really referring to small display units like smart phones MP3 players etc If you re using a larger form factor device like a tablet the standard version of Connect Daily works well In This Chapter Accessing the Mobile Vetsions ue iter tette teretes esee i
86. A mouse over is provided to display the full event name and start stop time for the event gt When you click on an event to view the details the information is displayed in a dialog that appears in line on the page not as a new window Ifan event spans onto a new day it will only be shown on the second day if the the end time is after the day view planner start time In other words a concert that ends at 2 00 AM won t span onto the next day gt When show event stop time is enabled this view only shows the start stop time combination when the start time or duration changes gt The week view link is not displayed Non Bannerized Wrapping In this view if an event spans multiple days it s drawn as a new event on each day that it occurs Other Differences Long event descriptions wrap downwards When show event stop time is enabled this view prints the start stop time for each event gt When you click on an event for details the information is displayed in a pop up window gt If an event spans onto another day it s drawn on the second day regardless of what time it ends So if you have an event that starts at 8 00 PM and ends at 2 00 AM it will be shown on each day This view has a problem in the sort order of events if a time zone change causes the event s start date to change Enable AddThis Social Networking Support Setting this option to Yes enables the AddThis com share button to allow your users to sh
87. BCUserID calendar J J J Di DI DI BCPassword calendar BCDriver org postgresql Driver Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere Configuration 1 Copy the JDBC Driver files to your application server s path or the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF lib directory 2 Create the database using the dbinit command dbinit databasename 208 MH Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading 3 If necessary modify the startup script for the SOL Anywhere engine to include the new database 4 Load the database schema dbisql q e dbn databasename dbf databasename uid userid pwd password InstallationDirectoryNcdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF sql SYB_SQLA calschema sql 5 Edit the configuration properties file putting in the configuration entries for your database DBObjectClass com MHSoftware db support SybaseSQLADB DBCConnectString jdbc sybase Tds machine ame 2638 ServiceName DBN DBCDriver com sybase jdbc2 jdbc SybDriver DBCPassword calendar DBCUserID calendar J n J J J Note The character shows a line continuation Do not type the character For additional information on the connection parameter c xxx refer to the Sybase SOL Anywhere documentation Converting from One Database to Another If you need to convert your Connect Daily database from one engine to another a program is provided to do this For example if you want to convert from Micro
88. Calendar 63 273 H Hardware Requirements 201 Headers and Footers 164 165 186 Help 167 Holidays 110 Hosted Version Operation 153 197 257 How Connect Daily s Ajax Integration Works 189 How Events Are Included On Calendars 30 47 134 144 IBM DB2 Configuration 209 iCal 63 90 129 162 275 1Cal disabling 162 iCalendar RFC 5545 275 Icons 161 IFrame 183 IFRAME 183 255 275 IFrame Integration 32 169 183 IFRAME Short Codes 180 IFrame Widgets 184 IIS Microsoft Internet Information Server 218 219 229 236 Implementation Notes on MD5 Authenticator 225 226 Import Holidays 46 110 271 Import iCal Events 90 251 Import License Data 124 270 Importing Data 88 Importing Events 88 90 92 Included Calendars 29 133 144 Initial Setup 19 155 Install JavaMail API 215 Installation 173 196 Installation and Upgrading 195 Installation Overview 204 Installation Questions 196 256 Integrating Microsoft IIS 6 with Connect Daily 204 214 218 237 257 Integrating Microsoft IIS 7 with Connect Daily 219 Integrating Microsoft IIS 8 with Connect Daily 222 Integrating Microsoft IIS with Connect Daily 217 Internationalization and Localization 267 Internet Calendar iCal RFC 5545 Export 63 129 273 Introduction to Connect Daily 4 0 0 7 iPhone iPad and iPod Support 63 147 149 151 Item List Screen 116 Item St
89. Connect Daily Installation Guide and User ventri Contents Connect Daily 1 Introduction to Connect Daily 4 0 0 8 Program Operation 11 Tutorials Difference Between Connect Daily Versions tette tenete tete tnte tete tete tete tetentnte tete ntnte nen 19 Initial Setups Loosing IntovConnect Daily Dc MAING GROUPS seasversesssesssssaneversivascetsessstaactssscesdeaesustatesstetaasastaasunastensbscauesdiaaetstinsastes ossstaastataunasioeseetacsasenstdtistanteacsemeeNtaReN Adding U SOLS M Adding and Editing Resource Types d ve n Adding and lafatiter deis opium t gucio Adding Calendars D Add Calendar Wizard Setup Public Calendar Viewing Adding Event Dy pes acca e M M PEREI Editing Locations m Viewing Calendars MH Month Weeki Day View c rad M m9 luna View Search s T or ius e as Advanced Ev iid M Usage Reporte cue auctae etta DU ER EU GERE G
90. Customizing Appearance Exporting The various export screens will export the data as you enter it You should be aware that not all programs will handle importing HTML correctly Disabling the Rich Text Editor The Rich Text Editor can be disabled by going to System Configuration Appearance Set the option for Enable Rich Text editor for event description to No When you save the header the customized header will be displayed at the top of the page allowing you to see how it will look The header is stored in the custom lt language gt directory If you want more flexibility than the editor provides you can edit the file directly If you are using the hosted version of Connect Daily the screen will have a link to the transfer files screen see File Transfer Utility on page 153 where you can download it If you are using the installed version of Connect Daily the screen will display the path to the file to be edited Edit Internal Header Position Left Center Right Width 800 Pixels Background Color white e Border Style none Y Width 1 Pixels Color black e Header Contents Font 7 Size A X 27 Mr Format None IB T U S E amp pO Save Changes Chapter 4 Customizing Appearance Customizing Event Display and Mouse overs Connect Daily allows you to create your own custom class to control the text displayed for a calendar event and the mouse over tool tip text for Ite
91. Daily as a WAR When Sun Microsystem created Java servlets they specified a package format called a WAR file WAR is short for Web ARchive A WAR file is really a ZIP file with a file extension of WAR rather than ZIP Normal zip utility programs can be used to create and modify WAR files The default ConnectDaily war file available on our web site can be deployed without any modifications or customization Download the WAR file and deploy it using the appropriate application server tools If you will be using a different database refer to the SQL Database Setup topic Clustering Connect Daily is compatible with clustering This topic provides you with information on how to deploy Connect Daily correctly in a cluster environment First for each member of the cluster you must create a distinct unique WAR deployment file Please follow these steps to create each WAR file Add the configuration setting ClusterMaster lt master host name gt 212 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading to the WEB INF configuration properties file Replace master host name gt with the host name of the master computer in the cluster It doesn t really matter which computer in the cluster is named just name one This will ensure that only the cluster master computer starts background processing threads If you don t set this then each member of the cluster will send out notifications and reminders Create a single WAR fi
92. Date 11 5 2013 Z End Date 12 5 2013 i Search All times displayed relative to America Denver Advanced Search The Advanced Search Screen feature is available with the Small Business Pack Corporate Pack and Enterprise Pack versions of Connect Daily The Advanced Search Screen allows you to search for multiple criteria at once For example you can select the Avalanche Calendar and the Nuggets calendar and see the two calendars combined into one view You could also add as a Resource the Pepsi Center This would restrict the view to show only games from those two calendars that were held at the Pepsi Center Using this screen you can filter or combine calendars based on gt Calendar gt Event Type gt Resources Used For each of these a mover is available to let you select the items When you pick events from one category Calendar Event Type or Resource any events matching the selections for that category are displayed For example I pick Event Types of concert and game Any events of either of those two types will be displayed If you set options for more than one category like Calendar and Event Type then an event must be on one of the selected calendars and must match one of the selected event types to display You can open or close the category selection area by clicking on the expand icon plus or minus sign You can also restrict the events that appear by specifying a date range or search text that
93. Edit the ldap properties file located in the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF directory Refer to the help topic Idap propetties Reference Guide on page 227 6 Itis strongly recommended that you configure Connect Daily to use SSL communications between the browser and the web server running Connect Daily Failure to do so may result in compromise of your network security 7 Ifyou want Connect Daily to synchronize its group memberships with your LDAP source edit each Connect Daily user group and set the LDAP equivalent groups 224 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading Once you have all the steps completed and verified the LDAP authentication is working properly stop the Connect Daily setvice and restart it If it doesn t work refer to the topic for Debugging LDAP AD Authentication If desired you can customize the included source file for this provider and override how it works If you do this you will need to change the class name and deploy the compiled file into the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF classes sub directory Set the AuthenticationProvider entry in the configuration properties file to point to your new class name See Also Automatically Creating Users Configuring Active Directory Authentication This topic describes using LDAP authentication against an MS Active Directory tree Please do the following before contacting technical support on this provider 1 Please read the following documentation cl
94. I IURI HU RUIT CURE HI IR And Creating and Editing Calendar Event s ciccessssiscsissssesosesessssiscsissasessscsesessiasnsssstssssesedosesessissasassiasesesebecadscndsssiasatsoesesesesnsesaas rcg PR Description ad Pod Resources Recuts tee Attachments Change Comments Approving VIS E Approval Screeti M hard m hcic ExCepilOns M A d Commonly Asked Questions About Recurring Events seen tenente 59 Using Resource Management esee niter teen itii Intent iee diis tel trei e F ite eese situadas Resource Management Overview tentent tenete tenente Setting Up Connect Daily for Resource Management Assigning Resources to an Event Apptoving Resource Usage Resource Approval Screen Resource Groups candi ninth enc nine tepeuse tese n Ee bare eae Chapter 1 Connect Daily Setup atid Teatdown Events M lo pnnpB o MM Comma Separated Value CSV Internet Calendar iCal RFC 5545 Export JSON Ex port RSS Toxo Ooi M
95. Microsoft IIS and will be using Apache Tomcat as your servlet engine please refer to Integrating Microsoft IIS with Connect Daily using Apache Tomcat see Integrating Microsoft IIS 6 with Connect Daily on page 214 for instructions 210 MH Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading Edit Configuration Files web xml In the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF directory where you unpacked the application files the web xml file contains configuration instructions for both the application and the application server The default web xml is for API 2 3 containers You can adjust the application timeout by editing the session timeout parameter in the web xml file Install JavaMail API Connect Daily requires the Java Mail API files from Oracle Corporation We don t distribute these files as part of Connect Daily because most application servers already have them installed If this is a new server installation you don t already have the Java Mail API installed download and install the JavaMail API from Oracle http www otacle com technetwork java javamail 138606 html Download this file and place all of the JAR files in your application server s class path or the Connect Daily cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF lib directory Oracle 9i Application Server These instructions have been tested on Oracle 9iAS 9 0 3 Steps 1 in the OC4J j2ee home applications directory create a sub directory named MHSoft 2 Within this directory crea
96. November and December How do add a recurring event that does not follow any pattern Add the event as a specific Dates Type Event and in the specific dates text box add the dates for each of your meetings 59 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Using Resource Management Resource Management Overview Resource Management is a feature of Connect Daily that allows you to manage things like your facility equipment and other Resources in your organization While you do not have to use the Resource Management capabilities of Connect Daily there are some good benefits if you do Prevent people from double booking a Resource gt See at a glance when a Resource is available by using the Resource Planner View sce Planner View on page 40 display gt Provide notifications to others within your organization that a Resource is used To get started you should first watch the Resource Management Tutorial http www mhsottware com tutorials ResourceManagement Tip If you want to ensure Resources ate used for each event there is a system wide setting in the resource configuration screen see System Configuration Resources on page 131 that can be set to warn Users if events are created without any Resources You can also create and specify an Item Style that will be assigned to events that do not have a Resource assigned to them Setting Up Connect Daily for Resource Management 1 Creat
97. OLS OPTIONS from the menu Select the option for Content In the Fonts and Colors section click on the Advanced button Using the dropdown set the Minimum font size to none Special Notes about Internet Explorer 6 and 7 By default IE will not print background colors for events If you are coloring your events and you want to print them in color here s what to do From the menu choose TOOLS INTERNET Options Change to the Advanced tab and scroll down to the printing section Check the option for Print background colors and images 143 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation How Events Are Included On Calendars Overview An event in Connect Daily can be displayed on a single calendar or it can be displayed on multiple calendars By default a calendar event is displayed on the calendar it s assigned to You can control which other calendars the event is displayed on by using the calendar inclusion system The calendar inclusion system can wotk in two ways gt Standard Mode Inclusion Ala Carte Calendar Selection Inclusion To help explain the two concepts here s a hypothetical company structure we ll use Company Administration Sales Accounting Manufacturing Shipping Using our company structure above you can create a calendar for each of these five departments and for the company as a whole You can also create an Administration calendar that will include the departments Sales and Acc
98. Thanksgiving Connect Daily allows you to schedule an Exception for that specific day or you can use the Bulk Exception Add screen see Bulk Exception Add on page 110 to add Exceptions to all Recurring Events 58 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Commonly Asked Questions About Recurring Events How can add something for every day or every weekday Make the event a Weekly Event and set the days appropriately by selecting all days or just the weekdays How do I add an event that recurs every other week 1 Add the Event as Type Monthly 2 Set the Recurrence to Every Other 3 Select the appropriate weekday 4 Change to the starting date box and select a date that corresponds to the starting date for the event The starting date must fall on the same day of the week as the Recurrence Type for the event The event will now be shown every other week two weeks from the starting date How do add a quarterly event Add an Event set the Type to Annual Set the Recutrence options as desired i e first Monday day 1 etc In the months block choose January April July October Our group meets the 4th Wednesday of each month except for November and December when we meet on the 3rd Wednesday How do add this Add two annual events On the first event set the event for the 4th Wednesday and then select the months January October On the second event set the event for the 3rd Wednesday and select
99. The same things you do to optimize a regular web page apply to Connect Daily events In general you should put a pretty good description of your event in the long description field for Connect Daily The more content you have for your event the more likely your calendar will score highly for the event s key words We also recommend that you enable the option to Display Event Detail in Week View and List View in the Setup Public Calendar Viewing screen see Setup Public Calendar Viewing on page 33 If you enable this feature then robots indexing the week view and list view pages will see the complete details for your event If you are displaying your calendar in an JFRAME on page 271 it will still be crawled by search engines By default the search engine links will open the calendar directly not the IFRAME You can force your page to be displayed in an IFRAME using Javascript Here s some sample code to do this 251 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Frequently Asked Questions lt SCRIPT TYPE text javascript gt if self location top location top location href http www sample com calendar html lt SCRIPT gt Place this code in the custom footer see Custom Headers and Footers on page 184 for your calendar Replace the URL with the URL to your page containing the IFRAME Installation Questions How do I upload Connect Daily to My Web Server Typical Question I m trying to figure out how to insta
100. Twitter on your behalf You can revoke this permission if desired If you re setting up a Facebook Page once you login a list of pages you manage will be displayed and you can select the page for this account gt For Facebook User accounts you will have to re login every couple of months or so gt You must leave the account logged in This is because Connect Daily may make scheduled posts on your behalf and it will need that token to show that it has permission to do so gt Any user who has Use permissions to the Social Media Account will be able to make posts using Connect Daily Think carefully about your permissions if this is an issue Edit Social Media Account null m 1 D Name Type Facebook Account v Status Not Authenticated Login Save Changes Add Creating a Social Media Post If you haven t already done so please watch our social media integration tutorial Shockwave Tutorial http www mhsottware com tutorials SocialNetworkIntegration MP4 Tutorial http www mhsottware com tutorials SocialNetworkIntegration SocialNetworkIntegration mp4 Once you create your event in Connect Daily you can post to your social media accounts about your event To create a post go to the Edit Event screen and click on the Social Media Icon The Create or Edit Social Media Posts form will appear From the Account List select which Social Media Account you wish to post to The Type dropdown lets you select the typ
101. a Group with the appropriate permissions and make the 20 people members of that Group Users can belong to multiple Groups and the permissions they receive from each Group are added up If Use Minimal Security Levels is set then each new User is made a member of all Groups When you create an Item like a calendar you are given the right to control permissions to that Item Using the Manage Security Dialog screen see Manage Security Dialog on page 82 you can assign Users and Groups to have specific permissions to the Calendar or Resource 74 BW Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Permissions for Anonymous Users Connect Daily allows people who are not logged in to view calendars This section refers to Users who are not logged in as he Public This section explains how to configure security so that only the information you want is visible If a User sees the View html pages and they are not logged in they are running as a Public User On the SYSTEM CONFIGURATION SECURITY screen there is an entry for Public User Name If this value is set then the public has the permissions of this user In other words if the Public User Name entry is GUEST then the public can view calendars that User GUEST has permission to To make a calendar hidden from the public you need to remove all permissions for that calendar from User GUEST If the GUEST User is a member of any User Groups you will also need to remove
102. a free 30 day trial User Name and Password are only required if the public cannot view the calendar or you wantto display a calendar the default public user does not have permission to Date Time Format is used when an event with a date and time is displayed Date Format and Time Format are individually controlled by Settings General Disable Caching By default the plugin caches generated data for 3600 seconds Caching the data makes your web site go faster and gives your users a better experience If you edit your calendar changes might not show up immediately You can temporarily disable this by checking the box and cavinn Mini Calendar and Simple List of Events Widgets The mini calendar widget displays a small calendar where days that have events are styled differently The simple list of events widget displays the events for a specified date range in a simple list format You can drop either of these widgets into your page design 172 Hi Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Web Site Integration Example Mini Calendar Widget Example Simple List of Events Widget EVENTS CALENDAR UPCOMING CONCERTS December 2012 Friday 28 Dec 2012 MT W Frogs Gone Fishin Nobody Beats the Drum Trombone Shorty amp Orleans Avenue Yonder Mountain String Band Saturday 29 Dec 2012 STS9 The String Cheese Incident Wish We Were Floyd Clicking on a day brings up a dialog listing that day s events
103. abase you will need to put in plain text passwords by editing the Users table To edit the Users table you will have to use a database tool that lets you directly edit the Users table or use SQL Update commands to set the passwords For example Update users set password Admin where user_name Admin You can run individual update statements via the SQL Command Window utility available in the Database configuration screen Once you have followed these steps create your link in the form 22 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation http hostname CALENDAR PATH login html txtUserID USER NAME amp txtPasswo rd PASSWORD amp btnSubmit Login For hosted Users the CALENDAR PATH portion would not be present The URL would be something like http calendar yourdomain com login html txtUserID USER NAME amp txtPassw ord PASSWORD amp btnSubmit Login amp target ViewCal html amp calendar id 11 Replace the USER NAME value with the name of the User you would like to have the person be logged in undet Replace the PASSWORD value with the password for the User account you are logging in with The page specified by target will be invoked and all parameters not relating to login will be passed as part of the request See Also Calendar Display Arguments see Calendar Display Options on page 189 Adding Groups User Groups can simplify security management Rather than assig
104. alendars available on the system whose events you would like to include in the calendar you are creating Selecting Calendars double clicking on an Available Calendar moves it to the Selected Calendar box These are calendars you choose to combine with your new calendar Users who can see this calendar default groups are Admins and Users You can select any of the Available Users or Groups by double clicking on the name and moving it to the Selected Users ot Groups box This gives permission to view events in your new calendar to those you select Users who can add events to this calendar default groups are Admins and Users You can select any of the Available Users ot Groups by double clicking on the name and moving it to the Selected Users or Groups box This gives permission to add events to your new calendar to those you select Users who can approve events for this calendar the default approver is the creator of the calendar Event approvals are a way of assuring that events are approved by someone before they are displayed on the calendar You can select any of the Available Users or Groups by double clicking on the name and moving it to the Selected Users or Groups box This assigns permission to approve an event prior to being posted on your new calendar to those you select If your events do not require approval your Selected Users or Groups box should be empty Finish by clicking on Create Calendar Setup Public Calenda
105. allation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation CN Domain Admins which would match a person who is a member of any group named Domain Admins regardless of the context Another example would be DC testing DC mhsoftware DC com which would match any group defined in testing mhsoftware com Each time a user logs in the user s group membership in the directory will be reconciled They will be added and removed from groups based on the mappings you create Tips gt Ifyou don t set a value for this field then users will not be added or removed from the group gt If you are not sure what the complete distinguished name for a group is use a tool like Xplorer to browser your directory tree and look at a few users gt Ifyou enable debug mode in ldap properties each user s group memberships will be printed on login You can view this in the log files or in the audit trail During initial setup you might want to make sure that the Connect Daily Admins group is the last one you set up If you enter an LDAP equivalent group incorrectly then you ll be removed from the Admin group on login You would have to do a manual database edit to undo the error If you re having trouble getting a regular expression right use an online tool to test them Search for java regular expression tester Users Select the Users to put in your Group by using the mover Mark the Users you want in the Available Users box and then click o
106. allback MyCallbackFunct ion amp maxcount 12 See Also Filtering on Multiple Options RSS Export Connect Daily allows exporting data in RSS 2 0 XML format Using RSS export you can get event data from your calendar and reformat it for display on your web site For example you want to have a list of today s events on the first page of your web site Using the RSS module you can fetch the calendar data as XML reformat it and display it on your web site Doing this will require some knowledge of web programming topics End users can also use news feed aggregation software to view your feed on their desktop RSS is an acronym that stands for Really Simple Syndication Essentially it is a text file format designed for publishing news articles The text is formatted XML There are many readers that let people subscribe to RSS feeds and aggregate them together in one application You can also use RSS feeds to create dynamic HTML for inclusion in websites A detailed description of RSS can be found at http en wikipedia org wiki Really_Simple_Syndication 69 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation The specification for RSS 2 0 can be found at http www tssboatd org tss specification Fetching RSS data from Connect Daily The format of the RSS URL will be something like http calendar yourhost name your path rss by method id xml your path is the path to your calendar If you are using a hosted calendar
107. and account lockout refer to Security Configuration see Security on page 131 gt Things this Group has permissions for This section contains a list of Objects that the User has been specifically granted permission to If you have Manage Security permission for the Object in question you can click on the link to access the Manage Security Dialog on page 82 for that Event For information about system permissions refer to System wide Permissions see System Wide Permissions on page 81 Last Signin The date and time of last login using this account Last IP Address Host name or IP Address that User last logged in from Last Browser Browser identification string that the User s browser supplied on their last login g pp gl Changing Passwords Users can change their password by using the User Preferences Screen To view the User Preferences Screen choose EDIT PREFERENCES from the system menu Once you re on the preferences screen click on the key icon The change password dialog shown below will appear 25 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation System administrators can change the password for a User through the Edit Users screen Select SYSTEM SECURITY USERS and click on the pencil icon to the left of the User name EMail Address gsexton mhsoftware com Default Calendar George Change Password New Password IIT Confirm Password Disable Event and
108. and Edit Events calendar edit existing events and delete events Tutorial Attp www mbhsott wate com tutorials AddEditEvents MP4 see Add and Edit Events Tutorial ware com tutorials AddEditEvents A ddEditEvents mp4 Facebook and Twitter Shockwave This tutorial demonstrates using Connect Daily to publish events Integration http www mhsoft to Facebook and Twitter ware com tutorials SocialNetworkIat egration MP4 http www mhsoft ware com tutorials SocialNetworkIat egration SocialNet workIntegration m p4 14 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Mobile Viewer Shockwave This demonstrates using the mobile view pages on a smart phone http www mhsoft wate com tutorials Mobile Viewet MP4 see Tutorial MP4 Mobile Viewer http www mbhsott ware com tutorials Mobile Viewet M obile Viewer mp4 Notifications and Shockwave This tutorial shows how to receive EMail when Events are added Reminders bttp www mhsoft to the calendar and how to receive reminders about upcoming ware com tutorials events NotificationsAnd Reminders MP4 see Tutorial MP4 Notifications and Reminders http www mhsoft warec com tutot als NotificationsAnd Reminders Notific ationsAndReminde ts mp4 15 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Recurrence and Exceptions Resource Management Synchronization Program Program Operation Shockwave This t
109. appings icon Right click on the handler mappings section and choose Add Module Mapping For Request path enter dll From the Module dropdown list select IsapiModule DO NOT SELECT IsapiFilterModule it s not the same thing For Executable select CATALINA_BASE bin native isapi_redirect dll For Name enter Tomcat Redirector Click on the Request Restrictions button and then click on the Access tab Set access to Execute and click on OK to finish the Request Restrictions dialog and OK to finish the Edit Script Map dialog A dialog will appear asking if you want to allow this ISAPI extension Select Yes In the connections pane double click on the top level server Then double click on Handler Mappings In the handler mapping list ensure there is not a Disabled mapping for dIl IsapiModule If there is a disabled mapping remove it This would override and disable the Tomcat Redirector Click on the site in the left pane and then in the right pane double click on the Handler Mappings icon Ensure the ISAPI redirector is enabled If it s not click on Edit Feature Permissions in the Action Pane and grant Read Script and Execute Permissions Step 4 Test Installation If you have Tomcat running either standalone or as a service you should now be able to connect to the machine and access the calendar Open a browser and enter the URL http host name calendar login html You should be presented with the cale
110. aptions in your file 9 Restart your application server Upgrading from version 3 3 x to 4 0 0 Please completely read these instructions BEFORE beginning your upgrade process Backup SQL Database Users Using the appropriate utility for your RDBMS create a backup of your SQL Database 236 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading Instructions for Default Windows Installations If you used the Connect Daily downloader then you should follow these steps to upgrade If you are using a different engine or OS then skip to the Generic Application Server Instructions L 2 Stop the Connect Daily service Run the Connect Daily Downloader and install the new version of Connect Daily This will leave the old version intact Stop the Connect Daily service Copy any customized header footer html files as well as any modified CSS files from the old cdaily x x x directory to the cdaily 4 0 0 directory Start the Connect Daily Service Database scripts will automatically be run You do not have to do anything for Database Updates Generic Application Service Upgrade Steps Woe amp qe L Stop your application server Backup your cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF configuration properties file Backup any custom EMail templates or caption translation files you have created Remove the existing calendar application directory Extract the zip or WAR file containing Connect Daily into the appropriate
111. are events to Facebook Twitter and many others Time Zone This is the default time zone for users who view calendars without being logged in If the Edit Preferences option is set then visitors will be able to change the time zone used for time conversion Planner Start and End Time This is the time range that is used for the single day planner view Save your changes Adding Event Types Event Types are Event categories Examples would be class birthday anniversary concert etc To add Event Types go to EDIT EVENT TYPES If you do not see Event Types listed on the menu dropdown then you do not have the privilege to edit this Contact your system administrator Once you select Event Types from the menu you can edit an Event Type by clicking on the pencil icon to the left of the name You can also add an Event Type by clicking on the Add Type button at the bottom of the list Remember that for Users to be able to assign Event Types to an Event they must have View and Use permissions for that Event Type 35 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation If you have the Global configuration setting Izem styles are linked to event types set to yes then additional fields will be present to let you control the colors and fonts for events of this type For information on the colors and font options refer to Item Style Setup on page 136 Editing Locations Connect Daily allows you to create locations A loc
112. ars into one calendar Visitors can now see all of the games happening on one day without having to visit different calendars Index 272 Hi Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Reference RSS Really Simple Syndication RSS is an acronym that stands for Really Simple Syndication Essentially it is a text file format designed for publishing news articles The text is formatted XML There are many readers that let people subscribe to RSS feeds and aggregate them together in one application You can also use RSS feeds to create dynamic HTML for inclusion in websites A detailed description of RSS can be found at http en wikipedia org wiki Really_Simple_Syndication The specification for RSS 2 0 can be found at http www rtssboard org rss specification Index Servlet Servlets are a technology developed by Sun Microsystems for creating dynamic web applications They ate similar in concept to Microsoft Active Server Pages or PHP or CGI programs Sun Microsystems has since been acquired by Oracle Corporation Many vendors support Java Servlets Some vendors include BEA IBM Oracle Adobe and others Index Virtual Host In Internet terminology host is just another word for a computer For example if I refer to the host name for our website I would refer to www mhsoftware com When a web browser sends a request for a web page to a server it tells the web server the name of the web host that it wants to get the
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114. at appears in line on the page not as a new window Ifan event spans onto a new day it will only be shown on the second day if the the end time is after the day view planner start time In other words a concert that ends at 2 00 AM won t span onto the next day When show event stop time is enabled this view only shows the start stop time combination when the start time or duration changes gt The week view link is not displayed Non Bannerized Wrapping In this view if an event spans multiple days it s drawn as a new event on each day that it occurs 38 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Other Differences Long event descriptions wrap downwards When show event stop time is enabled this view prints the start stop time for each event gt When you click on an event for details the information is displayed in a pop up window Ifan event spans onto another day it s drawn on the second day regardless of what time it ends So if you have an event that starts at 8 00 PM and ends at 2 00 AM it will be shown on each day 7 gt This view has a problem in the sort order of events if a time zone change causes the event s start date to change ViewWeek html Week View ViewDay html Day View More All Events Select View All Events v November2013 27 28 29 30 31 2 Denver Coin Show 7 00 pm 4 00 pm 8 00 pm Halloween Holid
115. at directory When you upload a file Connect Daily will check to see if it exists in the repository If it does each calendar event will contain a reference to one file Anti Virus Command This optional value specifies a command to scan uploaded files for viruses A sample command would be C AV SCAN EXE REPORT 1j SECURE 0j 0 is replaced with the name of the file to scan and 1 is an optional report file name for the scanner output If the exit value of the process is non zero the file is treated as infected and deleted Any data written to the report file or to standard out is displayed to the User While it is not required that you use a virus scanner we recommend it See Also Attachments Tab Appearance This screen contains options for configuring the appearance of your Connect Daily calendar system Month View Calendar Format See Also Differences in Month Views Connect Daily supports two different month view formats Bannerized View In this view if an event spans multiple days it s drawn as a single event box that overlays the days that it occurs on Other Differences 118 HM Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation This view truncates long event descriptions This makes the display more compact and allows the banner view A mouse over is provided to display the full event name and start stop time for the event gt When you click on an event to view the
116. ation can be directly assigned to an event or resources can be marked as at that location Here s an example You are a large college with two campuses Each campus has several buildings Within each building are many rooms You would create a location for each campus Then create each building and assign it s parent location to be the campus it s on Finally you would create the resources using the Edit Resources screen and assign their location To edit a location select it from the dropdown Location list To create a new one click on the add location icon or button Name This is the name of the location Address The street address of the location This address will be used to create map links for that location You can specify your map service provider in System Configuration System Latitude amp Longitude If these values are present they will override the street address for the map Use this if you want to specify a location that doesn t have an accurate street address or the street address is too vague for your needs Enter these values in decimal degree format Parent Location As discussed above locations can be hierarchical For example you could create hierarchy for Colorado Adams County Brighton Commerce City Westminster You would then be able to view the calendar for any location in the hierarchy Options Verified Check this option if the location data has been verified View calendars for thi
117. ation of a resource For example if you have two campuses you can define each campus and then the buildings on each campus and finally assign each resource to the building location Then when you view calendar by location each resource within that location will have it s events broken out separately See Also Locations see Editing Locations on page 36 Planner View on page 40 Active Marking a resource inactive will prevent it from showing up on the create event or view calendar screens This allows you to hide the resource and still maintain it s history Shared Resource When selected multiple events can use the Resource at the same time without generating a conflict An example would be a nursery which must be staffed during an event but multiple events can share the nursery during the same period 28 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Description This is a description of the Resource By default this is not displayed anywhere but there is a system configuration setting that allows you to specity that descriptions should be displayed on the View Item page Edit Resource 2006 Stargate Shuttle eana MPO 46 Vehicle 2006 Stargate Shuttle None 7 21 passenger shuttle requires CDL licensed driver Manage Security Add Resource User Preferences The User Preferences screen can be accessed by choosing EDIT PREFERENCES from the program menu Alternatively preferences for
118. ault style sheet makes the column widths of each day the same If you have a few events that are very wide all on the same day or days of the week you can change the style sheet to let each day s column auto size To do this remove the width line from the style definition for TD MHVCDayCell and TD MHVCTodayCell Adjust the printing style sheet see Cascading Style Sheets on page 159 used by Connect Daily You can change the font sizes used for printing by editing this file The default print size for event titles is 6 points This is a fairly small size and few people will want to make it smaller The default print style sheet is css print css You can specify a different one in the System Configuration Appearance screen gt Ifthe printout is for internal use use a larger paper size like Legal or 11x17 tabloid size It is important to note that sometimes you just can t make things fit Your only choice is to decrease your point size or increase the paper size Example A customer had events in their calendar where the title was 22 characters wide and the event was present on each of 7 days The number of characters present was 154 characters Printing 154 characters in a page width of 7 5 inches requires a point size of 3 5pts This 1s well below the ability of most people to read Special Notes about FireFox FireFox has a feature to limit the minimum font size with a default setting of 10pt You can override this by Choosing TO
119. ay Food and Gift Festival Hoodie Allen VIP Connects Happy H Deer Tick 7 00 pm 9 00 am 7 00 pm Living Colour Grizmatik Scandinavian Christmas Fair Trick or Treat Train at th lt Uni ne nea Chris Daniels Robert J Nuggets Sacrament Karl Denson s Tiny Uni Denver Botanic Garden Home Decorating amp Re 8 00 pm Streetlight Manifesto Zombie Ball 6 30 pm Ca Mile High Farms Pumpl Empire ofthe Sun 8 00 pm Avs Stars Denver Art Museum Fr le ai TT Finch BoomBox 7 00 pm Denver Botanic Garden auntings at the Hang 2 00 pm M Doughty E Nuggets vs Portland 900 am The Motet 7 15 pm Home for the Holidays Westernaires Horsecar Bop Skizzum Tanner Gun Show 2 25 pm pou 7 30 pm 8 00 pm Broncos vs Redskins E As Freedom Fades 6 00 pm iud Nc Mae S Gaelic Storm Avs vs Canadiens Radiolab Live Colorado Rising Flood Jonas Brothers P 8 00 pm ob Delaney Rapids Vancouver The Greatest Carved Pt Radiolab Live twenty o Mountain Standard Tim 7 00 pm enty one pilots g 9 00 pm The Motet Manhattan Transfer pn 8 00 pm The Devil Makes Three SoMo Tame Impala 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Holiday Food and Gift F Denver Zoo Free Day 5 30pm 7 00 pm 7 00 pm Colorado Country Christmas Lamb of God w Killswit Ignite Boulder 22 Nuggets vs Atlanta l Home Decorating amp Re 7 00 pm 7 30 pm Pink Floyd Laser Spect Ski amp Snowboard Expo NST Ends Chomp Chomp Attack Avs vs Predators 8 00 pm 7 00 nm GeatTeinFra C List View
120. ays that they support Java Servlets but their system is configured in such a way that it is non compliant with the Java Servlet specification Because their system is non compliant with the servlet specification Connect Daily will not work on their shared hosting servers Do I need a SQL Database to install the software The default Connect Daily installation uses the open source Apache Derby Database Nothing else is needed 252 Hi Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Frequently Asked Questions If you would like to use a different database we support MySQL PostgreSQL SQL Server Oracle DB2 and Sybase SOL Anywhere What are the requirements for installation see Software Requirements on page 193 Can install the software on my hosted website Most discount hosting companies do not offer the requirements for running Connect Daily If your hosting company supports the following items then the answer is yes gt Java Servlet Engine gt Supported Database IBMDB2 gt Microsoft SQL Server 2000 gt MySQL 5 0 or higher gt Oracle 9 or higher gt PostgreSQL 7 1 or higher If your hosting company does not support these requirements we recommend that you let us host your calendar For information about MH Software s hosting version refer Hosted Version Operation on page 151 When try to login get a 404 error and there is no file named login html Most of the html pages in Connect Daily are actually cr
121. bility to add events If you re using Virtual Host Mapping you ll need to edit each virtual host s guest user and remove their permissions to add events to all calendats What devices have you tested with The application has been tested with the following systems gt Blackberry Storm 9530 gt iPhone 3 4 and 4S gt iPod Touch running iOS 4 3 3 and iOS 5 0 7 0 gt Standard browsers including IE 8 IE 9 Chrome Firefox and Safari gt Samsung Android Phone gt Kindle Fire gt Toshiba Android Tablet gt Windows Phone 7 In general the mobile pages work well on all devices Some devices have a better appearance than others I m using a device and performance is really bad Can t you make it any faster The performance is specifically optimized for low bandwidth connections Connect Daily does this by using a combination of technologies including AJAX compressed Javascript and CSS GZIP compression local caching and browser caching In short if performance is really bad it s either because the device is really slow or the carrier network Blackberry devices deserve a special mention Virtually all non WiFi traffic on Blackberry devices go through the RIM Network Center This may explain why latencies the time between when you initiate something and something starts to happen ate really bad Here s a simple test If you re on the month view and you hit Next Month it should be very quick This is because the browser
122. blic The authority to approve events is a permission that can be assigned to Users or Groups To assign this permission use the Manage Security Dialog on page 82 or the Manage Security Wizard on page 85 If you do not want to use Approvals make all Users Approvers or have Events are approved when entered or have no Users as Approvers on the calendars The following rules apply when a new event is created gt If there are no assigned Approvers the item will be marked as approved gt Ifthe User has Approver permission the event is automatically marked as approved Ifsomeone is not an Approver but has Events are approved when entered permission then the event will be added to the calendar with an approved status gt If there are assigned Approvers and the User does not have Events are approved when entered then that event will be pending approval Ifan event has not been approved the system configuration controls whether it will be displayed on calendar view pages gt When an Approver approves or denies a request an EMail notification is sent to the requester Other Approvers will receive a CC copy of the message There are some options in User Preferences on page 29 to control message sending gt Ifthe Approver has the Take ownership of events this user or group approves permission the owner of a calendar event will then be changed to be the Approver 56 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Progra
123. ce Logins Remaining When a User s password expires this is how many logins they can perform until their account is locked Account Lockout Period in Minutes The number of minutes the account should be locked after a bad login attempt If this number is negative then the enabled flag on the account is cleared and it will require an administrator to re enable the account Maximum Password Age Set this value to the number of days you want Users to be able to keep the same password Set this to 1 to not require periodic password changes Minimum Password Age In Days If this value is set and non zero then at least this many days must elapse before the User will be allowed to change their password Maintain N Passwords In History If this value is non zero then N passwords will be retained for comparison to any new User password If the new password has been used before the password change attempt will fail System This screen contains global options that affect all calendars in the installation Base URL to Application Set this to the base URL that people use to access the calendar e g http www yourdomain com calendar This value feeds into the various EMail messages that reference the site Calendar Page URL This is the URL to the page on your site that displays the calendar If this value is present and an inbound link is detected from a social networking site from social 1 is a URL parameter then the view event d
124. certs import file TLSSignerCert der alias TLSSigner Mail Account Name amp Mail Account Password The User name and account password to login to the mail server with Notify contacts on event edit or delete If this option is set to yes then any EMail addresses listed in the event contact info field will receive a message each time that event is edited or when it is deleted 128 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Reprocess Notification Requests on Event Change By default EMail Notifications about changed events are only sent to people who have created a Reminder for an event If you set this option to Yes then anyone that received an EMail Notification about the added event will receive a Notification about the change This Re notification is accomplished by re processing the Notification Requests with the changed event Reconfirm Period To keep dead accounts from accumulating Connect Daily requires Users to periodically confirm their subscription This period is the amount of days that should pass before the User has to reconfirm their subscription Reconfirm Grace Period Period in days the system should wait before deciding the Notification Reminder account is dormant and delete it Processing Threads Number of background processes that should be used for sending Reminders and Notifications If you have many subscribed Users you may want to set this value higher We recommend that you use be
125. ces on page 131 and set the new calendar to be the setup and teardown events calendar Adding a Setup and Teardown Event 1 Create your event Add any resources you ll be using for the event You can t create a setup and teardown event unless your event uses resources 2 Save your event 3 Change to the Resources tab 63 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation 4 Click on the Create Setup and Teardown Event button near the bottom A duplicate of your original event will be created and placed on the Setup and Teardown calendar When you re editing a Setup Teardown event the background color of the screen will change to blue to provide a visual indication Once the event is duplicated you can edit the start and stop times your event needs You can also enter setup information in the text area for the event This can be instructions to the staff telling how to set up for the event If you have the Corporate or Enterprise Pack versions of Connect Daily you can create custom fields and associate them with your setup and teardown calendar Examples would be Tables Chairs Coffee Service etc For additional information refer to Custom Fields on page 111 64 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Exporting Data Comma Separated Value CSV Connect Daily allows you to export data in CSV Comma Separated Value format for import to MS Excel or other applications To acce
126. ching certificate is in the keystore If you see a disconnect before the exchange of the certificate from the server refer to MS KB Article 321051 This article contains information even if you are not using a 3rd party SSL certificate http support microsoft com kb 321051 If the error is not in the SSL communications look for these things Verify the lookup account is working gt Verify the account exists within the specified tree gt Check the default context name and verify the user exists within that context or a container under it For additional information refer to the LDAP Authentication Flow Chart contained in the cdaily x x x WEB INF misc security directory Cookie Based Single Signon Authentication Cookie based single signon authentication can be used when your users are already logged into another web application like an intranet site AND that system sets cookies that can be used by Connect Daily Here s how it works 1 User attempts to access Connect Daily 2 Connect Daily constructs a web request to an authentication URL It passes specified cookies as part of the web request 3 A web page at the other end the authentication URL examines the request and cookies If the user is authenticated it returns the person s user name full name and Email address to Connect Daily 4 If the user is logged in to the other system they will be automatically logged in 231 B Installation Guide and User Ma
127. creen click on the View Events icon It is the middle icon to the left of the calendar for which you want to add the event Once you are on the calendar events list screen click on the Add Event button 2 From the Month View Week View List View or Day View click on the New Event icon located above the calendar 3 From the Day View click on the time slot you would like to add the event for 4 From the Planner View click and drag your mouse to select a time span for your new event Depending upon how the calendar is configured approval of calendar events may be required Refer to Approving Items see Approving Events on page 56 for information on how this works Editing An Event To edit an event find it in the calendar display Click on the event When the event detail screen appears click on the pencil icon in the upper left corner of the window If the event is a recurring event you will have the option to edit the whole series of recurring events or just the event for that specific date Deleting an Event To delete an event find it in the calendar display Click on the event When the event detail screen appears click on the pencil icon in the upper left corner of the window At the bottom of the screen click on the delete button Tip You can use Import Holidays screen to speed up your initial setup of Connect Daily See Also Calendar Event Adding Tutorial see Add and Edit Events Tutorial http www mbhsott
128. creen on the Edit Calendar page If a User does not have this permission they cannot change the style of an Item The Item will always have the default style for the calendar The section below contains detailed information on configuring the different elements of an Item style Style Name You can assign names to your styles that are useful to you A high school might enter styles of Freshman Sophomore Junior and Senior Background Color amp Text Color Enter the colors you wish to use for the background color and text color You can type in a color name like red or enter the RGB hexadecimal code If you enter the RGB hexadecimal code remember to prefix the colors with the symbol i e XXXXXX You can also select the palette e icon to pop up a color selector dialog Font Family Enter the names of the fonts you wish to use Separate font names with a comma For example if you put in Tahoma Lucida Sans Serif the browser would try to use those fonts in that order Font Size Enter the point or pixel size for the text For points put pt after the size for pixels put px after the font size Decoration You can specify whether you want the calendar events to be underlined by selecting underline from the dropdown list If you do not want underline set the decoration to none Display If you set Display to block then the items will be HTML block elements This will insert an extra break after each item If you do not
129. css Modify the copy of MiniMonth css that you uploaded to your web servet If you want you can customize the HTML that is generated when you click on one of the dates To do this you must understand JavaScript programming concepts To customize this edit the processItemJSON function in the AJAX integration code See Also JSON Export on page 67 How Connect Daily s Ajax Integration Works First to get an idea of what it will look like see our example http www mhsottware com caldemo AjaxDemo html Click around on the mini calendar in the right pane of the web page Overview When the web page loads on the browser JavaScript requests the mini calendar from the se it Each time the User clicks on a date JavaScript requests the events for that date and displ Chapter 5 Web Site Integration JavaScript Mini Calendar Web Page Loads requests displayed on Mini Calendar Page JavaScript requests Day s events dein events for on Calendar that date Repeat Each Time User Clicks on Date TARGET z BLANK HREF to Open New Window Create a link on your web page to the calendar display page Use the Web Site Integration Wizard available from the Home page to generate the HTML to paste into your web page See Also Calendar Display Arguments see Calendar Display Options on page 189 Server Side Includes Server Side Includes of OutputCurrentWeek The servlet OutputCurrentWeek allows you to incorporate the cale
130. ct Daily Connect Daily allows you to manage the security in detail for gt Calendars gt Resource Types gt Resources Event Types gt Users Groups gt System Wide Permissions These permissions can be assigned to Users or Groups of Users Assigning permissions to Groups of Users can simplify setup if you have a lot of Users For information on Groups refer to Adding Groups on page 23 Calendar Permissions These are permissions for a specific calendar that can be assigned to a User or a Group The two most critical permissions are 77 W Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation User or Group can add events to this calendar View this calendar Detailed List of Calendar Permissions Approve events added to this calendar by others When Users with this permission create an event it will default to Approved If no Users are event Approvers then any event added to the calendar will default to Approved Change the default color and style for new events You can setup a calendar to have a specific default Item style Users with this permission will be able to change the style from the default to any available style See Item Style Setup on page 136 for more information Events are approved when entered Users who have this permission will have their events automatically approved when added but they will not have permission to approve events added by others Delete this calendar Wh
131. custom headet ot footer file specified for that calendar If no header or footer is specified at the calendar level then the software checks the system configuration to see if global default headers and footers are specified If custom headers and footers are displayed then the custom header is written to the browser The body of the calendar is written to the browser If a custom footer is specified then that information is sent to the browser The closing tags for the page are sent to the browser oO ow Bo N The server response to the browser is finished As mentioned above you can specify custom headers and footers globally in the SYSTEM CONFIGURATION APPEARANCE screen or at the calendar level 184 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Web Site Integration Connect Daily will look for custom headers and footers in the custom language directory If your browser language is set to Spanish then Connect Daily will look for the header in the custom es directory If it doesn t find an entry there it will look in the custom en directory for an English version Connect Daily ships with sample custom header and footer files in the custom en directory The default header and footer files created by the Edit Custom Header screen and the hosted version of Connect Daily are named gt custom en userHeader html gt custom en userFooter html You can also specify custom header and footer pages for each calendar If a value is
132. d uncheck the global security option for System Edit user preferences System Configuration Appearance System Configuration Resources Chapter 4 M amp M Customizing Appearance Time Zone Support System Configuration Time Input For example disabling file attachments would be done by choosing System from the menu selecting the configuration option and then selecting the Attachments menu option Change Colors Screen Change Colors is a quick and easy method of customizing the colors of your calendar to meet your unique specifications If you have system configuration permissions a link to this screen will appear on the home page when you login Hot Tip If you create a file named CustomSnippet css that CSS will be added to the custom or stock style sheet each time you generate or select a new style sheet This lets you have custom CSS but still use the style generation tools Style Sheet using the dropdown choose a pre selected color style Click on save change and view the new colors of your calendar and calendar system OR from the dropdown choose Custom Color Definition this opens the Custom Color Selection where you can enter your own colors or select them from the color palettes To use a color palette simply click on the palette at the end of the color selection where you are working CUSTOM COLOR SELECTION Page Background Color using the color palette on the right choose the color you wish f
133. d calendar for viewing the whole company The other way you could do this is to use use one calendar and create an Event Type for each department You could then view the calendar by Event Type to show a specific department or you could view by calendar to see all events together The trade off is cost versus flexibility Fewer calendars means a lower license fee but at the cost of being able to view your events in different ways Here s a comparison of the two methods Method Single Calendar with sub views created by using Event Types Advantages gt Lower cost Little or no security configuration required Disadvantages Frequently Asked Questions If any events are visible to the public ALL events are visible This is because security is controlled at the calendar level Inflexible rollup capability The views will be either ALL events or ONE category For example you have a college calendar with theater boys sports and girls sports You can view ALL events or you can view theater boys sports or girls sports individually But you cannot create a SPORTS rollup calendar that would display boys and girls sports combined gt Approval Limitations Approvals are set at the calendar level With one calendar an approver could approve any event added to the calendar Using the college example above and multiple calendars you could have an Approver for each of the distinct areas gt Sync program does not allow selection
134. dar software If your calendar requires a login or the calendar you want to subscribe to is not publicly visible the iCal export page will list those events with a user id and token for export If you ve given out the URL with the token and you want to deny access you can use the key icon on the iCal export page to change the export token See Also Filtering on Multiple Options 65 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Specific Application Notes iCal is a very complex specification and it can be difficult for programs to inter operate We are aware of the following issues All Versions 2 0 7 0 RDATE Specific Date Events does not work Versions 5 0 and lower will crash on encountering an RDATE Versions 5 01 and higher only the first occurrence is shown If time zone support is enabled the detailed event display shows one time events relative to GMT Google Calendar It may take up to 24 hours for changes in Connect Daily to be reflected in Google Calendar This is because Google Calendar infrequently checks for updates See Also Appendix D Importing Data From Connect Daily Into Google Calendar Mictosoft Outlook Outlook 2007 and Higher Outlook 2007 supports subscription to remote calendars You can subscribe to a Connect Daily iCal calendar feed Please note the following gt Specific date events RDATE is not supported by Outlook gt When subscribing to the calendar use the defau
135. dbc xxx xxx Refer to your database documentation for the correct values for your database JDBC Connection String This is the connection URL to your JDBC Database Database User ID amp Database Password The User ID and Password the JDBC Driver should use to login to the database Database Backup Path If your database supports SOL backup commands then you can enter the path to create SOL Database backups here Keep in mind that the path is the path on the database server not machine you re running a browser from or the machine running Connect Daily SQL Command Execution As a troubleshooting and repair tool Connect Daily has a SOL Command window that allows you to execute SQL Statements directly against the database To access the window choose SYSTEM CONFIGURATION DATABASE CONFIGURATION and click on the SOL Command Window button 126 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Type or paste the SQL Statement into the text area If the statement is an update statement set the Statement Type option to Exec If the query returns rows SELECT statement leave it on the default of Query SQL Statement g Statement Type Exec No Result Set Query Returns Results EMail Configuration This screen contains options for configuring how Connect Daily will send EMail Connect Daily sends EMails to notify Users about requested Resources new Events etc Once you have configured everyt
136. dditional year When your Connect Daily License Key was created an UpdateExpirationDate was calculated and incorporated as part of the License Key The Connect Daily License system allows you to upgrade to any version of Connect Daily that was released prior to the UpdateExpirationDate You can find out what your UpdateExpirationDate 1s by going into the SYSTEM CONFIGURATION Calendar License screen If you upgrade to a version beyond your UpdateExpirationDate the software license will not work and the software will run in demonstration mode If your UpdateExpirationDate period has passed and you would like to upgrade please contact MH Software Inc about renewing your Maintenance Agreement License Upgrades If you want to change the number of licensed calendars or add additional modules to Connect Daily you should know the following things 1 The cost will generally be the difference in cost between your current license and the license you are upgrading to 2 There is no need to un install or re install The upgrade is just a change to the License Key 3 Allof yout existing data will be intact if you upgrade your license To upgrade contact MH Softwate at Voice 1 303 438 9585 Fax 1 303 469 9679 EMail sales g mhsoftware com 235 Hi Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading Upgrading Connect Daily Web Calendar Software This topic contains detailed instructions on how to upgrade
137. details the information is displayed in a dialog that appears in line on the page not as a new window Ifan event spans onto a new day it will only be shown on the second day if the the end time is after the day view planner start time In other words a concert that ends at 2 00 AM won t span onto the next day When show event stop time is enabled this view only shows the start stop time combination when the start time or duration changes gt The week view link is not displayed Non Bannerized Wrapping In this view if an event spans multiple days it s drawn as a new event on each day that it occurs Other Differences Long event descriptions wrap downwards When show event stop time is enabled this view prints the start stop time for each event gt When you click on an event for details the information is displayed in a pop up window Ifan event spans onto another day it s drawn on the second day regardless of what time it ends So if you have an event that starts at 8 00 PM and ends at 2 00 AM it will be shown on each day This view has a problem in the sort order of events if a time zone change causes the event s start date to change Day View Type Using this option you can select the type of calendar that is displayed for the day view The options are Single Day Planner View and Single Day List View The Single Day Planner View is a grid with the hours of the day going downwards Events are displayed a
138. dio or Enterprise Manager Console and start SQL Plus Worksheet Connect to the calendar service with the User ID and passwotd selected in step 4 Run the calschema sq script from the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INFNSQL Oracle directory Copy the ojdbc14 jar from the Oracle jdbc lib directory to cdaily 4 0 0NWEB INFNLIB If your installation does not have this file you can download it from Oracle Edit the configuration properties file putting in the configuration entries for your database BObjectClass com MHSoftware db support OracleDB D JDBCConnectString jdbc oracle thin localhost 1521 calendar JDBCDriver oracle jdbc driver OracleDriver Jl Jl DBCPassword calendar DBCUserID calendar 10 Start the Connect Daily service and login 11 Configure Backup of the newly created database If you re using clustering or multiple SIDs on your Oracle server you may need to configure your JDBCConnectString to something like BCConnect String jdbc oracle thin DESCRIPTION FAILOVER on DDRESS LIST ADDRESS PROTOCOL TCP HOST host1 PORT 1521 DDRESS PROTOCOL TCP HOST host2 PORT 1521 LOAD BALANCE ON CONNECT DATA SERVICE NAME bit FAILOVER MODE TYPE session METHOD b asic 207 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading Note that the connection information would be entered as one very lon
139. dit Custom Header on page 162 243 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Frequently Asked Questions See Also Allowing the Public to Add Events on page 185 Is there a printable view Connect Daily uses Cascading Style Sheets CSS to control its appearance With CSS it is possible to specify in the style sheet the print view appearance To try this out visit our trial site http www mhsoftware com caldemo and from your browser s menu choose PRINT PREVIEW Notice that the heading is gone fonts are scaled down etc Do I need a SQL Database to install the software The default Connect Daily installation uses the open source Apache Derby Database Nothing else is needed If you would like to use a different database we support MySQL PostgreSQL SQL Server Oracle DB2 and Sybase SOL Anywhere Email FAQ How can get an Email whenever an event is added For logged in Users select Edit Reminders from the menu They should then click on the Add Notification Request button If they only want notified when events are added to a specific calendar then change the Notification Request Type to Key Words and Specific Set and select the specific calendar If you have the global permission Add Others to Notification Requests you can use the movers to add Users or Groups to your notification request When you do this any Users or Groups that you select will receive a notification message at the same time that you do
140. download the file templates en ItemAdd edit the file and rename it to ItemAdd custom Finally upload the renamed file to the templates en directory 102 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 103 Message Explanations Event Approved Message This message is sent when an event is approved You will receive this message if You are an approver for the calendar OR you created the event You can edit your Email preferences so that you only receive these messages when a specific instruction or comment is made To do this login to the calendar system and choose Edit Preferences and check the option Disable Empty Approval Messages Note that if the approver puts in some comments as part of the approval process you will ALWAYS receive this message Your Email address is used as the contact information for the event If you have a calendar login you can disable these messages using the instructions above If you don t have a calendar login and your Email address is used as the contact information you will always receive a message notifying you the event has been approved and posted to the calendar Event Added Approval Required Message You will receive this message if an event requires approval AND You created the event or you are an approver for the calendar You can disable this message if desired To do this login to the calendar system and go to Edit Preferences Check the option for Disable Event and Resource Appr
141. e To see the complete feature list go to the features page on our web site http www mbhsottware com teatures html Organizer Pack Small Corporate Entery Business Pack e Skinny Standard Pack Pack Search by multiple criteria at one time including x x event type resources used calendar and search text Create sets of custom fields for your calendars x including date fields pick lists and more Resource Management System including unlimited resources View Planner by Calendar Resource Resource Type ot Event Type X X ODE LE Data Export 1Cal CSV i CSV CSV CSV iCal CSV RSS iCal RSS RSS iCal RSS iCal RSS RSS iCal R Add exceptions to multiple recurring events at one x x 1 x time Create customized internal header with logos or x other images 21 Initial Setup Once the software is installed the following steps will make your calendar fully operational 1 Login to the system and change the password for the Admin User account If you re using a hosted calendar login using the User name and password you received when you signed up for the online calendat 2 Add User accounts for people who will be using the system If you have many Users who will need the same permissions you can simplify your security configuration by creating Groups and assigning the Users to Groups Permissions can then be assigned to the Group 3 Add Event Types for the kinds of events you will be scheduli
142. e a file transfer program A file transfer program that supports the SSH protocol is required SSH 1s supported by most current versions of FTP programs For security reasons we do not support standard FTP protocol File Transfer Settings Using a Secute FTP program or SCP Program connect use these settings Host Name lt your host name gt LE yourname mhsoftware com or calendar youtdomain zzz Protocol SFTP over SSH2 Port Number 12022 User Name The name in the message you received from MH Software when your installation was created Chapter 3 Mi Hosted Version Operation Passwotd Use the password specified in the message you received from MH Software when your hosted installation was created This password will remain the same even if you change the password on the account you use to login to the calendar software Remote Directory home User Name ROOT Changing Appearance Connect Daily allows you to customize the appearance of your calendar and integrate it into your current website The Customizing Appearance help topic contains information on how you can make the calendar look like the rest of your website The Web Site Integration on page 167 topic contains information on integrating Connect Daily into your site s design Connect Daily also has built in tools to get you statted quickly Here s the short version 1 When you first login click on the Change Colors see Change Colors Screen on page 161 lin
143. e controlled by the cascading style sheet see Cascading Style Sheets on page 159 Many calendar viewing options resource stop times time zone etc can be set via the Setu Calendar Viewing on page 33 screen Chapter 5 Web Site Integration Joomla Integration Connect Daily can be integrated into Joomla using the Integration Wizard and IFRAMES Doing this may require you to configure Joomla to allow inserting IFRAMES into articles Here are the steps Enabling IFRAMES in Joomla 1 Login to the Administration system and choose Components JCE Editor Control Panel 2 Click on editor profiles default editor and click on the Plugin Parameters tab 3 On the left side select the Media Support section 4 Setthe option for Allow IFrames to yes and save Copying and pasting the IFRAME code into an Article 1 Login to Connect Daily and use the web site integration wizard on Step 2 select A full sized calendar within my existing page design 2 Select the calendar format and copy the HTML code onto the clipboard 3 In Joomla create a new article In the JCE editor select the option to edit the HTML source and paste the IFRAME code into the article Chapter 5 Web Site Integration Category Shavout Status Pubished s Access Pub s Permissions Set Permissions Featured No iw Language Al ID 364 Article Text show hide A 9 s By Ue 66 Paragraph Styles Font family Font s
144. e dropdown This argument only wotks if you are not logged in dtwhen Viewltem html only Specific date Julian format for an event to be displayed in the ViewItem html page integral If this value is 1 the user will be required to login before viewing the calendar If 0 or not present Users can anonymously view the calendar location id ID of Location to display calendar for item type id ID of Event Type to display a calendar for offset Number of weeks or months to offset the calendar display by For example if you call ViewCal with no month and year specified the calendar for the current month will be displayed If you call ViewCal with offset 1 then the calendar for the next month will be displayed Negative values are allowed resource type id ID of Resource Type to display a calendar for fesoutce id ID of Resource to display a calendar for show resoutces If this value is 1 then resources associated with the event will be displayed along with the title of the event show stop If this value is 1 then an alternate display format showing the stop times as part of the event will be displayed style sheet Name of the cascading style sheet to use for the web pages You can use this to override the default style sheet or the per calendar style sheet Chapter 5 Web Site Integration If a criteria parameter calendar id resource id or resource type id is specified and the
145. e got your authentication provider working create a user account that will be a template This user s settings will be copied to each new user that is created Set the user level preferences group memberships and individual permissions to be what you want Now go to System Configuration Security In the area for Template User for auto adding users enter the name of the template user you created If you re using multiple AD servers you can specify a different template user for each server by editing ldap properties Once you ve done these steps if a user authenticates but does not exist in the Connect Daily user database they will automatically be added If you are using LDAP AD or Cookie Signon and have set up LDAP Equivalent groups then after the account is created the user s group memberships will be adjusted based on their LDAP AD group memberships Refer to the Add Edit Group page for more information 234 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading Upgrading Upgrading Topics Checking Upgrade ENG bility rre ertet 235 License Upptades sse dee er tete e e Ree e fees 235 Upgrading Connect Daily Web Calendar Software sss 236 Upgrading from version 3 3 x to 4 0 0 236 Checking Upgrade Eligibility When you purchase Connect Daily you are entitled to free updates for 90 days Additionally you can purchase a Maintenance Agreement that extends your upgrade period for an a
146. e of post you wish to create For Facebook a status update is the simplest and least flexible A Post is the most complete You can choose to post the event immediately or at some time in the future See the comments below for more information about this 140 HM Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation The form lets you fill in the various fields and URLs associated with the selected post type For the status example below you would type in a subject and message If you right click on the input boxes a pop up menu will appear that lets you directly paste in the values from the event For example you can right click and paste in the Location For the various URL inputs you can select a URL from the dropdown list or type in a different URL Connect Daily will find all of the URLs in your event and put them in the dropdown list for you to choose The same holds true for Image URLs Once you ve got your post ready to go click on the Create Button Once the event is created it will be displayed in a list underneath the form Event Moscow Ballet s Great Russian Nutcracker Account M Type Status v PostEvent Immediately On 11 16 2013 At 7 30 PM M Message Title Start End URL Location Description Images Links Here are some things to know All Types If you delete the event and there is a scheduled post that scheduled post will be deleted If you delete the event and the
147. e or Edit Event Reminders and Notification Requests Permission Fixer Transfer Files Hosted Only Manage Reminders and Notifications Add Others to Reminders Add Others to Notification Requests Program Operation If a User has this permission they can change System Preferences for their account If they do not have this permission then only the system administrator can change their System permissions If a User has this option then they can use the Event Reminder and Notification Requests to receive EMails about events It is possible to use the security screens and end up with an object where no User or Group has Manage Security permissions This screen will display those objects and allow the operator to take control of them or delete them Users with this permission can use the File Transfer see File Transfer Utility on page 153 screen to upload download files from the hosted server Note that after you assign this permission you must logout and then log back in for the change to take effect Individuals with this permission can create Reminders and Notification Requests for other Users They can also manually begin the Reminder message processing People with this permission can add other Connect Daily Users and Groups to receive an EMail Reminder about events People with this permission can add other Connect Daily Users and Groups to Notification Requests that they create See Also EMail No
148. e possible web pages are compressed prior to being sent to the browser This gives users the maximum possible speed when editing the calendar Advanced recurring event scheduling types include gt gt Weekly events e g every Wednesday Monthly Events gt the 2nd Tuesday of each month gt every other Thursday gt the last weekday of each month gt every other day Annual Events gt the 4th Thursday of November gt Day 25 of December gt 1st Weekday of March June September and December One time events 12 16 2003 12 22 2003 Specific dates Any set of arbitrary dates In addition to the standard recurrence features that you find in many calendars Connect Daily allows you to specify exception dates For example your choir group practices every Wednesday night The choir will not practice on 12 25 2002 and 01 01 2003 because they are Christmas and New Year s Day respectively Exceptions are a powerful feature that makes your recurring event calendar more accurate Copyright 2000 2013 MH Software Inc All rights reserved The software contains proprietary information of MH Software Inc It is provided under a license agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure and is also protected by copyright law Your use of this software is limited by the License Agreement for the program Chapter 1 Introduction to Connect Daily 4 0 0 Portions of this software are copyright 2005 2013 The Dojo Foundation h
149. e problem 2 You are looking at past dates To aid performance Connect Daily only looks forward for conflicts So if you put two events in the past in and both use the same resource then a conflict won t be detected Recurs Select the Recurrence for your event Ifthe Recurrence Type is Specific Dates you must add specific dates the event will occur on gt Ifa start or end date is specified on the General Tab then the event will recur between those dates gt Duration means the number of days a Recurring Event lasts For example Kwanzaa would be Annual Day 26 of Month December with a Duration of 7 days For information on Recurrence support in Connect Daily refer to Recurring Events see Periodic Event Import on page 96 Specific Dates Recurrence Specific Dates allow you to enter a set of unrelated dates when your event occurs Enter your dates in the large text box 52 Hi Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation You can use the date selector tool by clicking on the calendar icon to the right and selecting a date Once you have selected the date click on the Add button Recurs D One Time Daiy Weekly Monthly Annual Specific Dates Recurrence Start Date Recurrence End Date M Days of Week Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Repeat Every 1 Week s Duration 9 Day s Z Exception Dates Attachments Attachments provide a way for you
150. e the Resource Types for the kinds of Resources you will be adding See Adding and Editing Resource Types on page 26 2 Create the Resources that you will be using See Adding and Editing Resources on page 27 3 Using the Manage Security Wizard on page 85 assign permissions to Users and Groups that can use the Resource Types 4 Using the Manage Security Wizard assign permissions to Users and Groups that can use the Resources 5 Using the Manage Security Wizard assign the authority to approve requests to the appropriate Users and Groups If no Approvers are assigned then people who have permission to use the Resource can use it with no approval Assigning Resources to an Event 1 To assign a Resource to an event double click on an available Resource Or click the Resource and use the gt button to move that resource to the Selected Resource Pane You can select as many Resoutces as needed 2 Ifan Approver is set the Approvers will receive EMail notification about the request 60 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation 3 When an Approver denies a request the Resource will be removed from the calendar event If your Resource usage conflicts with another event a warning message will be displayed and the Resource will be removed from your event To use the Resource you ll need to remove it from the conflicting event before you can assign it to your event See Also Resource Conflicts are not bein
151. e what s going wrong and fix it You should also refer to the LDAP Authentication Flow Chart in the cdaily x x x WEB INF misc security directory First edit the WEB INF ldap properties file and set debugMode true Now follow these steps to re start Connect Daily and test authentication 1 Stop the Connect Daily service 2 Erase log files For the default Windows installation this is in the TCBase logs directory 3 Start the Connect Daily Service 4 Attempt to login using an LDAP AD User Name and Password Examine the log files Look at the localhost xxx log file If you re using your own servlet container check it s log directory If the error indicates the issue is in the SSL certificate follow these steps to debug SSL 230 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading Debugging SSL If it s not working first try disabling SSL by editing the LDAP properties file Once you have authentication working without SSL re enable SSL and follow these steps To debug the SSL connection sequence define Djavax net debug ssl record or Djavax net debug ssl handshake On Windows this is done by editing the value for HKEY LOCAL MACHINE NSOFTWARE Apache Software Foundation VProcrun 2 0 ConnectDaily Parameters Java Options This will send debug information to stdout or in the default installation the catalina out file You should see the certificate exchange and certificate details Make sure the mat
152. eated using a process called servlet mappings If you are getting this error it means that the application did not deploy correctly Check the following items 1 Check the log files from your servlet engine These will usually provide you with a place to start The default installation under Windows will have this in Program Files MH Software Connect Daily tcbase logs 2 Check your database connection a Ensure the database connection settings in configuration propetties on page 202 are correct This includes DBObjectClass JDBCUserID JDBCPassword JDBCConnectionString and JDBCDriver b Verify the JDBC drivers for your database are in the classpath of the server or application If you only have one application the simplest thing to do is to put the JDBC JAR files in the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF lib sub directory c Using another tool query analyzer etc verify you can connect to the database using the User name and password Connect Daily is using 3 Check the supported servlet API for your servlet engine Make sure you use the appropriate web xml deployment descriptor for your servlet engine The default deployment descriptor Connect Daily ships with is API version 2 3 How do integrate Connect Daily with Microsoft IIS Please refer to Integrating Microsoft IIS with Connect Daily using Apache Tomcat see Integrating Microsott IIS 6 with Connect Daily on page 214 It contains detailed instructions on how to do this 253 B
153. ecify a qualified user name Refer to the section on User Name Formats In the second mode the program attempts to bind directly to the tree using the supplied user name and password This mode can also support multiple domains servers for authentication User Name Formats The important thing to note is that a bare user name cannot be used to bind to an LDAP tree If you need to use a bare name see below you must provide for it s conversion to a format that can be used for binding to the directory Bare User Name Example user Bare user name only If Guess DN yes then you must specify PrefixUserWith and SuffixUserWith and all users must reside in the same domain For Example GuessDN Yes PrefixUserWith cn SuffixUserWith cn users dc test dc mhsoftware dc com If GuessDN no you must specify a lookup account The lookup account will query for the DN AD domain username Example test user Active Directory Only Set searchField SAMAccountName Distinguished Name Example CN John set searchField DistinguishedName Doe CN Users DC test DC mhsoftware DC com User Principal Name Example set searchField userPrincipalName user test mhsoftware com By default Connect Daily will strip out the user name portion of the login user ID convert it to lower case and use that to find the corresponding Connect Daily user account See ExtractUserNameExpression for additional information 227 Hi Installation G
154. ected to the ViewGantt html page with the resource id of 3 passed as an argument You can also transparently log Users into the Calendar For information on how to do this refer to the FAQ How can I transparently log people into the Calendar There are three ways to do this 1 Use container authentication Windows Integrated Authentication The container web server and the browser will transparently log the user in with no action Container security configuration is documented here see Configuring Container Authentication on page 232 2 If you have an existing web application or other system the user is authenticated to you can use Cookie Signon authentication for single signon Cookie based single signon is documented here see Cookie Based Single Signon Authentication on page 231 3 You can use plain text passwords See below for information on how to do this Plain Text Password Configuration The first step is to read the FAQ entry How can I configure for plain text passwords By default Connect Daily stores passwords in a hashed format This is done to protect the passwords if the database should be compromised Sometimes for integration or technical support reasons customers want to store the plain text passwords To do this add the line AuthenticationProvider com mhsoftware cdaily support security AuthProv iderDefault to the configuration properties file If you have any existing passwords stored in the dat
155. egration script document domain yourdomain org function alertsize pixels pixels 32 document getElementById calendarframe style height pixels px lt script gt Troubleshooting If it doesn t work check the following 1 Check the document domain line for the correct domain name in userHeader html 2 Check the document domain line for the correct domain name in the containing page 3 Check the ID attribute of the IFRAME tag If it s not calendarframe edit the Javascript in the containing page and change calendarframe to the correct ID of the IFRAME tag If there is no ID attribute on the IFRAME tag add one 4 Check the source of the IFRAME Ensure that it s your virtual host name E G calendar yourdomain org Custom Headers and Footers The best way to integrate Connect Daily into a website is to use custom headers and footers You can specify custom HTML that appears at the top and bottom of the generated calendar Using this technique you can make Connect Daily look and feel exactly like the rest of your website Custom headers and footers are only displayed to users who are not logged in Tip You can use the Edit Custom Header Screen see Edit Custom Header on page 162 to easily create a custom header You can use the Change Colors Screen on page 161 to customize the colors used When a calendar is displayed the following takes place 1 The system checks for a
156. em to remove you Event Reminder Message You cteated a reminder for this event OR Another user created a reminder and added you as a CC for this reminder Disabling This Message If you created the reminder delete it by going to the calendat clicking on the event to view the event details and then click on the Alarm Icon 107 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation If another user created the reminder contact them and ask to be removed from the reminder The contact information for the person who created the reminder will be displayed in the Additional Information section Password Reset Message A visitor to the login screen used the Mail Me My Password link This link resets the password and sends you this message Email Address Reconfirm Message If you create a notification request or Email reminder request the calendar system will periodically send you a message to make sure that the Email address is still active Disabling This Message The calendar system administrator can disable these messages by going to System Configuration Email Configuration and setting the value for Reconfirm Address Period Days to zero 0 If you no longer wish to receive notifications or reminders do nothing After a few days the system will cease sending the notifications or reminders Resource Approval Message As part of Connect Daily s resource management system it sends messages about resource reque
157. en there may be a dropdown to act as a filter to limit the kinds of items displayed Sample List Calendars Screen List Calendars All Events All Sports Events College Sports Colorado Avalanche Colorado Mammoth Colorado Rapids Colorado Rockies Concerts Denver Broncos Denver Nuggets Denver Outlaws Events Festivals and Events Holidays Other Sports Trada Chmun and Cunan Pd a a a a a Pd a a a a a a a a a c0 _ PESE a m PE a Add Calendar 116 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation System Utilities Audit Trail When certain system actions are taken information about the change is logged into the audit trail table To view the Audit Trail go to System Audit Trail To view all system entries for the last 30 days you can just click on the Submit Query button The audit trail for that period will be shown as in the example below Additionally you can filter for entries for other things like a specific calendar or specific calendar event Change the entry type to the desired value and specify the text you want to search for Audit Trail Entry Type System Search for User Start Date 10 5 2013 v EndDate 11 5 2013 V Submit Query Finally o
158. en a calendar is deleted all events on that calendar will also be deleted Edit the settings for this calendar This includes calendar level options calendats rolled up into the calendar etc Edit events created by others A User must have this permission to be able to edit events added by others Mail Approvers when this user or group adds an event If you have someone with the Events are approved when entered permission you can set this option and Approvers will still receive a notification when the User adds an event Mail Approvers when this User or Group edits an event You can set this option so that when a User edits an event Approvers will get notified about the change Manage security for this calendar Users with this permission can edit or give permissions to others for the calendar 78 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Revoke approval of an event when it is edited by this User or Group When a User or Group assigned this permission edits an approved event then the event will need to be re apptoved User ot Group can add events to this calendar Users with this permission are allowed to add events to the calendar View this calendar People who have this permission can view the calendar Include this calendar as part of other calendars You must have this permission to create a calendar that has the calendar rolled up or included within it See Also Rollup Calendars on page 27
159. ent screen How can display only approved events In the SYSTEM CONFIGURATION APPEARANCE screen change the configuration option for Show Only Approved Events to Yes Invalid Event Type error message when adding events When the operator attempts to add an event they receive the message Invalid Event Type Ensure you have permission to USE at least one Event Type This message happens because the User adding the event does not have permission to USE at least one calendar Event Type If you carefully examine the Item Add screen you will notice that the Event Type dropdown is empty and no option can be selected To solve this problem use the Manage Secutity Wizard on page 85 and give this User or a Group the User belongs to View and Use permissions for the appropriate calendar Event Types How do I clear out old events Use The Purge Database function see Purge Database on page 135 on the System menu pad If you do not see this option contact your system administrator What browsers are supported Generally almost all browsers will work There are a few exceptions that are documented below Opera Versions lt Viewing of calendars is supported Opera 7 1 or higher is required to edit calendars Td 249 Bi Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Frequently Asked Questions Netscape 4 x This is an older browser with quite a lot of problems We do not recommend you use it If you have to use it you should be
160. ents List Events By Calendar x List Events For ALL EVENTS List Events Settings Max Events 6 Max Days in Future 30 Show Recurring Events Only Once Cancel Select how you want to list events by calendar by type of event by resource used etc Set the Max of events and Max Days in Future to look and click on the Add Short Code button The short code will be inserted into the page Setting the Max Days In Future value to 0 will display only the current day s events B I e i 6 4 aP ii EET fo Paragraph v U A Upcoming Events LED s Go fe B cdaily detailedlist by method calendar id by id 18 options maxcount 6 amp dayspan 30 amp allow_duplicates 0 177 W Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Web Site Integration Note You may get more events than you expect using this shortcode If there are 5 events on the first day and 5 events on the next day and the shortcode is configured to show 6 events it will actually show all 10 events This is so that the display doesn t mislead people by showing a date and then only a partial listing for events for that date IFRAME Short Codes The WordPress plugin also provides shortcodes for inserting a full sized calendar into your page design Here s an example Calendar of Events This page demonstrates inserting a full sized calendar using an IFRAME tag November 2013 Redskins s San Antonio To insert
161. ents You can also use the Rich Text Editor for creating a custom header that is displayed when you are logged in The rich text editor is the Dojo Dijit Editor available as part of the Dojo Toolkit available from http www dojotoolkit org Features The editor allows you to format text including bold italic underline text color text background color etc You can also insert links and images Finally you can control the text alignment and insert numbered and simple lists As you move your mouse over the icons in the editor toolbar a tooltip will be displayed These tooltips explain the function of the icon Compatibility The editor works by creating a window and telling the browser to put that window into design mode To a very large degree the behavior of the window is dependent on the browser For example we ve seen problems copying and pasting when using Internet Explorer This is not a defect in Connect Daily or the Dojo editor but a defect in Internet Explorer If you are copying pasting text from Microsoft Word be sure to use the Copy Paste from Word function by clicking on the icon as shown below Speed Some browsers are faster than others On our test computer it takes 4 seconds for the rich text editor to display using Internet Explorer 8 Using the same computer with Firefox 3 10 the page displays in 1 6 seconds If you re having performance problems you may want to consider switching browsers Chapter 4
162. erae tbe rabie erit risen 161 Edit Custom Headet i esas teeeioeteieteeesteeeienieeien ids 162 Edit Internal Eleadet iiie ien rr em mieten rre ree tek 163 Customizing Event Display and Mouse overs sss 165 Site Help E 165 157 159 Customizing Appearance Overview Connect Daily is extremely flexible when it comes to altering the appearance of your calendar You can change the colors fonts icons event colors virtually every element of the appearance of the calendar Changing the fonts colors and font sizes is done by by editing the Cascading Style Sheet If you have a lot of web expertise editing the style sheet is the way to go If you don t have a lot of expettise don t worry We provide the Change Colors Screen on page 161 to get you going The rest of the topics in this section detail how you can change the appearance of your Connect Daily web calendar For information on integrating Connect Daily into your web site refer to Web Site Integration on page 167 Cascading Style Sheets The primary way you customize the appearance of your calendars is by changing the Cascading Style Sheet CSS that the system uses The style sheet allows very precise control over fonts font sizes and colors for the calendating system In the application directory is a file named style css You can either edit this style sheet or incorporate the special elements from this style sheet into your primary s
163. erences selected by Guest Users will be retained between browser sessions If the option is set to No then Guest User preferences will not be retained Preferences affected by this include gt Advanced Search Options Notifications and Reminders Login Anonymous User Preferences including Time Zone show Resources and show Stop Time If you will have many Users sharing computers then you will want to turn this option on Enable GZIP Compression Enabling this option will cause Connect Daily to send web pages to the browser compressed in the GZIP format This can result in a compression factor of six 6 times This can make your calendar noticeably faster to end Users Our testing indicates requests serviced per minute were reduced by 2 3 when GZIP compression is enabled The program will automatically detect if this is supported by the browser This feature may not work on certain servlet engines and connectors If it works with your installation we recommend that you enable it Require SSL for regular users If this option is set then a User will be required to use SSL to login to the calendar and all internal pages will require SSL If the browser is not using SSL then it will be re directed to the page using SSL 134 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Time Input Default Time Zone Set this dropdown to the time zone that you want all events to be relative to The default time zone gets used i
164. ermissions to all calendars EXCEPT the office staff s internal calendar gt Create Resource Items for each common room Gym Library etc Make the Office Group Approvers for the Resources Grant the Users Group permissions to use and view the resource Grant Group Everyone permissions to View the Resources Example Security Configuration 2 A Corporate Sales Organization A sales and marketing group has purchased Connect Daily for use in scheduling their 12 sales people The 12 sales people are divided into 3 groups An East Coast group a Mid west group and a West Coast group Each group has a sales manager and 3 sales people In the corporate headquatters there is a director of sales and the secretary Each sales person should only be able to see their own calendar Each group sales manager should be able to see his calendar and the calendars of their 3 sales people Additionally a rollup calendar should be created for each sales group to allow the sales manager to view the combined activities for his people The sales director and the secretary should be able to see any calendar In addition to the individual and group calendars they would like to have a rollup calendar that shows the activities of all sales people The sales secretary should be able to create entries in any calendar but the items must be approved by the sales group manager The public should not be able to see the calendars We would configure the system in the following
165. ermit viewing or searching events by type Starting Date and Time This is the starting date and time of the event For Recurring Events this is the date and time of the event s first occurrence If the event recurs and spans more than one day use the Duration field on the Recurrence tab to set the duration End Date and Time This is the end date and time of the event For Recurring Events this is the date of the last occurrence of the event Contact Name and Info You can put in the name and EMail address or phone number of the event organizer here URL If you include an additional information URL a link will appear on the Event Detail popup window Time Zone If time zone support is enabled it indicates the time zone for the event Description Field Enter free form text that describes your event Depending upon your system configuration you may have a rich text editor that you can use to enter events Connect Daily allows you to use a Rich Text editor to create the long description for events You can also use the Rich Text Editor for creating a custom header that is displayed when you are logged in The rich text editor is the Dojo Dijit Editor available as part of the Dojo Toolkit available from http www dojotoolkit org 49 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Features The editor allows you to format text including bold italic underline text color text background color etc You
166. ervlet containers go to http www javaskyline com serv html 195 HM Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 197 Hardware Requirements In general Connect Daily is a very efficient program that puts minimal requirements on hardware A single Pentium 4 computer is sufficient to run around 300 copies of Connect Daily That is 300 churches schools businesses or government agencies can all have their Connect Daily calendar installed on the same machine and receive good performance An older machine a P3 600 w 1GB of RAM hosted around 60 copies of Connect Daily with CPU utilization between 3 10 during the day To determine how well Connect Daily would scale we created a scalability test plan The results of this testing and the configuration of the system are shown below Narrative Test Results During testing we achieved a peak throughput of 1 404 requests per minute or approximately 23 4 requests per second This represented 747 177 bytes per second throughput or approximately 6Mb s The table below shows the throughput rates for different periods Requests Period Bytes Period Hour 84 240 2 57 GB Day 2 021 760 61 5 GB This level of throughput would require a server connection speed approximately equal to four 4 T1 circuits Aggregate Test Report Screen Installation and Upgrading The Average Min and Max fields refer to the request times in milli seconds LoadTest jmx Z cdaily WEB INF misc JMeterPlan Load Te
167. ese as the defaults gt Other Fields You can use this block to specify the defaults for other fields including custom fields The data should be entered as FieldName Value paits one per line First Line of File Contains Column Names Some CSV export files will have the first line of the file be the names of the columns e g subject start date etc If your file does not have column names in the first line of data set this value to No Default Event Duration If your event has a start time but no end time this 1s the default duration to use for the event Character Set This is the character set that the data file was saved with For US Windows usets the default of windows 1252 is correct URL If the file you want to import is on a web server you can specify the URL to that file for import File Name This is the name of the file you wish to import Step 2 Match the columns from the CSV file to Connect Daily s fields On this step you match up the Connect Daily field e g title to the corresponding data column in the source data file At minimum you must have a title and starting date If your source data file doesn t have a field corresponding to the Connect Daily field you should set the dropdown to blank The screen shot below shows the settings we recommend for importing a CSV file from Microsoft Outlook Once you ve mapped the fields hit the finish button and the results will be displayed Notes 91 B
168. esource Management on page 60 Item Style Setup on page 136 Security In addition to the options shown below Connect Daily supports authentication of Users via LDAP or Active Directory For information on this refer to Authentication Architecture on page 221 Use Minimal Security Levels Setting this option will cause Connect Daily to give rights to all created Objects to all existing Groups New Users will be made members of all Groups 131 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Public User Name This is the User name that should be supplied when a User requests a Calendar View while not logged in This User name will be supplied to the security sub system to determine what Calendars Groups Resources etc the User can see See also Permissions for Anonymous Users on page 75 User Preferences on page 29 Allow Users to Save Passwords as Cookies Setting this option will allow Users to set cookies with their User ID and Password The down side of enabling this feature is that anyone who can access the browser profile will be able to login This option only works when using the non default plain text authenticator Disable Password Changing Setting this to Yes prevents Users from changing their password Mainly used for demonstration mode Default User Name amp Default User Password The default User name and password for the login screen This is really an option for demonstration purposes In a
169. ess the RSS import screen from the menu select View Import RSS Import To get started specify the Calendar the events should be imported to and the defaults for Event Type Contact Name Contact Info and Addl Info URL You can specify defaults for other fields including custom fields by entering the fieldname value pairs one per line in the Other Fields text box The Default Event Duration is the default time span that events should last If your RSS source doesn t have an event time end this value will be used 94 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Once you ve filled in the basics click on the Next button RSS Import College Sports Defaults Event Type Appointment v Contact Name Contact Info Addl Info URL Default Event Duration minutes 60 URL Periodically refresh the calendar with this data Previous Page two of the import allows you to associate the information in the RSS feed to the right fields in Connect Daily At minimum you must map the Title and Event Start fields If you don t map the Item Globally Unique ID field events will be duplicated each time you run the import The mapping fields will be blank if there are no events in the feed Event Dates can be in the following formats 95 B6 Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation RFC 822 e g Tue 11 Jul 2008 12 34 00 0600 gt RFC 3339 Atom e g 2008 07 11T12 34 00
170. etails page will display a link to the calendar with this URL If this value 1s not present the Base URL is used Enable location entry for events Enabling this feature allows you to create and assign locations to events In order for a user to create new locations they must have the permission Location Add See Also Locations see Editing Locations on page 36 133 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Enable ala carte calendar selection for event inclusion See Also How Events Are Included On Calendars on page 144 Map Provider URL If you enable location entry for events the events can also have a link to a map service provider displayed You can control which map service provider is called by changing this value For example if you re a state agency with it s own GIS database you can have it called when someone wants to map a location Session Timeout Hours If a user is logged into Connect Daily but does not make a request change pages view a calendar etc after a certain period their session is expired When the session is expired the user will be required to login again This setting controls how long a session may be inactive before it is timed out Allowed values are from 1 4 hours Because each session consumes resources on the server it is not possible to set sessions to never timeout Anonymous User Preferences Persist between Sessions If this option is set to Yes then pref
171. f User accounts please refer to Authentication Architecture on page 221 for detailed configuration instructions Edit User Form User Preferences Refer to the section on User Preferences on page 29 Enabled If this option is checked then the account is enabled and Users can login using this account THIS SHOULD BE UNCHECKED FOR GUEST USER ACCOUNTS If the User you are editing is a configured GUEST User then this control will be disabled See Permissions for Anonymous Users on page 75 User Preferences on page 29 User Groups Select the Groups for your User by using the mover Mark the Groups you wish to use in the Available Groups box and then click on the gt button so that they are moved to the Selected Groups box You can mark multiple Groups at a time by using a combination of shift and click or control and click If Minimal Security Mode is turned on in the system configuration then new Users will automatically be made a member of all Groups To disable Minimal Security Mode go to SYSTEM CONFIGURATION SECURITY and set Minimal Secutity Mode to No Security This section contains information about login failures and system permissions gt Password Change Date The date the User s password was changed or when the account was created gt Last Bad Login The date and time of the last bad login attempt for this account gt Bad Login Count The number of failed login attempts For information about bad logins
172. f you don t understand what this means talk to the person that handles DNS entries for your domain 2 If you are using the hosted calendar service tell us each of the virtual host names you want to use If you are self hosting your servlet container or web server must forward requests for the virtual host into Connect Daily 137 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation 3 Create a different GUEST user for each virtual host mapping Try to make the name associated with the virtual host name Remember GUEST users must have Enabled unchecked on the edit user screen We recommend that you assign permissions to the user specifically In other words don t make the user a member of any groups 4 From the menu choose System Virtual Host Mapping Configure the virtual host names using the Virtual Host Mapping screen to associate the appropriate GUEST User with the virtual host names 5 Use the manage security wizard to assign the user permission to view the appropriate calendars resources and event types Other Notes Only User accounts that are NOT ENABLED can be used as a GUEST account If the account you created is not displayed ensure it is not enabled The host names are not tested in any particular order gt You can use regular expressions in the expression box or the actual host name All of the following are valid calendar your department yourdomain org matches calendar your_department you
173. file to the desired name You will also have to rename the file calendar xml to lt path gt xml If you are no longer using the HTTP connector Tomcat runs on port 8080 you can disable it by editing the CATALINA BASE conf server xml file 217 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading Troubleshooting Edit the file CATALINA_BASE bin native isapi_redirect properties Set the Log Level to debug Re start the IIS service Make a request that will go through the ISAPI filter LE http hostname calendar login html request_id 1 If you make multiple requests increment the value for request id This disables browser caching Look in the CATALINA_BASE logs directory for the isapi redirect log file If it s not there check the permissions on the directory and re start the IIS service If you get the log file print the instructions above and go through them step by step checking off each step as you complete it Integrating Microsoft IIS 8 with Connect Daily Throughout these instructions there will be references to SCATALINA BASE as the base portion for the file and directory paths displayed For most installations this variable refers to CATALINA BASE C Program Files x86 MH Software Connect Daily VI CBase Step 1 Set Permissions a From the Windows Start menu choose Administrative Tools and then select Internet Information Services Managet b Locate the account your IIS Server
174. from the internet then people can view and edit those calendars over the internet The calendar display can be directly integrated into your web site Connect Daily provides advanced capabilities for managing resources and facilities The permission system allows many users to edit calendars with the assurance that all items added are approved Connect Daily is ideal for gt Resource Scheduling gt Vehicles Audio Visual Equipment gt Class Rooms Conference Rooms gt Ball Fields gt Corporate Events Calendar gt Training Calendars gt Parks and Recreation Calendars gt Church Calendars gt School Calendars gt Municipal and Community Events Calendars Some of the features Connect Daily includes are v v v wv wv cw cw Chapter 1 Introduction to Connect Daily 4 0 0 Unlimited Calendars Unlimited Items per Calendar RSS 2 0 Event Export Time Zone Support User defined Custom Fields iCal and CSV Import Export Customizable appearance including colors fonts page headers and page footers Per item colors for all events 24 hour Military or AM PM formats supported Advanced calendaring engine handles almost all types of event recurrence Calendars can be combined to make composite calendars Any calendar can belong to any number of composite calendars Resource utilization planning with conflict checking approvals and Resource planner view chart views User level security High performance Wher
175. fy username and passwords against the directory gt Set Connect Daily group memberships based on LDAP AD group memberships gt Automatically create users Enabling LDAP from the hosted version of Connect Daily requires that the LDAP Active Directory server be accessible from Connect Daily s hosting service Contact Technical Support for additional information The sections below provide information on configuring Connect Daily to use LDAP Active Directory Configuring LDAP Authentication LDAP AD Configuration is complex Please carefully review the instructions to configure your system 1 Create a User within the calendar database that has administrator privileges The name of the User should be the lower case name of the User that exists within the directory 2 Add a line to the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF configuration properties that specifies the LDAP AD authentication provider AuthenticationProvider com mhsoftware cdaily support security Aut hProviderLDAP 3 Active Directory Users should follow the steps in SSL LDAP Setup on Windows section in Configuring Active Directory Authentication on page 225 4 UNIX Users should get the SSL certificate used by the LDAP server and put it in a local keystore file On Linux the steps were openssl x509 inform pem in usr share ssl certs slapd pem outform der out slapd der keytool import file slapd der keystore sslkey keystore alias type r name sslkey 5
176. g detected One of two things is happening 1 You have marked the Resource as shared This means that multiple events can use it without conflict To change this go to the EDIT RESOURCES screen and change the shared flag on the Resource that has the problem 2 You are looking at past dates To aid performance Connect Daily only looks forward for conflicts So if you put two events in the past in and both use the same resource then a conflict won t be detected Approving Resource Usage Connect Daily supports the idea that certain Users control access to certain Resources These people who control access to a Resource are referred to as Approvers If a Resource has Approvers and the person adding the event is not one of the Resource Approvers then the event will be added but the Resource will be marked as not approved Approval is a permission that can be granted to Users or Groups To make someone an Approver for a Resource you use the Manage Security Dialog on page 82 or the Manage Security Wizard on page 85 If you are a Resource Approver you will notice login messages telling you that you have Resource requests awaiting your approval To approve Resources go to the Resource Approval Screen The screen will look something like the screen shot below When a Resource request is approved or denied a Notification is sent to the requester and all other Resource Approvers 61 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Re
177. g line PostgreSQL Configuration 1 Login to the operating system as a User who has rights to create a database If you haven t set this up yet 2 3 4 5 6 7 as user postgresql run the createuser command and give the new User privileges to create databases Create the database createdb E UNICODE calendar Load the database schema psql calendar lt WEB INF sql PGSQL calschema sql You will need to edit the postgresql conf file On RedHat Linux this file is in the var lib pgsql data directory On FreeBSD this file is in usr local pgsql data Change the line tcpip_socket false to tead tcpip_socket true Restart the PostgreSQL Service Copy the JDBC Driver files to your application server s path or the WEB INF lib directory Edit the pg_hba conf file if necessary To test if this is necessary run the command psql h hostname calendar If the connection is refused you will need to add the appropriate permissions entries to PG HBA CONF It may also be necessary to edit the startup script for postmaster to ensure that it is listening on TCP IP sockets Refer to the man page for postmaster for more information on startup options 8 Edit the configuration properties file putting in the configuration entries for your database J DBObjectClass com MHSoftware db support PostgreSQLDB BCConnectString jdbc postgresql localhost 5432 calendar D
178. g up a Social Media Account for Connect Daily Creatine a Social Media Post senden tenente nee tite tiges RERU EN NUEN E UEN ERER ERENER Pettitte 8806855 oie E AETA TAT TATAEE How Events Are Included On Calendars essent tenete ttnennenn SMS Text Message R miridets uac ect pacto te dete n EE eT nian d WHERE Pee Re EC TERN ERES tenet 145 Mobile Operation 147 Accessing the Mobile Versions M 147 Mobile Device PAQ eee eie ete tede esee POR ORE ER ee EE e Tee saa eye eee etes ee eee eeu 147 Chapter 1 MH Connect Daily Mobile Device Tutorial aipe onenen tim SHIRE ETUR IURIS IER IU n ERSEN ER ERE Ur US EERE USUS 149 Hosted Version Operation 151 Using the Hosted clon P 153 File Deans het Bhilr p MH 153 Uploading Files to QUE Servet M 153 File Transfert Seti gs sess 153 Grube vorum 154 Creating a CNAME of Alias fort Yout Calendar etie didi inei R NGN NENT NRR pr tuta 154 Customizing Appearance 157 Customizing Appearance OVetVviIew uci ihi betreibt te be nir EHE FE Eres A Eee ESEE TES ETSE EEI tee pud eorundem Customizing M Setting Different Colors for Events
179. gin For hosted Users the CALENDAR PATH portion would not be present The URL would be something like http calendar yourdomain com login html txtUserID USER NAME amp txtPassw ord PASSWORD amp btnSubmit Login amp target ViewCal html amp calendar id 11 Replace the USER NAME value with the name of the User you would like to have the person be logged in undet Replace the PASSWORD value with the password for the User account you are logging in with The page specified by target will be invoked and all parameters not relating to login will be passed as part of the request See Also Calendar Display Arguments see Calendar Display Options on page 189 259 Bi Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 261 Chapter 8 Reference In This Chapter Internationalization and Localization esee 263 Appendix A Software Installation Checklist eee 266 Appendix B Section 508 Accessibility see 267 Appendix C Importing Religious Holiday Calendars 267 Appendix D Importing Data From Connect Daily Into Google Calendar269 Glossaty Of Terns s iocceitentineo menie neben oir on anaia 269 263 Internationalization and Localization Connect Daily uses the browser specified Locale strings to determine the following things Names of the days of the week gt Names of the months of the year Format to
180. hey re in CSV format they can be imported into Connect Daily using the CSV Import Wizard If you use this method recurring event information will not be exported Any recurring events will be exported as a series of one time events with the date for each recurrence Importing to MS Outlook For importing Connect Daily data into MS Outlook there are 4 options Remote Calendar Subscriptions Outlook version 2007 and higher can subscribe to Connect Daily s iCal feed URL s to create an internet calendar By default Outlook will refresh the calendar every two hours Connect Daily Sync Program The Connect Daily Sync program is the best option It will keep track of which Connect Daily events have been brought into Outlook and not create duplicates You can download the sync program from the link below Connect Daily Sync Program http www mhsoftware com bin SyncSetup EXE iCal Conversion Program Using Connect Daily s iCal export feature import the iCal file into Outlook using the Ca Conversion Program http www mhsottwate com bin iCalConvett msi If you are using MS Outlook 2007 you can use the iCal Export feature of Connect Daily to create a dynamic imported calendar in Outlook that contains your events Just go to the iCal export page and click on the webcal link for the calendar you wish to link to CSV Import Export your Connect Daily events using the CSV Export screen then use Outlook s CSV Import screen to bring in the event
181. hing you can test your configuration by clicking on the Test Mail Send button You can customize the message headers that are part of any message by editing the file mail headers in the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF directory Outgoing Mail Server Name The host name or IP Address of the computer that will deliver mail for Connect Daily If you do not know what to use you can look at your EMail account configuration information in your regular program If you are still having difficulties you will need to contact your system administrator If your mail server runs on a different port than port 25 you can specify it by adding the port number to the host name For example smtp gmail com 587 Mail from Address EMail address to use for for sending outbound EMails Enable Mail Debugging Turning this option on will generate additional troubleshooting messages to the system logs Unless specifically directed to enable this by technical support you should leave this set to No 127 BW Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Troubleshooting Mail Sending The first step to troubleshoot mail sending is to turn on Debug and examine the system logs These will usually give you something to start with The most common issues sending mail are 1 The mail host name is wrong 2 A firewall or network configuration issue blocks the calendar from connecting to the mail server 3 Server doesn t allow relay from the host the calenda
182. his option will turn off all features relating to Resources Set this to Yes if you will not be using Resources Show Resource Descriptions on View Item Setting this option displays the description for Resources on the Event Detail screen Require these resource types for all events This option allows you to specify that every event have at least one resource of the specified type assigned For example you can require that every event have a room resource assigned You can require resources of mote than one type but if you do a resource of ALL types must be assigned to the event Warn If No Resources Selected If you are using Resource Management and this option is set then the system will warn Users whenever they add an event but do not select any Resources Setup and Teardown Calendar The calendar that Setup and Teardown Events are assigned to Everyone who can create events should have User Permissions to the calendar and the GUEST User should not have View Permissions to that calendar Style for Items with No Resources This is the style that will be set on the item 1f there are no Resources assigned to it For example if you wanted to indicate events that didn t have Resources you could define an Item Style named No Resources Style and then set this option to that style When an event is saved that has no Resources assigned to it the No Resoutces Style will be set for the Item Style highlighting it See Also Using R
183. ilable calendar views Month Day Week Year Planner List via IFRAME Additionally Connect Daily provides Frame widgets for inclusion into your web site Available widgets include Mini Calendar with event days in bold Clicking on a day opens day or list view for that date gt Simple List of next N upcoming events Clicking on the events pops up a window with the event details gt Detailed List of next N day s upcoming events Event title additional info URL and long description are displayed The help topics below cover more information on including an entire calendar or using the IFrame widgets Display calendar in an IFRAME The section below explains how to insert a calendar in an IFRAME on page 271 into your web page To create the IFRAME code use the Web Site Integration Wizard Click on Home Web Site Integration Wizard When you re on step 2 pick one of the bottom two options X Web Site Integration Wizard Step 2 of 3 What do you want to add to your site A link that opens the calendar in a new window A full sized calendar within my existing page design A mini calendar or list of events within my existing page design A WordPress Widget or WordPress IFRAME Shortcode On step 3 of the wizard copy the HTML for the view you want to display and copy it into your web page Web Site Integration If you use an IFRAME search engines will find your calendar content and index it However when use
184. ility The editor works by creating a window and telling the browser to put that window into design mode To a very large degree the behavior of the window is dependent on the browser For example we ve seen problems copying and pasting when using Internet Explorer This is not a defect in Connect Daily or the Dojo editor but a defect in Internet Explorer If you are copying pasting text from Microsoft Word be sure to use the Copy Paste from Word function by clicking on the icon as shown below 250 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Frequently Asked Questions v Ay B v B Ow I Y ze Bg Dig Speed Some browsers are faster than others On our test computer it takes 4 seconds for the rich text editor to display using Internet Explorer 8 Using the same computer with Firefox 3 10 the page displays in 1 6 seconds If you re having performance problems you may want to consider switching browsers Exporting The various export screens will export the data as you enter it You should be aware that not all programs will handle importing HTML correctly Disabling the Rich Text Editor The Rich Text Editor can be disabled by going to System Configuration Appearance Set the option for Enable Rich Text editor for event description to No Search Engine Optimizing Your Calendar Connect Daily is search engine friendly Because of it s design it permits search engines and spiders to index the calendar information
185. input dates in Formatting for time strings when times are converted from one time zone to another gt Starting day of the week In other words if your browser is set to a preferred language of es_MX you will see the days of the week and months of the year in Spanish The calendar conventions including the starting day of the week the time formats and the formats for entering dates would follow the locale conventions for Mexico Tip If your browsers send the wrong language preference and cannot be changed you can add the parameter LocaleOverride ll cc to your configuration properties Replace ll with the two letter code for your language and CC with your two letter country code For example LocaleOvetride es mx This LocaleOverride will force Connect Daily to ALWAYS ignore the browser s Accept Language header Additionally the captions for the pages are drawn from an external resource bundle EMail templates are also stored externally from the application This means that you can easily create a new translation of Connect Daily and have multiple translations live at the same time Put simply you could have Spanish French German and English all co existing on the same server The one drawback is that event titles and description are not automatically translated The sections below provide detailed instructions on how to create a translation of Connect Daily Character Sets The default character set for Connect Dail
186. ion 228 229 230 Configuring Windows Integrated Authentication 237 Conflict Detection 25 29 Converting from One Database to Another 213 Cookie Based Single Signon Authentication 20 235 262 Creating a CNAME or Alias for Your Calendar 156 185 277 Creating a Social Media Post 140 Creating and Editing Calendar Events 46 Creating Event Reminders 28 98 145 Creating Notification Requests 99 CSV Import Wizard 88 252 Custom Field Creation Wizard 112 Custom Fields 62 111 Custom Headers and Footers 30 169 186 256 Customizing Appearance 159 Customizing Appearance Overview 161 Customizing EMail Templates 100 Customizing Event Display and Mouse overs 167 Customizing Icons 161 Customizing the Ajax results 189 D Database Backup 217 Configuration 205 Database Conversion 213 Database Configuration 125 258 Debugging LDAP AD Authentication 234 Deleting Events 46 Deploying Connect Daily as a WAR 216 Description Field 47 Detailed List of Events Shortcode 178 Difference Between Connect Daily Versions 17 Disabled Discrimination Act UK 271 Disabling Features 162 Display calendar in an IFRAME 183 Display calendars in a frame 187 DNS Domain Name Setvice 137 274 E Edit Configuration Files 215 Edit Custom Header 156 164 186 247 252 Edit Internal Header 165 Edit XML Document Screen 113 Editing Events 46 Editing Locations
187. is a security feature that should be turned on Disable Empty Approval Messages If this option is selected any event or resource approval messages that the operator did not supply additional information for will be disabled Disable Event and Resource Approval Request Messages If you use the calendar regularly and do not want a lot of Resource and Event approval requests cluttering your inbox you can disable them by using this option Tip If you re still getting messages make sute that you don t have more than one user account configured with your EMail address 30 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Show Stop Times by Default By default only event statt times are displayed on the calendar You can specify that stop times should be displayed by default by selecting this option Show Resources by Default By default Resources are not displayed on the main calendar only on the specific Item view Selecting this option will show the Resources on the various calendar views Show Event Types Filter with Calendar Selecting this option will display a set of checkboxes above the calendar display Using these checkboxes the user can select what event types should be displayed It s similar to viewing calendar by even type but it allows you to select more than one event type at the same time Section 508 Accessibility Menu By default Connect Daily uses a Javascript menu If you check this option
188. is available from http www ietf org rfc rfc5545 txt MS Outlook Users If you re looking for a way to convert Outlook data to Connect Daily you can download our free Ca Conversion Program To access this form from the menu choose VIEW IMPORT IMPORT ICAL FILE and follow the steps below 1 2 3 4 5 6 Copy and paste the URL to the calendar file into the URL box OR Use the BROWSE button to browse for a local file Select the calendar the events go into using the dropdown Select the defaults for Event type Contact Name Contact Info Addl Info URL If an event is imported and that event does not have an assigned category then this event type is used If the event has assigned categories that do not exist in Connect Daily the categories will be automatically added For Contact Name Contact Info and Addl Info URL if those values are not present use these as the default You can use the Other Fields block to specify additional defaults for standard or custom fields Enter the defaults in FieldName Value pair format one entry per line Import Event Times Some iCal files have times on the events even though they are actually all day untimed events Uncheck this option to discard the event times Use Privacy Class If this option is checked then any events marked as private will be imported as private Click on the Import button If all goes well you will get a message indicating how many I
189. is screen lists notifications and reminders you have created and notifications and reminders created by others that will affect you If a user has permission he can create a notification that will send EMail to a 2nd user If that s happened the list notification and reminders screen will look like this List Reminders and Notification Requests for gsexton mhsoftware com e D Search Require 4 Blank Notification for george Key Words Only Title Field All Key Words Add Notification Request Click on the Plus Icon next to No fication Requests created by Other Users That Will Notify Me This will expand the section and show the notification filters affecting that user The steps for Users to create Reminders and Notifications are in the Help topics listed below Many options that control the operation of the Email Notification and Reminders system are contained in EMail Configuration on page 127 99 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Creating Event Reminders Overview The EMail Reminders feature allows you to receive a message from the calendar system When you create a Reminder you specify when you want to receive the reminder You can choose whether you want to receive reminders via Email Text Message or Both Logged on Users While viewing the details for an event click on the Alarm Clock icon The Edit Reminder dialog will appear Anonymous Users 1 While viewing the event
190. isplayed saying Key Request Sent If the request fails the system will display instructions asking you to send the key request file to us via Email Send the key request file to keyrequest a mhsoftwate com have a license key but it does not work If you are using MS Outlook make sure that it is not removing extra line breaks The image below shows how the message will appear if this 1s the case To restore the line breaks click on the message banner Extra line breaks in this message were removed and select Restore Line Breaks 254 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Frequently Asked Questions If you re deploying Connect Daily as part of a cluster make sure you read the installation topic for Clustering E Connect Daily License Key Message Plain Text TBI Edit View Insert Format Tools Actions Help Reply L Reply to All 3 Forward aj a 103 amp Extra line breaks in this message were removed From A keyrequest mhsoftware com Sent Thu 5 4 2006 2 22 PM To gsexton mhsoftware com ay Subject Connect Daily License Key Thank you for purchasing Connect Daily Here is the license key for Connect Daily that you requested Copy the strings below onto the clipboard Login to Connect Daily You may have to restart Connect Daily in nr der tn lagin Gn tn the Aystem Configuration Sereen On this screen you will see a button labeled Import License Data Click _ on this button Paste the strings
191. it out website http trialsignup mhsoftware com In This Chapter Using the Hosted Version tentent 151 Pile Transfert D tito deett riesig ETE EE 153 Uploading Files to Our Server 153 Oise Terrae Nee reise E M 154 Creating a CNAME or Alias for Your Calendar sss 154 153 Using the Hosted Version After the hosted calendar is created for your organization you will receive an Email with information on how to login Follow the instructions in the message to login to your calendar Once you have logged in follow the instructions in the Initial Setup on page 19 section of the Manual to create your calendars User accounts and other setup tasks You may also want to watch the tutorials that we have see Tutorials on page 13 to become familiar with your calendar File Transfer Utility Connect Daily supplies a Transfer Files screen that you can use to upload and download files from the Connect Daily hosted server You can use this screen to download style sheets header files and footers from the hosted server Once you ve customized the files to your needs you can use this screen to upload them to the server To access this screen choose SYSTEM TRANSFER FILES from the menu For this option to appear you must have the Transfer Files permission Uploading Files to Our Server You can use the integrated File Transfer utility on page 153 to upload and download files or you can us
192. it supports importing event recurrence For additional information refer to the topics below RSS is an acronym that stands for Really Simple Syndication Essentially it is a text file format designed for publishing news articles The text is formatted XML There are many readers that let people subscribe to RSS feeds and aggregate them together in one application You can also use RSS feeds to create dynamic HTML for inclusion in websites A detailed description of RSS can be found at http en wikipedia org wiki Really_Simple_Syndication The specification for RSS 2 0 can be found at http www tssboatd org tss specification iCal is a text file format designed for publishing calendar information For information about the iCal format refer to RFC 5545 Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification iCalendar Many programs allow you to subscribe to remote calendars and have them appear transparently with the rest of your schedule Some programs that support iCalendar include gt Apple iCal device and desktop gt Google Calendar gt Microsoft Outlook and Live Mail Mozilla Lightning gt and many others The RFC for iCal is available from http www ietf org rfc rfc5545 txt You can find the import screens under View Import In order to use any of the import screens you must have the System level permission Can use advanced edit and import screens CSV Import Wizard The CSV Import Wizard allows yo
193. ize p Ee Y hh 11 E n fr Find ih d Replace 1 kp gt Shavuot is a Hebrew word meaning weeks and efers t festival marking the giving of the Torah at Sinai Shavuot like so many other Jewish holidays began as an anci agricultural festival marking the end of the spring barley harvest and the beginning of the summer wheat harvest Shavuot was distinguished in ancient times by lt p gt 2 lt hr id system readmore gt 3 lt p gt Shavuot is a Hebrew word meaning weeks and refers to the Jewish festival marking the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai Shavuot like so Source code Gallery gt Article image 92 PageBreak ReadMore RokCandy Macros Aj RokGallery da 171 WordPress Plugin Connect Daily supports integration into WordPress via a native plugin The plugin talks to your Connect Daily calendar installation and lets you easily integrate your calendar into your WordPress based web site The plugin supports Mini Calendar Widget gt Simple List of Events Widget and Shortcode gt Detailed List of Events Shortcode IFRAME Integration Shortcodes for full sized calendars and add events forms Styling for the widgets and detailed list is primarily controlled by your WordPress theme The plugin does provide additional css styles that are applied to events and can be customized WordPress Plugin Tutorial To help you use the WordPress Plugin we ve created a tutorial that cover
194. ject E G the calendar ID For example the JSONP export looks like jsonp calendar_id 3 js dayspan 7 This would export all events on the calendar with the id of 3 for the next 7 days Beginning with version 3 4 15 you can now specify additional filters on the url Say the ID for the resource Pepsi Center is 7 you can now filter for events on that calendar at the Pepsi Center The format of the URL would be jsonp calendar id 3 js dayspan 7 amp resource id 7 You can specify mote than one value and more than one filter For example say I have a Theater calendar and two of the venue resources are Dinner Theaters I could use the filter like this jsonp calendar id 3 js dayspan 7 amp resource id 5 19 To retrieve only those events that are at one of those two venues I could further refine it to only extract musicals by adding the item_type_id option jsonp calendar id 3 js dayspan 7 amp resource id 5 19 amp item type id 11 The rule to remember is that each additional filter resource id and item type id in the example must be matched by at least one value The additional filter options that can be applied are calendar id location id gt gt gt resource id resource type id gt item_type_id 73 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Security and Permissions Security Overview Connect Daily supports a very rich permissions system It is important to understand
195. k Day View Connect Daily supports viewing calendar by month week or day The image below shows the month view calendar You can navigate to the next previous month using the arrows Moving your mouse over the various icons will display a tool tip that explains each icon s function You can activate the week view by clicking on the Week nnn label in the cell for the first day of the week You can activate the day view by clicking on the numerals for the day For example 28 You can target a specific calendar view by specifying the URL They are ViewCal html Month View The month view calendar has two forms The first form is the bannerized or spanned view Long events are displayed as a span over the range of days The second form is non bannerized Events that span a range of days are shown on each day they occur You can select which view is used in System Configuration Appearance See Also Differences in Month Views Connect Daily supports two different month view formats Bannerized View In this view if an event spans multiple days it s drawn as a single event box that overlays the days that it occurs on Other Differences gt This view truncates long event descriptions This makes the display more compact and allows the banner view A mouse over is provided to display the full event name and start stop time for the event gt When you click on an event to view the details the information is displayed in a dialog th
196. k to set your colots Select Custom Color Definition to specify your own colors 2 Click on the link to Edit Custom Header on page 162 to set the heading displayed on your calendar what links you want displayed and upload a logo To let visitors to your website see the calendar you ll need to create a link to your hosted calendar Generally the URL will be something like http your_organization mhsoftware com We can also create a virtual host name see Virtual Host on page 273 that people can use to access the calendar Using a virtual host will allow your visitors to see a URL like http calendar yourdomain zzz To use a virtual host name create a CNAME record that points to your_organization mhsoftware com CNAME records are also sometimes referred to as ALIAS records Creating a CNAME or Alias for Your Calendar When you first sign up for a hosted calendar we create a host name of http yourdomain mhsoftware com You use this host name as the URL to access your calendar It is also possible to create a virtual host name to access your calendar A virtual host name lets users access your calendar with a URL like http calendar yourdomain com In order to do this you need to create a CNAME or alias DNS record Chapter 3 Mi Hosted Version Operation What You Need To Do Contact your domain s administrator and ask them to create a CNAME record If you re the system administrator look at your hosting site s contr
197. ld like the data to be logically separated If your database engine supports per user table spaces you can create one physical database and then create 12 users one for each logical calendar You would then login to the physical database as each distinct User and create the table structures Finally for each logical calendar you would specify the unique login for that site in the configuration propetties file For information on whether your database engine supports per user table spaces contact your SQL database vendor configuration properties Using a text editor edit the configuration properties file The minimum required entries to get Connect Daily are documented below To change other options login and use the System Configuration screen Each screen has detailed information on the available options Options for specific databases are addressed in SQL Database Installation Instructions see SQL Database Setup on page 201 Parameter Description 202 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading Parameter Description JDBCDriver This is the class for your JDBC Driver This information is unique to each database You will need to copy the JDBC Driver files into your application server class path or into the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF lib directory JDBCConnectString Connection string for JDBC Driver For PostgreSQL it would look something like jdbc postgresq
198. ld write http www mhsoftware com caldemo View html calendar id 2 The calendar_id 2 is the argument portion of the link You can include more than one argument If you wanted to link to the same calendar but turn off the calendar selection dropdown then you could write the URL as http www mhsoftware com caldemo View html calendar id 2 amp dropdown 0 All these pages accept the following arguments Parameter Name Desctiption apptoved If this parameter is not present then all events approved and unapproved will be displayed If this parameter is present and 1 then only approved events will be displayed If this parameter is present and 0 then only unapproved events will be displayed calendar id ID of Calendar to display You can find the ID for the calendar on the edit calendar page cal item id Viewltem html only the item ID to view Chapter 5 Web Site Integration Parameter Name Desctiption dayspan ViewList html only The number of days to display at one time detail ViewlItem html only If 1 additional details are displayed about the event If 0 fewer details dropdown If this parameter is not present or has a value of 1 then ViewCal and ViewWeek will display a dropdown list of all calendars the operator has permissions to The set of calendars displayed in the dropdown is the set of calendars the GUEST User has permissions for Set this argument to 0 to hide th
199. le and deploy it to each cluster member Next using a browser connect to each member of the cluster and request a license key Please inform technical support that you are deploying a cluster before requesting the license keys Now we te going to create a deployment war for each cluster member As you receive each license key copy the license data into the bottom of the configuration propetties file You must do this manually Please also note that the license key lines are wrapped You must unwrap them remove the extra line break Once you have created the configuration properties file for each cluster member create a deployment WAR for each member Copy the deployment war for each member to the appropriate servers and re deploy the application If you re having a problem with the ClusterMaster configuration option check the server logs If this item is present Connect Daily will report the name of the master and the name of the executing computer at stattup Make sure that they match for the computer you wish to be the master Backing Up Your Calendar It is important to backup your calendar database In the world of SOL Databases special procedures are required for backup It does not necessarily follow that because your database is on the server it is backed up Talk to your database administrator and be certain that your calendar database has been added to the backup plan If you are using Apache Derby or Microsoft SQL Server yo
200. le in the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF directory and tells the User to send the file to MH Software If this happens attach the key request file to an EMail and send it to keyrequest mbhsoftware com Recurring Events Questions Our group meets the 4th Wednesday of each month except for November and December when we meet on the 3rd Wednesday How do add this Add two annual events On the first event set the event for the 4th Wednesday and then select the months January October On the second event set the event for the 3rd Wednesday and select November and December 256 B6 Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Frequently Asked Questions How do I add a recurring event that does not follow any pattern Add the event as a specific Dates Type Event and in the specific dates text box add the dates for each of your meetings Resource Management Resource conflicts are not being detected One of two things is happening 1 You have marked the Resource as shared This means that multiple events can use it without conflict To change this go to the EDIT RESOURCES screen and change the shared flag on the Resource that has the problem 2 You are looking at past dates To aid performance Connect Daily only looks forward for conflicts So if you put two events in the past in and both use the same resource then a conflict won t be detected Security Questions Can I have some calendars the public can see and others they cannot
201. lect Add Application b Enter an alias of jakarta You must type the directory name precisely as shown The name must be all lower case as shown c For the physical path choose CATALINA_BASE bin native and click on OK d Inthe Actions right most pane click on the advanced settings link for the application ensure that the application pool is the same as the application pool the server runs under See Step 1b above Step 3 Install the ISAPI Redirector Filter a If Enable 32 Bit Applications was set to True Step 1c copy the file CATALINA_BASE bin native isapi_redirect dll x86 to CATALINA_BASE bin native isapi_redirect dll b Click on the site in the Connections left pane and then in the center pane double click on the ISAPI Filters icon If you don t see this icon click on the Features View selector at the bottom of the pane If you still don t see ISAPI Filters in the features pane you will need to go into Windows Server Manager Add Roles and Features and modify the World Wide Web Role to have Application Development ISAPI Modules and ISAPI Extensions installed c Now right click in the ISAPI Filters pane and select Add For Filter Name enter Tomcat Redirector For executable select CATALINA_base bin native isapi_redirect dll and click on OK 219 Bi Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading d Click on the site in the left pane and then in the right pane double click on the Handler M
202. lendars displayed on the Day View Week View and Year View will have dates that contain events highlighted Site Help Path This is the path to a directory that contains your Site specific Help files This should be an absolute path and you should ensure that the User of the calendar has at least READ permissions to the directory For additional information on how this feature works refer to Site Help on page 165 Hide Saturday amp Sunday Turning this on will change the calendar from a normal 7 days per week view to a 5 days per week view showing only the weekdays Show approvals menu pad only for approvers If this option is set to Yes the approve items and approve resources menu options will only be displayed to those people who are Approvers of resources or calendar events Null Search String Returns Results By default if a User clicks on the search button without entering search strings no results are returned Setting this option will cause results to be returned even if no search words were specified Calendar License This screen displays the license data for your Connect Daily installation If you have purchased Connect Daily or would like an evaluation license key you can request a key for Connect Daily Click on the Request License Key button to begin The default demonstration version of Connect Daily runs for two hours and then must be restarted An evaluation key will run for 30 days before reverting to requiri
203. ll ConnectDaily on my webserver so it can be used on my website I clicked the download link but it just wants to install it on my own computer How do I install on my website s server Answet Connect Daily is a web server application It s software that has to be installed on the server It s usually not possible to upload the application to your server First Connect Daily requires a Java Servlet engine In the web hosting world this will go by different names like JSP Servlets Tomcat If you are using shared web hosting and your provider doesn t offer this service then Connect Daily won t work You have to either change to a web hosting provider that supports Servlets or switch to the hosted version of Connect Daily The hosted version of Connect Daily offers all of the features of the software version without having to install any software on your server You can sign up for a trial hosted calendar If you have purchased the software version and want to shift to the hosted version call our offices and we ll help you change it If you have a private server or virtual private server then you can install Connect Daily on that server For Windows our web site has an installer For other operating systems you will need a system administrator to install the servlet engine and database before installing Connect Daily We can do this for you as a service if your administrator is unavailable Special Note About GoDaddy com GoDaddy com s
204. ll be sent Name This is the name you want to assign to the Notification Request Search Fields Lets you control the searching Options are Title Field Only the event title is searched All Fields The title long description contact name and contact info and custom fields will be searched 101 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Require This option controls key word matching Options are All Key Words All key words specified must be present for a match Any Key Words If any key word is found on the event it will be a match Search Text These are the key words to search events for The key word searching is case insensitive Notification Request Type You can create two types of Notification Requests Key Words Only This type of request will look at every event added and if a key word match is found you will receive a Notification To match all added events no key words are necessary Key Words and Specific Set This type of request will look at events added that match an additional criteria For example you can match events that use specific resources or events that are specific event types Set Types include Calendars Event belongs to one of the selected set of Calendars Event Types Event is one of the selected Event Types Resource Type Event uses at least one resource of the specified type Resources Event uses one of the selected set of resources Users E
205. lt option for refresh If you do not use the default Outlook will reload the calendar each time it sends receives messages Outlook 2003 and Before There are two methods of impotting events into Outlook Double clicking on an individual ICS file or using the import screen If you double click on an ICS file or URL for an ICS file then only one event from that file will be imported and most forms of recurrence won t work If you use the Import screen to import an ICS file then things will work pretty smoothly PHPiCalendar 2 23 rc1 Specific Date events RDATE don t work Windows Calendar No known issues Vista Additional URL Options Parameter Name Description 66 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation include past The default behavior is to export future events and those that happened within the last 30 days If you want all events regardless of date add include past 1 as a URL argument htmldescription Default 0 The default behavior for iCal export is to strip HTML from the long description of an event If this parameter is present and set to 1 the iCal event will have the HTML formatted description returned nodefaultcontact If this argument is present and the value is 1 then the event owner will not be added to the iCal entry as the ORGANIZER CONTACT noresourcesindesc If this argument is present and the value is 1 then the resources used by the event will not be added as text to the
206. ly performed 1 Any events pending approval on calendars where there is no approver are marked as approved This can happen if all approvers are removed while events are pending approval 2 Any resource requests pending approval for resources where there is no approver are marked as approved 84 B6 Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation 3 Any permissions for objects resources calendars etc that have been deleted are removed This can happen if you directly edit the database using SQL statements 4 Redundant user permissions are deleted Say a user has System Configuration permission and the user is a member of a group that has System Configuration permission The repair security will automatically remove that permission from the user because it is redundant 5 Ifthere are no approvers for a calendar or resource then approval related permissions Mail Approvers on Add Edit Take Ownership of Approved Events and Default Approved will be deleted Make Super User Screen It is possible in Connect Daily to have Items Calendars Resources etc that no person can edit To correct this you can use the Make Super User screen to make a specific User or Group all powerful in the system This User ot Group will have all possible system permissions and the appropriate per item permissions for everything in the calendar To get to the screen go to SYSTEM SECURITY MAKE SUPER USER Then select a User or Group to
207. m Operation gt Ifa User has the Mail approvers when this user or group edits an event permission then the calendar Apptovers will be notified when the event is edited gt Ifa User has the Edit events created by others permission they can edit events created by other Users Approval Screen Approve Calendar Events Events Pending Approval Concerts Event Action Blackberry Smoke Approve Deny Request Defer Decision http www axs com events 244796 blackberry smoke Comments tickets skin ogden Location Ogden Theatre 935 E Colfax Ave Denver CO 80218 11 09 2013 9 00 PM Save Changes Events Pending Approval by Others Calendar Item Approver Concerts Blackberry Smoke Demo User gt Ifyou are not sure if the event should be approved leave the default option of Defer Decision selected No action will be taken gt To approve a request select the Approve option to the right of the event name The comments box can be used to communicate additional information back to the event creator You can approve or deny multiple events at one time gt Once you have marked the events you wish to process click on the Save Changes button gt When events are approved or denied a Notification message is sent to the requester If the request is denied then the event is deleted 57 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Recurring Events Recurring Event Types Connect Daily co
208. m the popup menu select Add Application b Enter an alias of jakarta You must type the directory name precisely as shown The name must be all lower case as shown c For the physical path choose CATALINA_BASE bin native and click on OK d In the Actions tight most pane click on the advanced settings link for the application ensure that the application pool is the same as the application pool the server runs under See Step 1b above Step 3 Install the ISAPI Redirector Filter a 64 Bit Windows If you ate running on 64 bit Windows and Enable 32 Bit Applications was set to True Step 1c copy the file CATALINA_BASE bin native isapi_redirect dll x86 to CATALINA_BASE bin native isapi_redirect dll 216 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading b Click on the site in the Connections left pane and then in the center pane double click on the ISAPI Filters icon If you don t see this icon click on the Features View selector at the bottom of the pane c Now right click in the ISAPI Filters pane and select Add For Filter Name enter Tomcat Redirector For executable select SCATALINA BASE bin native Visapi redirect dll and click on OK d Click on the site in the left pane and then in the right pane double click on the Handler Mappings icon Right click on the handler mappings section and choose Add Module Mapping For Request path enter dll From the Module dropdown list select I
209. ma delimited list of servers If a list of servers is specified the program will attempt to locate the user on the specified servers DefaultContext Server Name DefaultContext This is the context to search for the user account in You must change this to the correct value for your directory Example DefaultContext dc test dc mhsoftware dc com You can specify multiple contexts by specifying a delimited set of context names to search Refer to ContextDelimiter If you are using multiple servers you must specify a unique set of contexts for each server For example 228 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading ServerName server a domain com server b domain com server a domain com DefaultContext dc a dc domain dc com server b domain com DefaultContext dc b dc domain dc com Server Name AutoAddUserTemplate This is the name of the Connect Daily user to use as a template when creating a user who authenticated against Server Name For example ServerName server a domain com server b domain com server a domain com AutoAddUserTemplate domainauser server b domain com AutoAddUserTemplate domainbuser This allows you to have different user defaults based on which server the user authenticates against For example a different default time zone for the user depending on which server they authenticate against ContextDelimiter If multiple contexts are specified this is
210. me time It was not designed or optimized for raw throughput Software SUSE Linux 9 3 w Patches Kernel 2 6 11 4 Apache Tomcat 5 5 9 Sun JDK 1 5 0 step 04 Server VM w 512MB specified for mx and ms PostgreSQL 8 0 3 Connect Daily version 3 2 2 Dataset Connect Daily demo calendar set w 20 or so calendars containing around 300 events The month tested contained 89 events Client Configuration Hardware Intel Pentium 4 2 8GHz 1MB CPU Cache 1GB RAM 200GB IDE HD Software Windows XP SP2 w patches Jakarta JMeter 2 0 3 Sun JDK 1 5 0 Step 02 JMeter Test Plan Description A test plan was created using Jakarta JMeter 2 0 3 It had the following elements gt Thread Group configured w 15 Threads gt Graph Results Listener gt Aggregate Report Listener 199 Bi Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading gt Random Order controller to randomize order of requests gt Constant Timer w 300 ms Delay between Each Request gt Month View Calendar HTTP request gt Week View Calendar HTTP request gt Day View Calendar HTTP request gt Year View Calendar HTTP request gt Output Current Week Servlet HTTP request Using this test plan JMeter started 15 threads Each thread would make a request and then sleep 300 milliseconds 0 3 seconds before issuing its next request Each of the 5 HTTP requests was sent once in random order and then the thread would start the whole request seq
211. mixed mode Windows and SQL Server Authentication change it to this mode Expand the desired server and right click on the databases folder icon and select New Database Enter the name of the database and set the file sizes 64MB for the database and 8MB for the transaction log should be sufficient for most users Expand the Security folder and right click on the Logins folder and select New Login Set the default database for the new User ID to your new calendar database Select SQL Server Authentication and enter a user name and password You must create the account with the Authentication setting set to SOL Server Authentication Uncheck Enforce Password Expiration and User must change password at next login In the left pane click on User Mapping Put a check in the box for your calendar database In the Database role membership for box check db_owner Click on OK to complete adding the user From the menu choose File Open File Select the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF sql SQL2K calschema sq file If the authentication window appears select SQL Server authentication and enter the user name and password you created in step 6 Ensure the new calendar database is the currently selected database selected in the database dropdown list and execute the sctipt by clicking on the toolbar Execute button 205 B6 Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading 11 Edit the configuration properties file
212. ms For example it is possible to create a class for formatting the event description and title for mouse overs so that 1 Ifthe criteria is for calendar id then the calendar name Event Type Description is displayed 2 If the criteria is for item type id the calendar name is returned 3 Ifnone of these conditions is met the Item title is returned Implementing this customization requires advanced Java development skills If you are not a software developer you will need to acquire the services of one The cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF misc sub directory contains a sample CalendarItemFormatter to show how it is done Steps for Customization 1 Create a class that extends com mhsoftware cdaily support CalendarltemFormatter 2 Addan entry to the configuration properties file that has the name of your formatter for example CalltemFormatterClass com mhsoftware cdaily support CalendarItemFormatter 3 Restart Connect Daily if necessaty Site Help Site Help is a feature that allows the system administrator to create Help files that are unique to your installation When people are using the various screens a check is made for a Site Help file for each screen Site Help is not available for the various View pages For example if you are on the EditCal html screen then the software will look in the Site Help Directory for a file named language EditCal html The language is the User s browser specified language The system
213. n send messages through my GMail account Follow these steps 1 Login to Connect Daily as a System Administrator 2 From the menu choose System Configuration EMail Configuration 3 Set the outgoing server name to smtp gmail com 587 That s the mail host name followed by a followed by the port 4 Set Mail Host requires login to send to Yes 5 Set Mail Host Login Protocol to SMTP TLS 6 Set Mail Account Name to your GMail address E G accountname gmail com 7 Set Mail Password to your GMail Account passwotd 8 Save changes 246 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Frequently Asked Questions General FAQ am having trouble logging in Here are some things to check 1 Ensure you entered the User ID and password correctly Depending upon your database they may be case sensitive For example dog is not the same as DOG or dOg For the hosted version of Connect Daily both user name and password are case sensitive 2 Ensure that you have Javascript support enabled in your browser 3 Ensure that your browser has cookies enabled Connect Daily uses Session Cookies which last the duration of your login No other identifiable information is stored a For IE choose TOOLS INTERNET OPTIONS PRIVACY Ensure the policy is set to Medium High or lower b For Mozilla ensure that you at least accept and send cookies to and from the originating website You can tead more information about cookies at
214. n Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Custom Fields The Corporate and Enterprise Pack versions of Connect Daily support creating User defined fields Using a simple wizard web page you can define your own data fields for input You can associate those Custom Fields with all calendars or one specific calendar For example you could create Fields like Chairs Tables Coffee Service Y N for the Setup and Teardown calendar People can put in this information when they create a setup and teardown entry The Basics To get started go to EDIT ADVANCED EDIT CUSTOM FIELDS Click on the Wand icon to activate the Wizard interface for defining Custom Fields The Wizard will allow you to define your Fields You can specify what kind of data is in the Field and the caption for your Field Once you ve created your custom fields go to the EDIT CALENDARS screen and associate your new custom field set with your calendar What It Can Do When you create a Field you can specify what kind of data is accepted For example you can create a Field and configure it to be a date value When an event is created the program will check that the value entered was a date You can specify value types of Integer whole number Double number with a decimal point including currency Dates gt Logical Y N gt Character gt Email Address gt Time gt URL You can also specify whether a value is required If you mark the Field
215. n a couple of ways When one time events are exported as iCal entties the times for the event are converted to GMT The source time zone is necessary for this conversion The sync program also uses the time zone All recurring iCal entries that are exported are written in this time zone Finally the scheduled time for Notifications and Reminder processing is in this time zone Enable Time Zone Support If this option is set to Yes then individual Users will be able to specify their time zone and you can specify the time zone for events that you create Connect Daily will automatically handle converting Events from the Event time zone to the User s time zone Time Format Toggle between the default format for the browser s locale or 24 hour military time format Time Input Type Connect Daily supports time input for events using a time picker or as free form text If you want your times to all be entered consistently in the correct format use the time picker If you want to enter times in a format unusual for your locale or you want to put in multiple times use the Text Box Other Options These are either configuration options from previous versions of Connect Daily or custom options unique to your installation Purge Database As the calendar system is used it can accumulate a lot of data To maintain top performance this feature allows you to remove old and expired Calendar Events from the Calendar Purging the database will rem
216. n many edit screens you ll see a last updated field Last Updated Jun 27 2011 11 37 AM Audit Trail By gsexton If you click on the Audit Trail link a pop up window will appear with the change history for that entry Audit Trail LID User NNI Change Comments 8190 Demo User 11 14 11 10 52 AM Record Edited ID 12 Name Pepsi Center s resource_name Pepsi Center s MODIFIED ORIGINAL VALUE Pepsi Center Configuration Attachments Attachments are a way to allow your calendar Users to upload and attach binary files or put additional URLs on calendar events You should only allow trusted people to upload attachment files 117 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Enable Attachments amp Attachment Upload Directory If Enable Attachments is set to Yes then Users will be able to upload files and attach them to calendar events You can attach things like permission forms medical releases document packages as well as additional URLs Uploaded files are stored in the Attachment Upload Directory The files are each given a unique name at the time they are created You need to make sure that the Connect Daily service has wtite permissions to the specified directory If you would like to move uploaded files copy the UPL files from the default directory to the new directory You need to make sure that the process the servlet engine runs under has sufficient rights to tead create and delete files from th
217. n saved Clicking on the Finish button will apply the permissions to the selected Users and Groups X Manage Security Wizard Step 3 of 3 Check the boxes for the permissions you want to assign and click on Finish Viewing v View this calendar Adding Events 4 User or group can add events to this calendar Events are approved when entered Mail approvers when this user or group adds an event Change the default color and style for new events Approvals 7 Approve events added to this calendar by others Take ownership of events this user or group approves Revoke approval of an event when it is edited by this user or group Editing Events Edit events created by others Mail approvers when this user or group edits an event Managing This Calendar Include this calendar as part of other calendars Edit the settings for this calendar Manage security for this calendar Delete this calendar ss 3 E73 Resetting Your Password You can use the Reset Password screen to regain access to your Connect Daily Account gt Using this screen will send you a link that you can use to login to your account gt After you login you should immediately change your password gt You can t reset your password if you re using LDAP or AD authentication If you re using LDAP or AD authentication contact your network administrator to help you reset your password If there are multiple accounts with the same Email add
218. n the gt button so that they are moved to the Selected Users box You can mark multiple Users at a time by using a combination of shift and click or control and click Security This section contains information on the privileges and permissions assigned to the Group System Wide Permissions on page 81 gt Things this Group has permissions for This section lists the privileges that the Group has permissions to If the User has Manage Security permissions to these privileges then they can view the Manage Security dialog on page 82 for that privilege and edit the Group s permissions Adding Users When you first login to Connect Daily you will see a menu bar along the top To add Users go to SYSTEM SECURITY USERS A list of User accounts is displayed From here you can add Users If you will be using resource approval it is essential that you enter a valid EMail address for each User This address will be used for messages the system sends about resource requests and approvals NOTE User ID and password case sensitivity will depend upon the SOL Database used and the options specified during creation of the database 24 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Connect Daily can be configured to check User names and passwords against your network s User directory You can do this with directories supporting LDAP or Microsoft Active Directory If you would like to use your network s directory o
219. name calendar then rename the file TCBase Conf catalina localhost calendar xml to ROOT xml If you do have other web sites on the same server you need to integrate Connect Daily into follow the instructions below for your version of IIS Integrating Microsoft IIS 6 with Connect Daily Throughout these instructions there will be references to CATALINA_BASE as the base portion for the file and directory paths displayed For most installations this variable refers to CATALINA_BASE C Program Files MH Software Connect Daily TCBase Step 1 Determine Effective User Name a Open Windows Internet Information Services Manager and right click on the virtual host or default website for the calendar and choose Properties b Switch to the Home tab and write down the Application Pool name c Inthe left frame click on the Application Pools folder and then right click on the application pool name from the step above d Click on the identity tab and write down the identity used Step 2 Set Permissions a Using Windows Explorer navigate to the CATALINA_BASE bin native directory Right click on the folder and choose properties b Change to the Security tab of the properties dialog c Click on the Add button If necessary change the Look In dropdown to refer to the local machine d Locate the account you found in step 1d Select the User click Add and finally click OK e Repeat steps a d for the CATALINA_BASE conf
220. nd Mac OS X If everything is working file paths are right and database connection strings are right the system will prompt you if you re sure you wish to wipe the destination database Type yes and the conversion will run If a problem is encountered an error message will be displayed Correct the error and re try the conversion If you want to run the conversion without confirmation add yes as the last parameter Here are some common errors Exception in thread main java lang NoClassDefFoundError com mhsoftware cdaily support db DatabaseConverter You are referencing a version of cdaily jar that doesn t contain the Database Converter The converter is only present in versions 3 4 16 and higher ClassNotFoundException You re probably not specifying the right path to the JDBC driver jar SQL Exception Invalid object or table name referencing cd_dbversion You didn t run the schema creation script on the destination database SQLException on connection Your connection parameters ate wrong Configure the Application Server Most servlet engines will require you to perform steps to add the application For Apache Tomcat no additional steps are necessary If you are using a different servlet engine refer to the documentation that accompanied your softwate Once you have added the Connect Daily servlet context to your application server you may need to restart the Servlet engine to load the context If you are using
221. nd User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation To remove a User or Group from the dialog click on the X icon to the left of the group or user name Manage Security For Calendar Concerts r amp group Admins Viewing 7 View this calendar Adding Events User or group can add events to this calendar C Events are approved when entered FI Mail approvers when this user or group adds an event V Change the default color and style for new events Approvals Approve events added to this calendar by others FI Take ownership of events this user or group approves m Revoke approval of an event when it is edited by this user or group Editing Events 7 Edit events created by others m Mail approvers when this user or group edits an event Managing This Calendar 4 Include this calendar as part of other calendars i Edit the settings for this calendar 7 Manage security for this calendar Delete this calendar Repair Security Screen During the normal course of managing security it may be possible for objects to end up with no users or groups that have permission to edit them This screen analyzes the permissions for all secured objects in the system If any objects do not have a user or group that has Edit permissions they will be displayed The operator will have the option to delete them or take over management of them Additionally the following functions are automatical
222. nd or specifying custom header and footer files You may wish to print a copy of Appendix A Software Installation Checklist on page 266 and use it during the installation process Unpacking the Application Files The application code for Connect Daily is distributed as a WAR or a ZIP file A WAR file is basically a Java JAR file or ZIP file Copy the Connect Daily WAR file from the installation media to the directory you would like to install them to 1 Create the sub directory for the web application 2 Change to the sub directory 3 Unzip the files using the command jar xf ConnectDaily WAR or unzip ConnectDaily WAR 4 Setthe permissions on the directory so that your web server can read the files On UNIX issue the command chmod R o rx installationDirectory On Windows use the Windows Explorer program to set the permissions If you are using Apache Tomcat you will probably want to extract the files in the TOMCAT_HOME webapps directory or create a context descriptor XML file that references the Connect Daily path SQL Database Setup SQL Database Setup Overview Connect Daily uses a SQL database to hold the calendar data This section covers how to create the database to hold the calendar data Generally these instructions are for your database administrator to follow Schema creation files are located in the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF sq directory Use the calschema sq file for your database engine The
223. ndar directly into your HTML In order to do this your web server must support server side includes If you are not sure if your web setver does this ask your system administrator The line below shows how to insert the calendar for the current week into a page include virtual calendar OutputCurrentWeek html calendar_id 3 gt Additional arguments unique to OutputCurrentWeek are week and year Year must be present if week is specified Using JSP to Customize Appearance In the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF misc samples ASP directory are sample ASP and JSP pages that demonstrate creating a fully customized calendar display You can customize these JSP pages and then use a setver side includes to bring them into your web page Chapter 5 Web Site Integration Calendar Display Options There are many pages that can be called to display calendars from your website These pages are named View html ViewCal html ViewDay html ViewList html ViewWeek html ViewYear html and OutputCurrentWeck html OutputCurrentWeek is similar to ViewWeek but it only writes out the table of events It provides no navigation facilities OutputCurrentWeek is provided so that you can include the current week in your HTML using Server Side Includes You can add arguments or parameters to your URL when you create links to the calendar For example if you want to create a link that will display the Denver Broncos calendar on our website then you wou
224. ndar login screen If you wish to change the request URI prefix from calendar to something else you will have to edit the file CATALINA_BASE conf uriworkermap properties and change the path component of the context in the CATALINA_BASE conf Catalina localhost calendar xml file to the desired name You will also have to rename the file calendar xml to lt path gt xml To eliminate an path rename it to ROOT xml If you are no longer using the HTTP connector Tomcat runs on port 8080 you can disable it by editing the CATALINA BASE conf server xml file 220 Bb Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading Troubleshooting Edit the file SCATALINA BASEWbinNnativeVisapi redirect properties Set the Log Level to debug Re start the HS service Make a request that will go through the ISAPI filter I E http hostname calendar login html request_id 1 If you make multiple requests increment the value for request id This disables browser caching Look in the CATALINA_BASE logs directory for the isapi redirect log file If it s not there check the permissions on the directory and re start the IIS service If you get the log file print the instructions above and go through them step by step checking off each step as you complete it Authentication Architecture Connect Daily has a flexible authentication structure You can pick the authentication method that makes the most sense for your organization
225. ng 4 Add Resource Types for the resources you will be adding v Add resources that will be used on your calendar Examples would be conference rooms vehicles etc Create your calendars Assign permissions to your Calendars and Resources to the Users or Groups you created Add your calendar events Publish your Calendars SOM se A CON Logging Into Connect Daily If you re having trouble logging in click here Yout system administrator after installing the calendar software will provide you the URL with which to login to the Calendar system Calendars Hosted by MH Software The URL will be http yourdomain mhsoftware com login html Use the User name and password you received when you signed up for the online calendar Calendar Software Installed on Your Server Generally the URL will be something like http www mydomain com calendar login html When the software is installed a default User ID of Admin with a default password of Admin is created Use this User ID and Password the first time you login to the system Once you login change the Admin password to something secure Program Operation Advanced If you are a web designer you can provide links to the calendar that specity what page is displayed when the User logs in For example you can create a link like http hostname calendar login html target ViewGantt html amp resource id 3 Once the User enters the password and User name they would be re dir
226. ng restart every two hours When you receive a License Key click on the Import License Data button to import it 122 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation License Key Request This screen is used to request your License Key from MH Software Inc When you download this program it comes with a trial license that will run for two hours After two hours the application will stop executing You can use this screen to request a 30 day evaluation license before you purchase the software The 30 day evaluation key will not terminate every two hours Once you have completely configured your servet enter your EMail address and select the Request License Key button Please remember that we manually create License Keys Some time may elapse before you receive your License Key Send Key Request Request License Key Organization Name MH Software Inc Connect Daily Demonstration EMail Address RequestLicense Key If you cannot use the web key request please send the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF key request file to keyrequest mhsoftware com The information needed by MH Software Inc to generate your key will be Server Name Customer Name gt gt JDBC Connection String gt Calendar Software Major Version Number gt Servlet Container Name If any of the first three things changes you will have to request a new License Key from MH Software Inc Your JDBC User ID and Password will not be tran
227. ning the same permissions to 10 Users you can create a User Group assign the permissions to that Group and then add the 10 individuals as members to the Group Users can belong to as many Groups as necessary The User s total permissions will be from the permissions assigned directly to them and the permissions of each Group they belong to The default Connect Daily installation has an Admins group which are Users that have administrative ptivileges and group Users which all Users belong to Edit Group Form Group Name The name to use for the Group Desctiption You should put in a text description of your Group so that other administrators will know what it is for LDAP Equivalent Groups If you have configured the authentication system to use LDAP AD you can enter the LDAP AD groups that are equivalent to this Connect Daily group This allows you to not have to individually set the permissions and group memberships for each Connect Daily user You can specify more than one group to be equivalent to a Connect Daily group Separate each group with a semi colon You can put each group on a separate line but if there are multiple groups they must be separated with a semi colon You can enter the equivalent group name two ways You can enter the complete distinguished name for the group For example CN Domain Admins CN Users DC testing DC mhsoftware DC com Alternatively you could enter it as a regular expression 23 B Inst
228. nization is large and has standardized on an LDAP directory service then we recommend that you use this as the authentication provider for Connect Daily The source code for each authentication provider is also in the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF misc security directory If you wish you can create your own authentication provider that provides login services to Users One final thing to note about the LDAP authentication providers you will still have to add your Users to the Connect Daily database before they can login If you want to eliminate this step you will have to override the LDAP provider to create the Users if they do not exist Implementation Notes on MD5 Authenticator These are some implementation notes on the MD5 Authenticator and its relative security They assume you have a basic understanding of security and cryptography principals 222 Hi Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading If you use the MD5 Authenticator then passwords ate stored in the database as a hash Anyone who can obtain access to the database containing the passwords could conceivably determine the User account password by using a dictionary of hashed passwords The way this works is the bad guy has a dictionary that contains ABC in the dictionary he has the pre computed hash of ABC which translates to 13232312312312312aa When the bad guy gets a database with a hashed password of 13232312312312312aa he finds that hash in his dictiona
229. ntains a very advanced calendating engine that can be used to support just about any kind of Recurring Event Before going further you should watch the recurrence and exceptions tutorial http www mhsoftware com tutotials RecutrenceExceptions The major types of Recurrence supported are Type Description Daily Events that happen each day every N days or every weekday Weekly Examples of weekly events would be Choir practice every Wednesday payday evety Friday etc Monthly Events that occur every month including events that may occut more than once per month such as bi weekly events Annual These are events that occur on an annual basis This type also can be used for bi monthly and quarterly events One Time Events that will only happen once and do not recur Examples would be concerts for a specific date Specific Dates When you cannot express the recurrence using any other type you can use this type to put in the specific dates for an event An example of this would be parent teacher conferences at school They happen 3 times duting the year but there is no rule as to what day Adding a starting date for a Recurring Event will set the date the event will start repeating on If an ending date is specified for a Recurring Event then the event will not recur after that date Exceptions Recurring Events often have Exceptions For example a church choir practices every Wednesday evening except on the Wednesday before
230. ntation of the generated display to portrait or landscape Remember that if you want to print the display your browser s paper size must match the paper size you select here Options When Viewing by Calendar Place included calendars into separate rows If your license includes more than one calendar you can select this option to split out included calendars into separate rows In the example above I m viewing the Everything calendar using this option Each calendar is split out into a separate row showing the events that belong to it 41 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation If an included calendar is empty do not create a row for it If the separate rows option is enabled you might get a lot of blank rows for calendars that have no events By setting this option calendars that don t have an event are not displayed as rows Options when Viewing by Resource When viewing by resource type omit any resources that have no events When viewing by resource type every resource that 1s in that type 1s displayed as a row Checking this option will skip resources that don t have events assigned to them When viewing a single resource show days down with hours across The default planner view is to show the time as one continuous strip along the top axis If you re viewing a single resource for a longer period this can cause the individual events to be very small By setting this option each day will be a row in
231. nual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading Requirements P The web browser must send the specified cookies to Connect Daily Usually this is accomplished by setting the cookie s domain to the parent domain E G sample org The URL for the calendar must be in the same domain E G calendar sample org P There must be active code at the other web application that can accept the Connect Daily authentication request and return whether the user is authenticated Essentially you must construct a stub application to do this Configuration Before continuing add at least one administrator level account to Connect Daily that has a user name you will use for cookie login Create the file cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF singlesignon properties file Here s an example to get started cookieRegex fusion_ AuthURL https www sample org fusionauth php ErrorRegex Error n userRegex UserName n emailRegex EmailAddress n Debug yes Complete information about parameters for singlesignon properties can be found in the class documentation for AuthProviderCookieSignon This file can be found in the WEB INF misc security folder Create the authentication stub handler to accept the Connect Daily request There s an example stub application in the WEB INF misc security directory Add a line to the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF configuration properties that specifies the Cookie authentication provider AuthenticationProvider com mhsoftware
232. o block will show all undo options regardless of the user who created it If you don t have system configuration permission then you can only undo actions that you performed If you import an event modify the event and then undo the import the event and it s modifications will be deleted If you import an event and the event is modified locally and modified at the import source and then re imported the last modifications will be kept When events are restored the limitations are gt Any file attachments will no longer be associated with the event gt Any reminders that were associated with a deleted event will not be recreated gt Resource conflicts are not detected when an event is restored after being deleted An event restore will only happen if the import caused an event to be deleted The only case this can happen 1s if an iCal source file has a status for an event of Cancelled 98 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Notifications and Reminders There are two mechanisms to communicates changes to users and remind them about events They are Notification Requests and Reminders Before getting started you should watch the Notification and Reminders Tutorial http www mhsoftware com tutotials NotificationsAndReminders Notification Requests allow you to receive a Notification when a new event you are interested in is added Reminders let you get an Email some time before an event Th
233. occurs during the specified period the entry will only be returned one time newest 1 If this value is specified rather than returning the next dayspan days of events the maxcount newest events will be returned In other words the maxcount most recently edited events will be returned 71 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation reverse 1 Reverse events from the natural order rollup 0 Don t roll up events from included calendars into this export 1 Default Follow the option set at the calendar level for rollup show resources 0 Do not add resource names to event title 1 Add resource names to event title The default behavior if this argument is not specified is to follow the user s preference for Show Resources by Default user id The presence of the user id and token parameters allow you to specify a URL to data that would not otherwise be visible Users can invalidate their token export token by going to any of the data export screens and selecting the icon to re generate the access code Examples Retrieve the last 5 concerts added to the concert calendar http www mhsoftware com caldemo rss calendar id 7 xml newest 1l amp maxco unt 5 Retrieve concerts for the next two weeks up to a maximum of 12 concerts omitting holidays rolled into the calendar http www mhsoftware com caldemo rss calendar id 7 xml dayspan 14 amp max count 12 amp rollup 0 Retrieve the concert calendar
234. office staff should approve usage of any common room Library Gym Music Room etc We would configure the system in the following way 75 BW Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation gt Create the required groups Admins that has complete permissions to all calendars and all system configuration permissions The default Connect Daily installation already has this group present Make the minimum number of people necessary members of this group Office for people to have permissions to the internal staff calendar Everyone all people including the GUEST User gt Users for all Users EXCEPT the GUEST User In other words people with logins gt A group for each grade section gt Create the user accounts for the teachers and staff gt Assign all people to the Users and Everyone Group Add members of the office staff to the Office Group Assign each teacher to the appropriate grade section Group Create the internal staff calendar and use the Manage Security Wizard on page 85 to assign the Office Group permission to use it Grant the Users Group permissions to view the calendar gt Create a calendar for each grade section and give the corresponding grade section group permissions to use it Create a calendar for each teacher and give the teacher permissions to use it When creating the calendar add the School Schedule calendar as an included calendat Assign group Everyone View p
235. ol panel in the DNS section Create a CNAME or alias DNS record for calendar that points to yourdomain mhsoftware com The trailing period shown above is important Don t omit it Once you ve configured this DNS record test it by putting the URL http calendar yourdomain com into your browser If it doesn t work please EMail technical support with the name of the virtual host you would like to use How a CNAME Virtual Host Works The way a CNAME or alias DNS record works is like this 1 The browser says Give me the address for the computer calendar yourdomain com 2 Your DNS Server responds I don t know the address but if you look up the name yourdomain mhsoftware com that s the address 3 Your computer then contacts the DNS server for mhsoftware com and says I need the address for yourdomain 4 Our DNS server responds The address is xxx xxx xxx xxx 5 Your browser then connects to that address As part of the web page request it sends the host name calendar yourdomain com 6 Our server routes the request to the calendar for yourdomain Chapter 4 Customizing Appearance In This Chapter Customizing Appearance Overview sessssseeeeeeeneneteetntnnes 159 Cascading Style Sheets eiecit ette erts E 159 Customizinp coh ciini E orit ener etin 159 Setting Different Colors for Events sss 160 Disabling Feat tes ce rmt iier eda oii ise oreiis 160 Change Colors SCteeti e peut tecti HEU t
236. ons file Localizing Headers and Footers Instructions and EMail Templates To localize the instructions and EMail templates go to the custom instructions and templates directory and create a directory named with the two letter language code you wish to translate to If you were translating German you would create a de directory in each of the three directories Recursively copy all of the files from the en sub directory of each directory to the newly created directory For Windows cd custom mkdir de cd de xcopy en s e For UNIX 265 B6 Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Reference cd custom mkdir de cd de cp a en Once you have created the directory structure for your target language translate the files within it If a translation is not found for a specific file the system will drop back to English for the file Headers Footers EMail Templates and instructions should be saved using UTF 8 encoding Appendix A Software Installation Checklist Install the database software Create the database and run the Schema creation script Refer to SQL Database Installation see SQL Database Setup on page 201 for instructions Install the servlet engine application server software Install the JavaMail API in the servlet engine application server library directory Create the Connect Daily application directory Unpack the Connect Daily application files in the new di
237. or then attempts to view pages on that computer with a browser will return a Server Not Found error See Also Virtual Host on page 273 Index Resource Planner View or Gantt Chart The Gantt chart or Resource Planner View invented by Henry Gantt is a time phased graphic display of activity durations It is also referred to as a bar chart Activities are listed with other tabular information on the left side with time intervals over the bars Activity durations are shown in the form of horizontal bars Source Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms V 2 1 270 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Reference IFRAME An IFRAME is an HTML In Line Frame It can be used to create a pottal within a web page The content of the inline frame or portal is supplied by a URL to another web page It is not necessary for the URL to be on the same server In other words the IFRAME content can come from an entirely different page or site For the technically minded the IFRAME acts like a scrollable DIV where you can set a source URL for the content The HTML code for an IFRAME would look something like this lt iframe frameborder no scrolling no id calendarframe src http calendar sample com View html width 690 height 1024 gt lt iframe gt Index iCalendar RFC 5545 iCal is a text file format designed for publishing calendar information For information about the iCal format refer to RFC 55
238. or the background of yout page Page Text Color using the color palette on the right choose the color you wish for the text in your header and footer and the page text in the calendar system Heading Background Color using the color palette on the right choose the color you wish for the background of your calendar heading Note on the calendar month view this is the banner across the top of the calendar that includes the calendar title Heading Text Color using the color palette on the right choose the color you wish for the text on your calendar heading Note on the month calendar this is the text color of your calendar title and days of the week Day Numbers and Times using the color palette on the right choose the color you wish for the day number and event times for each calendar day Calendar Background Color using the color palette on the right choose the color you wish for the background of your calendar You may or may not want this color to be the same as your page background Event Color using the color palette on the right choose the color you wish for the daily events on your calendar You may customize your events further by using Event Types and Item Styles Chapter 4 MM Customizing Appearance Note if you ate already using Item Styles the item style color will be shown instead of the event color Event Description Color When displaying the event description in the week view list view or day view
239. osely gt This topic gt Configuring LDAP Authentication on page 224 Idap properties Reference Guide on page 227 2 Download an LDAP browser like Xp orer http sourcefotge net news group id 55394 You can use the LDP program that comes on the MS Win2k Server CDROM but J Xplorer is going to be easier to follow 3 Consult with your internal AD guru Overview The configuration file Idap properties in the CDaily x x x WEB INF folder contains detailed information on how you can configure the authentication system Carefully look it over and in particular read the theory of operation section for configuration information It s really important that you know up front you ll need someone who understands your AD implementation to configure Connect Daily SSL LDAP Setup on Windows If your AD servet does not already have the Certificate Authority software installed read the article http social technet microsoft com wiki contents atticles 2980 1dap over ssl ldaps certificate aspx The default behavior of Connect Daily is to trust the SSL certificate This is not the most secure option but will be OK for most needs If you want Connect Daily to verify the LDAP over SSL certificate each time perform these steps Export the CA certification from your certificate authority in DER format 1 Start the Certification Authority Manager program 225 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading
240. ottleneck in the application Scaling Suggestions If you are finding that Connect Daily isn t meeting your performance requirements here are some suggestions to achieve higher results 1 Multiple CPUs Higher Grade CPUs The testing was done with a single consumer grade 32 bit P4 CPU A CPU with larger cache or multiple CPUs would probably scale linearly 2 Separate the database from the application server Get a second dedicated machine to act as the database server for the application server and link the two using a dedicated high speed interconnect Along with separating the database you may want to experiment with commercial databases to see if better results can be obtained 3 Configure multiple application servers There are two ways of doing this a If you are fronting the application server with a standard web server then the re director can be configured to load balance servlet requests across multiple application servers 198 Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading b If you are using the application server in stand alone mode we recommend you use a hardware load balancing device to map requests to multiple back end units Server Configuration Hardware Supermicro 5014C MT 1U Rackmount 3 0GHz Pentium 4 CPU w 1MB Cache 2GB RAM 2 200GB Seagate SATA Drives configured for RAID 1 using Linux Kernel RAID This setver was configured for hosting up to 200 copies of Connect Daily at the sa
241. ounting This feature can be enabled or disabled in System Configuration System see System on page 133 by changing the option for Enable ala carte calendar selection for event inclusion Standard Mode Inclusion Ala Carte Selection Not Enabled When you use Standard Mode Inclusion event inclusion is defined at the calendar level You can create each calendar and specify what child calendars feed into it At the event level you can change the privacy for an event to control whether it is included in other calendars When a user in sales creates an event it will be displayed in the Sales Calendar Administration Calendar and in the Company calendar The user can set the privacy for the event to Don t Include and the event will be displayed only in the sales calendar With Standard Mode Inclusion it s all or nothing An event is either rolled up to all the other calendars ot not Ala Carte Calendar selection allows you to pick and choose which calendars an event is displayed on Ala Carte Calendar Selection Inclusion When you select the calendar when creating an event the default inclusions will be the pre defined calendar inclusions configured for that calendar However the user can also assign the event to be included on any calendar they have permission to create events on 144 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation This method provides maximum flexibility When you create an event you can selec
242. ources Calendar Event Types 86 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Next click on an Item in the Available Items pane and then click on the gt right arrow button to move the Item into the Selected Items side You can mark multiple Items by using shift and click or control and click Manage Security Wizard Step 2 of 3 Choose the type of things you want to give permissions to by making a selection from the dropdown Object Type Calendar m Select and move the things you want to assign permissions to from the available box to the selected box Available Calendars Selected Calendars All Events All Sports Events College Sports gt Colorado Avalanche aa Colorado Mammoth Colorado Rapids asa Colorado Rockies Concerts X Step 3 Select the Permissions to Assign Check off the permissions you wish to assign If you want to remove all permissions UNCHECK all of the options Calendar Permissions on page 77 Resource Group Permissions sce Event Types Resource Types Resource Groups Permissions on page 79 Resource Type Permissions see Event Types Resource Types Resource Groups Permissions on page 79 Resource Permissions on page 80 Event Type Permissions see Event Types Resource Types Resource Groups Permissions on page 79 87 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Up to this point the changes have not bee
243. outside this date range using the next previous icons on the calendar view Enable Rich Text editor for event description Setting this option to yes will enable the rich text editor for the event description This will allow you to apply basic formatting bold insert images etc into the event long description Connect Daily allows you to use a Rich Text editor to create the long description for events You can also use the Rich Text Editor for creating a custom header that is displayed when you are logged in The rich text editor is the Dojo Dijit Editor available as part of the Dojo Toolkit available from http www dojotoolkit org Features The editor allows you to format text including bold italic underline text color text background color etc You can also insert links and images Finally you can control the text alignment and insert numbered and simple lists As you move your mouse over the icons in the editor toolbar a tooltip will be displayed These tooltips explain the function of the icon Compatibility The editor works by creating a window and telling the browser to put that window into design mode To a very large degree the behavior of the window is dependent on the browser For example we ve seen problems copying and pasting when using Internet Explorer This is not a defect in Connect Daily or the Dojo editor but a defect in Internet Explorer If you are copying pasting text from Microsoft Word be sure to u
244. oval Request Messages and save changes Your Email address is used in the contact info for the event If you have a calendar account you can disable the message using the instructions above If you don t have a calendar login and the calendar system setting for Notify contacts on event add is set to Yes you will always receive this message Notification and Reminders Password Reset Message Someone has requested the password associated with your Email address be reset The calendar system allows you to create an account and receive notifications when events are created or edited and reminders for events You can do this without having a regular login to the calendar system This message is sent to reset the password used for this Email Address Confirmation Message The calendar system allows you to receive messages when events are created or changed or create reminders fot specific messages Program Operation When you sign up for this service an Email message is sent to the address you specified so that we can make sure the address is entered correctly Once you receive this message click on the link in the message to complete the confirmation process Recurring Import Link Disabled Message The calendar system allows you to create recurring import links That is you can establish an import and have it automatically re executed on a schedule If you re getting this message it means that some sort of error has happened during
245. ove one time Events Recurring Events that have ended and Exceptions from the Calendar Purging the database does the following gt Removes all Calendar Events whose ending date has passed gt Removes all Specific dates Exception dates that have passed gt Removes all Specific date events that no longer have any specific dates associated with them gt Removes all audit trail entries prior to the specified date To access the purge screen choose SYSTEM PURGE DATABASE from the menu If you don t see that option you will need to contact your system administrator to get permission assigned to use the feature 135 HM Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Item Style Setup For this screen to be present the system wide option for Izem styles are linked to event types must be set to no If It is set to yes then item styles are edited at the Event Type Screen Use the Item Style Setup to create styles that can be applied to calendar events Use these styles to change the fonts color and appearance of your calendar events To begin select SYSTEM ITEM STYLE SETUP from the menu Enter the numbet of styles you wish to create and click on the Save button Once you create styles you can assign them as defaults on calendars and set them on each individual calendar event If desired grant Users or Groups the Assign Item Style privilege for the calendars using the Manage Security Wizard or Manage Security S
246. ow Repeating Events Each Time Delete Close Title This is the title displayed above the widget List Events By and List Events For let you select what calendar to show You can list events by calendar location type of event or resource used Max Days In Future This is how far in the future to search for events Setting this value to 0 will display only the current day s events Max Events This is the maximum number of events that should be listed The program may return more than the requested number of events Say you have Max Events set to 6 and today has 5 events and tomorrow has 3 events If the program listed just the six events the person viewing the calendar could misunderstand and think that there was only one event tomorrow So the default behavior is to return all events for a day Date Format Date format used for the simple list of events Refer to http codex wordpress org Formatting_Date_and_Time http codex wordpress otg Formatting Date and Time 175 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Web Site Integration Other Options For advanced use Say you want to list only events on a specific calendar that use a specific resource You could add the resource id to this box to create the secondary filter E G resource id 3 Refer to Filtering on Mulitple Options for additional information Show Repeating Events Each Time By default a repeating event is only shown the first time that it ha
247. p can manage the security for that User Group System Wide Permissions System Wide Permissions are permissions that apply to the calendar system and not a specific instance of an Item Calendar Resoutce etc Permission Description Calendar Add Users or Groups with these permissions can create things of the specified Resource Group Add type Resource Type Add Resource Add Calendar Event Types Add Jsers Add User Groups Add Users Delete Users or Groups with this permission can delete any User Users Edit Users or Groups with this permission can edit any User User Groups Delete Users or Groups with this permission can delete any User group User Groups Edit Users or Groups with this permission can edit any User group Can use advanced edit Users or Groups with this permission can use the Bulk Exception Add and import screens form and the iCal CSV Import Edit System Users or Groups with this permission can change system wide Configuration configuration options for the Connect Daily installation Holiday Add Forms Users or Groups with this permission can use the Fixed and Moveable Holiday Add forms to populate calendars Manage Per Item Users or Groups with this permission can create and edit Item Styles for Styles calendar events Purge Database Use the database purge screen to remove old entries from the database 81 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Edit User Preferences Creat
248. page from The web server then directs the request to the proper files and sends them to the client Sometimes system administrators will run many tens or hundreds of websites on the same computer The computer that hosts these sites has one internet address Using DNS the names for these tens or hundreds of computers is configured to be the address of the host computer This process is called virtual hosting Virtual hosts require a two part configuration the DNS resolution and the application server Each part must be properly configured for virtual hosting to work See Also Creating a CNAME or Alias for Your Calendar on page 154 273 Hi Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Index A Accessibility 271 Accessing the Mobile Versions 149 Active Directoty 225 229 237 Add Calendar Wizard 31 Add Existing File 52 Add New File 52 Adding and Editing Resource Types 24 26 58 Adding and Editing Resources 25 58 Adding Calendars 29 145 Adding Event Types 33 Adding Groups 21 75 Adding the Ajax code to your web page 189 Adding Users 22 Advanced Editing Features 110 Advanced Search 41 AJAX 189 273 Ajax Integration of Connect Daily 169 189 Allowing the Public to Add Events 187 248 252 Android Support 63 147 149 151 273 Apache Derby Configuration 208 Appearance 118 Appendix A Software Installation Checklist 205 270 Appendix B Section 508 Accessibility
249. plied before the reverse operation is performed rollup 0 Don t roll up events from included calendars into this export 1 Default Follow the option set at the calendar level for rollup 68 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation show resoutces If show resources 1 then resource names assigned to the event will be suffixed to the event title If this value is not specified the user level preference will be used Regardless of this setting resources are exported on the event as an array of resource objects Start Date in Julian day number format startdate Dates for start and end of exported data This should be either in yyyy mm dd format or the correct format for the request s first accept enddate language user id The presence of the user id and token parameters allow you to specify a URL to data that would not otherwise be visible Users can invalidate their token export token by going to any of the data export screens and selecting the icon to re generate the access code Examples Retrieve a list of calendar the user can view http calendar yourdomain com jsonp calendar id list js Retrieve the next 7 days of events from a specific calendar http calendar yourdomain com jsonp calendar id 3 js dayspan 7 Retrieve a maximum of 12 events for a specific resource and send it to a Javascript function named MyCallbackFunction http calendar yourdomain com jsonp resource id 3 js c
250. ppens If you want a repeating event to be shown for each day it happens check this option Detailed List of Events Shortcode The detailed list of events shortcode drops a list of events into a WordPress page or post It displays the date time long description and other information about the event Here s an example Upcoming Events TUESDAY DECEMBER 25 2012 Christmas TUESDAY DECEMBER 25 2012 5 30 PM Blossoms of Lights http www botanicgardens org events exhibits special events blossoms of light Embrace the holiday season at Blossoms of Light Over one million colorful lights draped in elegant designs highlight the Gardens winter beauty Romantic and popular kissing spots will return as well as the always anticipated HoloSpex glasses Warm drinks and tasty treats will also be available Seasonal entertainment will be available on select evenings Thousands of lights in our amphitheater are synchronized to your favorite holi day tunes The Boettcher Memorial Tropical Conservatory will be closed during Blossoms of Light The Orangery and Marnie s Pavilion will be open 176 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Web Site Integration To insert the shortcode into your page edit the page In the Visual Editor click on the Calendar Button Icon E open the shortcode dialog Connect Daily Web Calendar Insert a Connect Daily Web Calendar shortcode Type of Short Code Detailed List of Events Ev
251. present at the calendar level the name of the header or footer files specified will override the defaults specified in the configuration properties Things to note with custom headers and footers 1 The custom header must be a complete valid HTML header block including the DOCTYPE HTML tag HEAD tag with style sheet specification and BODY tag 2 Files should be encoded as UTF 8 3 The custom footer must not contain closing BODY and HTML tags We recommend that you test the completed pages using the HTML Validator at http validator w3 org Display calendars in a frame The HTML fragment below will display a standard navigation frame on the left and Connect Daily s month view calendar on the right html head title My website lt title gt head frameset cols 30 70 gt lt frame name TOC SRC MyMenu htm gt frame name BODY SRC calendar ViewCal html frameset html Allowing the Public to Add Events Connect Daily can be configured to let the general public add events to the calendar without logging in To allow the public to add events 1 Click on Home and then click on the link to Setup Public Calendar Viewing Check the option Can the public add events to the calendar 185 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Web Site Integration 2 Ifdesired use the Change Header screen to generate a new header with a link to the create event screen If you don
252. r Viewing Setup Public Calendar Viewing is a quick way to allow the public to view selected calendars Can people view calendars without having to login Checking this option will allow your website visitors to view your chosen calendar s Unchecking the option requires that users log in before viewing any calendat Selecting Calendars If you have more than one calendar licensed a selection mover appears to allow you to select what calendars the public can see Select all the desired calendars from Available Calendars and move to Visible Calendars using the mover or double clicking on the available calendar You can set the order of the calendars within the calendar selection dropdown by using the up down mover arrows to the right of Visible Calendars Can the public add events to your calendar If you would like your website visitors to be able to add events to your calendar choose Yes if not choose No Events added by the public must be approved If this option is selected then any publicly added events will have to be approved before they are displayed on the calendar We STRONGLY urge you to do this 33 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Can the public create new locations when creating events If you select this option then public users can create new locations at the time they create their event Enable IFrame Calendar Widgets Refer to Frame Integration on page 181 Show Stop Times
253. r calendar events in rows You can access the planner view by selecting View Planner View from the menu 40 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Here s an example of what it looks like gt ERTIEB uU BIN Go Select View gt All Events v All Events Fridav November 15 1 00 PM 2 00 PM International Gem amp Jewelry Show 11 15 2013 11 17 2013 Denver Zoo Free Day 11 15 2013 Nuggets vs Minnesota 11 15 2013 6 00 PM 9 00 PM i Water of Life Festival 11 15 2013 7 00 PM 9 30 PM Xcision 11 15 2013 7 30 PM All times displayed relative to America Denver You can set the time span to any value Keep in mind that if your event is an hour long and you set the petiod for a month then that event will be displayed at about 1 720th the width of the chart When you re viewing the planner view you can add a new event by clicking on the desired start area in the display and dragging your mouse to matk the time In this example click your mouse button just to the right of the 8 00 AM divider and holding the button down move the mouse to the right to the 2 00 PM divider and release the mouse button Options Clicking on the plus icon in the options header will expand that section to display settings that control the appearance of the generated view Paper Size Paper Orientation Using these options you can set the size of the display from A4 to E size and set the orie
254. r database side event filtering to work you ll need to copy the WEB INF lib MHS jar file into the Derby LIB directory and edit the appropriate startup scripts to load the JAR file 204 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading IBM DB2 Configuration 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Create the database Add the User fot the calendar database Connect to the database as the User created above Using Command Center open the schema script cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF sql IBMDB2 calschema sql for DB2 and execute it Configure backup Copy the JDBC Driver files to your application server s path or the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF lib directory Configure the JDBC entries in the configuration properties file DBObjectClass com MHSoftware db support IbmDB2DB JD BCDriver com ibm db2 jcc DB2Driver BCConnectString jdbcNV db2N CALENDAR BCPassword calendar JDI JDI JDI BCUserlID calendar Microsoft SQL Server 2005 2012 Configuration 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Visit http www mictrosoft com sql technologies jdbc default mspx and download the Microsoft JDBC drivers and install them Copy the installed SQLJDBC4 JAR file into the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF lib directory If you re using JDK 1 5 copy SQLJDBC jar not SQLJDBCA jar Start Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Verify the server properties allow mixed mode authentication If it s not set for
255. r example you are translating Polish for which the native character set is ISO 8859 2 Copy captions properties to a file named polish and perform your edits The editor that you use will have to save the characters in the character set for your language Next run the command native2ascii encoding UTF 8 polish captions_pl properties In the example above the translated file is saved by the editor in UTF 8 format If you use a different file encoding replace UTF 8 with the encoding you saved the file in When you are running Connect Daily a missing caption will generate a Java Exception You can check to make sure that you have all required captions This is particularly important if you have self translated caption files and you are upgrading to a newer version of Connect Daily To use the bundleChecker run the following command java classpath path to cdaily jar gt com mhsoftware cdaily support il8n bundleChecker captions properties captions language code gt properties The bundleChecker program will list any missing captions on the screen Tip Running the bundleChecker will create a file name MasterList txt which contains all of the words in the resource bundle You can use this file to get a word count for translation The master captions properties file contains notes on the usage and substitution parameters of the strings If you are unsure of the parameters ot how a caption may be used check the master capti
256. r runs on To fix this have your mail administrator enable relay for this host You may also be able to use SMTP TLS Authentication to get around this 4 The mail host won t allow mail to be sent using the specified mail from address You may need to set this to an address in your domain 5 HELO EHLO Problems Under some circumstances the Java mail API won t send the fully qualified name of the calendar host If you define a System property of mail smtp localhost then that property will be used as the host name for the HELO EHLO command Mail Host Requires Login to Send As an anti spam feature many Internet Service Providers require their subscribers to login to their mailbox prior to using the SMTP server to send mail If your ISP does this enable this feature and configure the login information below Mail Host Login Protocol This describes the kind of authentication method the mail server you use has For most Users it will be POP3 If you are not sure check your EMail Client account configuration If you set the Login Protocol to SMTP TLS then you must do the following 1 Make sure you are using JavaMail API jars version 1 3 2 or latet 2 Import the CA certificate used to sign the SMTP servers TLS certificate into the Java installation cacerts file The steps I had to follow wete openssl x509 inform pem in etc postfix ssl cacert pem outform der out TLSSignerCert der keytool keystore path to jre lib security ca
257. rce type as well to use a resource Approve requests to use this Resource Users with this permission can approve resource requests from other Users in the system When Users with this permission create an event that uses a resource the request to use the resoutce will default to approved If no one has this permission then requests to use the resource are automatically approved Refer to Using Resource Management on page 60 for additional information Manage Security for this Resource Users with this permission can assign and edit the permissions that other Users have for this resource Delete this Resource Delete will not be allowed if there are any events in the calendar that use the Resource If you need to retire a Resource but want to keep those old events around then you should remove the View Usage and Use This Resource permissions from all Users View usage of this Resource Users who have this permission can view calendars or Resource Planner View for this resource Edit this Resource This permission allows the User to change the definition of the resource including the type name and other elements Use this resource for events Users who have this permission can assign this resource to events that they create 80 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Users and Groups Permission Description Manage Security Users or Groups that have this permission for another User Grou
258. rdomain org gt yourdomain org matches any host name ending in yourdomain org gt calendar a z yourdomain org matches host names in the form calendat aaa yourdomain org For licensing information on the Virtual Host Mapping Module please contact MH Software Inc 138 BW Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Facebook and Twitter Connect Daily allows you to post events directly to your Facebook and Twitter accounts Using Connect Daily you can create a scheduled campaign of posts about a specific event For example if you have a major event you can post the event to your Facebook account immediately Then 6 weeks before the event you can make a large post about the event to encourage people to sign up You can post a reminder 1 week before the event and finally you can send out a message the day before the event Visitots to your calendar can also Like or Tweet about events Letting Visitors Like or Tweet About Events Connect Daily uses the AddThis com service which allows visitots to your site to like or tweet about events To enable this go to System Configuration Sync Export Options and set Enable AddThis Social Networking Support to Yes Setting up a Social Media Account for Connect Daily If you haven t already done so please watch our social media integration tutorial Shockwave Tutorial http www mhsottware com tutotials SocialNetworkIntegration MP4 Tutorial http www mhsot
259. rectory Edit the configuration properties on page 202 file Add the application to your application server configuration Add the JDBC Driver files for your database to the application server class path or to the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF lib directory Add mappings for your application to your web server configuration Restart the application server if necessary Restart the web service if necessary Configure backup scripts see Backing Up Your Calendar on page 213 and jobs for the calendar database Request see License Key Request on page 123 and install see Import License Data on page 124 software License Key 266 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Reference Appendix B Section 508 Accessibility Section 508 refers to the accessibility requirements for US Government websites It mandates that all Government websites be accessible to the handicapped It is similar to the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and the United Kingdom Disability Discrimination Act These guidelines all offer recommendations and requirements on the construction of web pages The goal of these guidelines is to make web pages available to people who are visually handicapped We believe that Connect Daily is compliant We have tested the application using a commercial accessibility testing product and found no errors We believe that the watnings reported are spurious and not relevant If yo
260. recur on the specified dates You can come back to this screen and use the undo feature if you want to undo the process Import Holidays Connect Daily allows you to add holidays to your system You can find this screen on the menu under Edit Advanced Import Holidays When you first enter the screen a dropdown list of holiday calendars will be available This list contains holidays for many different countries as well as religious holidays for several different faiths Select the holiday calendat you want to import and hit next Now a list of available holidays on that calendar will be displayed Move the holidays you want to add to your calendar from the Available Items list to the Selected Items list by double clicking on them Once you ve selected the ones you want click on the Finish button A results box will appear telling you how many events were created Here are some other things to know gt You can only import holidays once to one calendar You can t duplicate the holidays into several calendars If you need to do this we recommend you create a Holiday calendar and roll that calendar into yout other calendars Ifyou want you can Undo the import taking the events back out of the calendar To do this re enter the Import Holidays screen and click on the Undo button in the Undo block at the bottom of the screen Jewish Holiday data is provided courtesy of HebCal com http www hebcal com 110 B Installatio
261. ree for setup 1 hour before and 1 hour afterwards for teardown You can create a setup and teardown event not visible to the general public that would mark the gym as used for that extra period Additionally you can put detailed instructions on how to setup the gym for the event on the setup and teardown event Using security you can hide these setup and teardown events so they aren t visible to the public Sync program can pick specific calendars for download Event Type can be the actual type of the event like training This allows viewing by Event Type so you could see all training events for example Disadvantages gt Higher license fee Initially more complex to setup for use 242 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Frequently Asked Questions Are there any differences between the hosted and non hosted versions Connect Daily can be run in three ways Hosted on our servers The hosted version of Connect Daily provides a file transfer screen for uploading images style sheets etc This feature is not present in the non hosted version Installed on your servers Does not contain file transfer screen described above Deployed on your servers as an uncompressed WAR file This is usually only seen in ISP hosting environments Does not contain file transfer screen Some features not available Create Custom Header gt gt Create Internal Header Change Colors doesn t allow custom color selections gt
262. reevseesssressreeesseeesreeessee 167 Joomla M letra ielol mr 168 WordPress Plugin tiet teen tecti 171 IbfarmeInteotatiOl gases ddemceen tenete dexaseussaseneseutbad agsoursencasaaiss 181 Custom Headers and Footets iei ee remettre eria 184 Display calendars inia fr tne iiiesesene reet esteri eret trito oia 185 Allowing the Public to Add Events seen 185 Ajax Integration of Connect Daily sse 186 TARGET BLANK HREF to Open New Window eee 188 Servet Side Includes er titt ttf ih mete tiii ite te bia eei CHOR 188 Calendar Display Options erecto trenes eee ducentes 189 Web Site Integration Overview There are many ways you can merge generated calendars into your website gt WordPress Plugin gt Display your calendar or Connect Daily calendar widgets in an JFRAME see IFrame Integration on page 181 Use Custom Headers and Footers sce Custom Headers and Footers on page 184 Ajax Integration Use Javascript to put calendar information directly into web pages gt Display calendars in a regular frame gt Use the RSS Feed capability see RSS Export on page 69 to insert calendar data into your own web pages TARGET _BLANK HREF to open new window gt Server Side Include of OutputCurrentWeek gt Use the provided JSP samples uniview jsp viewitem jsp to completely customize your own look and feel Colors and fonts used by the calendar ar
263. ress you will receive an Email for each account Make sure you select the right one gt Ifyou don t receive the password reset message check your spam filter Commonly Asked Questions About Security I m the system administrator but there are some calendars can t edit How do fix this Use the Make Super User Screen on page 85 located under SYSTEM SECURITY on the menu 88 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation How can view calendars without being logged in By default if you call the View html page you can view the calendar without being logged in If you re taken to a login screen you can use the Setup Public Calendar Viewing on page 33 screen to enable public calendar viewing How can restrict calendar viewing to people who are logged in In the SYSTEM CONFIGURATION SECURITY screen delete the PUBLIC USER NAME value and click on SAVE CHANGES How can limit what calendars people who are not logged in can see The simplest way to do this is to go to the Setup Public Calendar Viewing Screen see Setup Public Calendar Viewing on page 33 See Also Permissions for Anonymous Users on page 75 User Preferences on page 29 89 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Importing Data Connect Daily allows you to import data in CSV Comma Separated Value format iCal RFC 5545 and RSS formats In general iCal is the preferred format for import because
264. ring for event types This is because designers sometimes want a very different look in their pages than in the calendar To colorize events based on type in the widgets do this In the WordPress administration module go to the Connect Daily Style section At the bottom of the text add dd data item type id nnn EventTitle data item type id nnn color the color to use Replace nnn with the ID of the event type you want to set a special color for To find the event item type go to Edit Event Types and click on the pencil icon It will show you the id of that type Repeat the block of code changing the item type id value for each item type you want to set a specific color for Frequently Asked Questions About the WordPress Calendar Plugin I ve updated my calendar but the plugin isn t showing the changes on my WordPress page The plugin uses caching to maximize performance of widgets and shortcodes You can temporarily disable caching by going to Connect Daily s settings page and using the Disable Caching option What are the version requirements for the WordPress Plugin Reed M Connect Daily 180 Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 181 IFrame Integration This is the easiest method of integrating Connect Daily An JFRAME on page 271 is an inline frame It acts like a portal on your page that displays information from another URL In Connect Daily you can include any of the ava
265. rmation Services Managet b Locate the account your IIS Server runs under Click on the web site in the Connections left pane In the Actions right most pane click on Advanced Settings Note the application pool used c Inthe Connections left pane click on Application Pools Click on the application pool noted in the previous step In the Actions right most pane click on Advanced Settings If you are running under 64 Bit Windows note whether Enable 32 Bit Applications is set to True In the Process Model section note the Identity the application pool uses d Using Windows Explorer navigate to the CATALINA_BASE bin native directory Right click on the folder and choose properties e Change to the Security tab of the properties dialog f Click on the Edit button and then the Add button If necessary change the Look In dropdown to refer to the local machine g Ifthe identity from step 1c is ApplicationPoolldentity enter IIS APPPOOL DefaultAppPool otherwise select the User you discovered in step 1c click Add and finally click OK h Repeat steps d g for the CATALINA_BASE conf directory i Repeat steps d g for the SCATALINA BASEMogs sub directory For this directory ensure that the user noted in step 1c is granted write permissions to the directory Step 2 Create the Jakarta Application a From the sites list select the site or Default Web Site for the calendar Right click on the desired site Fro
266. rs click on the search engine link the calendar will not be in an IFRAME To force your calendar page to always appear within it s IFRAME add the following code to your custom footer SCRIPT TYPE text javascript gt if self location top location top location href http www sample com iframepage html lt SCRIPT gt Replace the URL with the URL to your web site s calendar page See Also Calendar Display Arguments sce Calendar Display Options on page 189 IFrame Widgets Connect Daily supports simple calendar Widgets that you can integrate into your site design These widgets allow you to vety easily take data from the calendar engine and display it in your site Available widgets include Mini Calendar with event days in bold Clicking on a day opens day or list view for that date Simple List of next N upcoming events Clicking on the events pops up a window with the event details gt Detailed List of next N day s upcoming events Event title additional info URL and long description are displayed To enable the Connect Daily calendar widgets go to the Setup Public Calendar Viewing on page 33 screen and check the option to Enable Frame Calendar Widgets and save changes Doing this will copy the calendar widget pages into your Connect Daily calendar Once you ve enabled the widgets a demonstration link will appear next to the option Click on that link You can view examples of the IFrame Widgets on o
267. rts the following features JDBC 2 Driver SQL 92 Outer Joins gt Views gt Declarative Referential Integrity with Cascading Deletes Identity Sequence or Autonumber capability including the ability to retrieve the new values via JDBC If your database meets the features listed above but is not currently supported please contact MH Software Inc We can create a custom port for you Generally porting to a new database will take a developer about 4 6 hours Java Servlet Container Connect Daily requires a Java Servlet see Servlet on page 273 Specification 2 4 or higher compliant servlet container If you do not have a servlet engine we recommend the open source servlet engine Apache Tomcat The servlet engine can run on the same machine as your web server and can usually be configured so that requests to your web server for the calendar are forwarded to the servlet engine Known Servlet Containers Server Name URL Apple Web Objects 5 http www apple com webobjects JRun Server http www adobe com products jrun BEA Web Logic 6 1 and higher http www bea com IBM WebSphere 3 51 or higher http www ibm com Apache Tomcat Open Source http tomcat apache org 194 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading Known Servlet Containers Server Name URL ServletExec http www newatlanta com products servletexec Oracle 91AS http www otacle com For a complete list of Java S
268. ry and then reads across to see the password is ABC and can now login Good password selection can mitigate this risk Passwords sent to the system for authentication are hashed with a seed value To pickup passwords on the network the attacker would have to generate a dictionary using the exact seed value This makes dictionary generation computationally difficult but not impossible In other words to perform a dictionary attack of network traffic the hacker would have to create a dictionary of hashed passwords using the seed value as part of the hashed password Since the seed changes on every login it would be difficult The seed used is the system clock time and the system verifies that not more than 30 minutes have elapsed since the seed s creation This means that a User cannot access the system using a replay attack after 30 minutes have elapsed Passwords are sent as plain text when the User uses the change password screen If you still have concerns about security then we recommend that you use the MD5Sum or LDAP Authenticator in conjunction with an SSL certificate 223 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading LDAP Active Directory Authentication LDAP Active Directory Authentication allow Connect Daily to authenticate users against an existing directory This can eliminate problems with synchronizing passwords between the network and applications Using LDAP AD authentication you can gt Veri
269. s This is the least desirable way because no recurrence information is exported Can I give the general public a way to add events To configure this go to the Setup Public Calendar Viewing on page 33 screen and check the option for Can tbe public add events to tbe calendar Once you ve done this you ll still need to add a link to the custom header to give the users a way of adding the events To do this go to the Edit Custom Header screen see Edit Custom Header on page 162 See Also Allowing the Public to Add Events on page 185 248 BW Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Frequently Asked Questions Can I color events by event type Connect Daily allows you to colorize events two different ways If you have the global configuration setting Item Styles Are Linked to Event Types is set to yes then the colors of an event ate controlled by the type of the event To set the colors by event type go to Edit Event Types and edit each individual type to set the color If you have the global configuration setting Item Styles Are Linked to Event Types is set to no then you can set the colors for an event individually First go to System Item Style Setup on page 136 and define your item styles If you don t see Item Style Setup on the System menu it is necessary to logout and then login again after changing the system configuration Once you have the item styles defined the styles will be available on the edit ev
270. s on page 75 User Preferences on page 29 How can configure for plain text passwords By default Connect Daily stores passwords in a hashed format This is done to protect the passwords if the database should be compromised Sometimes for integration or technical support reasons customers want to store the plain text passwords To do this add the line AuthenticationProvider com mhsoftware cdaily support security AuthProv iderDefault to the configuration properties file If you have any existing passwords stored in the database you will need to put in plain text passwords by editing the Users table To edit the Users table you will have to use a database tool that lets you directly edit the Users table or use SQL Update commands to set the passwords For example Update users set password Admin where user name Admin You can run individual update statements via the SQL Command Window utility available in the Database configuration screen How can transparently log people into the Calendar There are three ways to do this 1 Use container authentication Windows Integrated Authentication The container web server and the browser will transparently log the user in with no action Container security configuration is documented here see Configuring Container Authentication on page 232 2 If you have an existing web application or other system the user is authenticated to you can use Cookie Signon authentication for
271. s this is done by editing the value for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Apache Software Foundation Procrun 2 0 ConnectDaily Parameters Java Options This will send debug information to stdout You should see the certificate exchange and certificate details Make sure the matching certificate is in the keystore If you see a disconnect before the exchange of the certificate from the server refer to MS KB Article 321051 This article contains information even if you are not using a 3rd party SSL certificate http support microsoft com kb 321051 See Also Automatically Creating Users 226 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading Idap properties Reference Guide Overview This help topic documents the ldap properties configuration file This file is contained in the cdaily x x x WEB INF directory and it controls operation of the LDAP authentication system LDAP Configuration can be very complex so you must read this topic completely and carefully The file cdaily x x x WEB INF misc secutity LD AP Authentication Flow Chart pdf contains a flow chart that describes in detail how authentication is performed Broadly speaking there are two modes of operation In the first mode a lookup account is used to turn the supplied user name into a distinguished name DN This distinguished name is then used for the authentication step The one advantage to using this mode is that the user doesn t have to sp
272. s blocks on that planner grid The list view is a list of events for a single day Enable Select View Dropdown Enabling this option will display a dropdown list in the calendar controls section Using the list the person viewing the calendar can select between day view month view week view list view etc Show Only Approved Events By default events that are not approved will show on the calendar Setting this option to Yes will show only events that have been approved Populate all cells in grid for month calendar If this option is set to yes then the leading and trailing cells in the month view calendar will be populated For example if the 1st day of the month is Monday setting this option to yes will display the events on the last day of the previous month Similarly trailing cells that are part of the next month will be populated If this option is set to no then days not part of the current month will not be populated in the grid 119 HM Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Limit the select month year dropdown to the previous three months plus one year By default Connect Daily will show the previous 5 years of dates and the following 10 years of dates in the date selection dropdown on the calendar view This can be cumbersome post people Setting this option will limit the available selections to the previous three months and the next year Even if you select this option you can still navigate
273. s how to install and use it Select the link below to watch the tutorial Shockwave Video http www mhsottware com tutotials WordPtessCalendat MP4 Video http www mbhsottware com tutotials WordPress Calendat WordPressCalendar mp4 Installation Download the plugin from http www mhsottware com bin cdaily plugin latest zip http www mbhsottware com bin cdaily plugin latest zip Install and activate the Connect Daily Calendar plugin We have tutorials available in Shockwave Format http www mbhsottware com tutorials WordPressCalendat or MP4 Video Format http www mhsoftware com tutotials WordPressCalendat WordPressCalendar mpd4 From your WordPress Dashboatd navigate to Connect Daily Settings and enter your calendar URL If you haven t signed up for a Connect Daily calendar click on the provided link to signup for a calendar After the plugin is installed and activated go to the Connect Daily Settings page Follow the on screen information to configute it Web Site Integration Connect Daily Settings Connect Daily Calendar URL http reddwart private mhsoftware com 8080 cale User Name Optional Password Optional Date Time Format LFiYqia Documentation on date and time formatting Disable Caching 7 Disable result caching for 3600 seconds Caching is currently disabled Settings Information Calendar URL This is the URL to your Connect Daily Calendar If you don t already have a calendar you can signup for
274. s location If you re viewing calendars by location and this option is set the location name will appear in the dropdown list as a selection Comments publicly visible If this option is set the public will be able to see the comments about the location 36 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Notes gt To allow users to assign locations to events you must enable the option Enable location entry for events in System Configuration System In order to create locations the user or a group the user belongs to must have the system wide permission Location Add Ifa location is not marked as verified and the event it is assigned to is deleted and no other events reference that location then the location will automatically be deleted as well gt When an event is displayed with an assigned location a link to a map is provided You can control the URL this link uses in System Configuration System ma Krispy Kreme Donuts M Edit Locations amp 218 oli ID 22 Name Krispy Kreme Donuts Address 120th amp Washington Thornton CO Map Latitude Decimal Degrees Longitude Decimal Degrees Map Parent Location None Comments Options Verified View calendars for this location Comments publicly visible Save Changes Manage Security Add Location 37 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Viewing Calendars See Also Basic Navigation Tutorial Month Wee
275. sapiModule DO NOT SELECT IsapiFilterModule it s not the same thing For Executable select CATALINA_BASE bin native isapi_redirect dll For Name enter Tomcat Redirector Click on the Request Restrictions button and then click on the Access tab Set access to Execute and click on OK to finish the Request Restrictions dialog and OK to finish the Edit Script Map dialog A dialog will appear asking if you want to allow this ISAPI extension Select Yes In the connections pane double click on the top level server Then double click on Handler Mappings In the handler mapping list ensure there is not a Disabled mapping for dIl IsapiModule If there is a disabled mapping remove it This would override and disable the Tomcat Redirector Click on the site in the left pane and then in the right pane double click on the Handler Mappings icon Ensure the ISAPI redirector is enabled Step 4 Test Installation If you have Tomcat running either standalone or as a service you should now be able to connect to the machine and access the calendar Open a browser and enter the URL http lt host name calendar login html You should be presented with the calendar login screen If you wish to change the request URI prefix from calendar to something else you will have to edit the file CATALINA_BASE conf uriworkermap properties and change the path component of the context in the CATALINA_BASE conf Catalina localhost calendar xml
276. scheduled post has already been created but not published on the social netwotk it will be deleted If you delete the event but the post has already been published on the social network it will not be removed from the social network Facebook Pages 141 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Ifthe post is a future scheduled post you can view the future posts in Facebook by Choosing Edit Page Use Activity Log and examining the Scheduled Posts section gt Facebook doesn t provide a way for you to edit the scheduled posts but you can use Connect Daily to edit the post if you notice an error Once the post becomes published Connect Daily will not allow you to edit it but you can delete it gt You can delete the scheduled post using the Facebook interface if desired gt One of the strange things we ve noticed about Facebook pages is that if you have multiple admins you cannot view each other s scheduled posts in the Activity Log section Facebook Accounts gt Facebook Accounts do not support scheduled posts so Connect Daily will hold them internally until the designated time and then post them to your account The time will be within 5 minutes of the designated post time gt Once the post becomes published Connect Daily will not allow you to edit it but you can delete it Twitter gt Twitter does not natively support scheduled posts so Connect Daily will hold them internally until
277. screen choose EDIT ADVANCED EDIT CUSTOM FIELDS OR DIALOG DEFINITION from the menu Then click on the Wand icon located right of the title Keep in mind that the Wizard limits what you can do with the custom field definitions For additional capabilities refer to the Connect Daily Source Code Guide Once you have created the custom input tab you must edit your calendar s definition to include the new custom tab Tab Caption Once you create a Custom Field set those Fields will show up as an additional tab on the edit Item screen This Field is the name of the tab that will appear Description Put a short description of the tab and it s Fields here This description is not displayed anywhere Fields For each Custom Field you want to create you must specify the attributes for the Field Order This is the order the Fields will appear You can move a Field up or down by changing its order number Name This is the name of the Field The name should be short and not contain spaces Caption This is the caption that will be associated with the input Field This should be a brief description of the Field Form Control Type This is the type of input Field control the browser should create Examples would be Text Fields Dropdown Lists etc Data Type This is the type of data that should be gathered For example you have a Field for Number of chairs you can set the Field type to integer When the data is entered Connect Dail
278. se the Copy Paste from Word function by clicking on the icon as shown below J 7 Z B e g nig 2 3 D Hii 120 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Speed Some browsers are faster than others On our test computer it takes 4 seconds for the rich text editor to display using Internet Explorer 8 Using the same computer with Firefox 3 10 the page displays in 1 6 seconds If you re having performance problems you may want to consider switching browsers Exporting The various export screens will export the data as you enter it You should be aware that not all programs will handle importing HTML correctly Disabling the Rich Text Editor The Rich Text Editor can be disabled by going to System Configuration Appearance Set the option for Enable Rich Text editor for event description to No Default Page on Login This option lets you set the first page that Users will see after logging in The two choices are the calendar or the welcome page The calendar page will use the User s individual preference to select which calendar view to display Style Sheet This is the name of the Cascading Style Sheet CSS Connect Daily should use The cascading style sheet controls the appearance of the calendars including the fonts and colors displayed If you wish to customize it copy the existing style sheet or go to the Change Colors see Change Colors Screen on page 161 option on the Welcome screen
279. security and permissions if you will have many people using When Things Go Funny If permissions have gotten confused you can use the Make Super User screen on page 85 to reset the Connect Daily permissions To do this from the menu choose SYSTEM There ate two types of permissions SECURITY MAKE SUPER USER Select the User or The first is general system wide Group to give full permissions to Generally the Admins permissions These permissions are group should be used If you don t see Admins select global Examples would be permission our User account from the User s dropdown to use the system configuration screen or to create Calendars Users Groups ot Resources These permissions ate assigned to the User or Group on the User or Group edit screen The second type of permissions are instance permissions These are granted for a specific stance of a thing For example permission to view the Holidays calendar or use a specific resource Tip A User s permissions are the permissions directly assigned to him plus the permissions of all Groups he is a member of In order for a User to be able to view a calendar or resource the User must have permissions to the calendar they wish to view You can edit the permissions for an event by selecting the manage security button at the bottom of the edit screen User groups are a way of simplifying permissions Rather than assigning permissions to 20 people you can create
280. sing the instructions above If you do not have a calendar login you will always receive this message Event Edited Re Approval Required Message An event that was previously approved has been edited The person who performed the edit has the permission Revoke approval of an event when it is edited by this user ot group You ate an Approver for the Calendar You can disable this message if desired To do this login to the calendar and go to Edit Preferences Check the option for Disable Event and Resource Approval Request Messages and save changes Event Edited Re Approval NOT Required Message An event that was previously approved has been edited You will receive this message if You created the event 105 B6 Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation You ate an approver for the calendar and the user doing the edit has the permission Mail Approvers when this user ot group edits an event assigned Your Email address is used as the contact info and the system wide setting Notify contacts on event edit or delete is set to yes Event Created Notification Message An event was added to the calendar AND You created a notification request so that you would be sent an Email about any events added to the calendar OR Another user created a notification request and added you as a CC recipient for the notification request he created The name and Email address of the user who created the notification reques
281. site you want associated with your logo or organization s name Links to Put in Header default links are Month View Calendar Year View and Login These are links to the various calendar views available in Connect Daily You can select any of the Available links by double clicking on the link name and moving it to the Selected Items box The links in the Selected Items box can be sorted into the order you would like them to appear in your header Highlight a specific link then using the up and down arrows located on the right hand side of the Selected Items box move the link up and down until it is in the appropriate position Save your changes Notes for those with an understanding of HTML You can make further custom changes to your header by downloading and editing your header file Right click on the userHeader html link located at the bottom of the Create Calendar Header screen and select save as Note you will want to maintain and keep the userHeader file name Chapter 4 Customizing Appearance Once you have modified and saved your header it can be uploaded using the Transfer File screen to the custom en file Edit Internal Header This page allows you to create a customized heading that will be displayed to users of Connect Daily who are logged in You can use a Rich Text Editor to insert images HTML links and other formatting Connect Daily allows you to use a Rich Text editor to create the long description for ev
282. smitted 123 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Import License Data Once you receive your License Key from MH Software use this screen to import the key Set License Information License File Contents Import License Data If you have problems you may want to refer to I m having a problem importing the license key If you are using MS Outlook make sure that it is not removing extra line breaks The image below shows how the message will appear if this is the case To restore the line breaks click on the message banner Extra line breaks in this message were removed and select Restore Line Breaks 124 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation If you re deploying Connect Daily as part of a cluster make sure you read the installation topic for Clustering Connect Daily License Key Message Plain Text TBI Edit View Insert Format Tools Actions Help d amp Reply L Reply to All y Forward sj aJ 53 Yr LS Extra line breaks in this message were removed From A keyrequest mhsoftware com Sent Thu 5 4 2006 2 22 PM To gsexton mhsoftware com ay Subject Connect Daily License Key Thank you for purchasing Connect Daily Here is the license key for Connect Daily that you requested Copy the strings below onto the clipboard Login to Connect Daily You may have to restart Connect Daily in nr der tn lagin Gn tn the Aystem Configuration Sereen On
283. soft Access to Microsoft SQL Server then you can use the database convetter Note for MS Access Conversions from 64 bit machines If you are converting to or from Microsoft Access on a 64 bit machine you must do the following If you have the 64 bit Access ODBC Drivers installed you can use a 64 bit Java installation for the conversion If you do not have the 64 bit Access ODBC drivers installed you must use a 32 bit Java installation You also need to start 32 bit command prompt by running WINDIR SysWow64 cmd exe You only need the 32 bit JVM for the conversion After the conversion you can use a 64 bit JVM to run Connect Daily if desired Running the Conversion 1 Get the JDBC drivers for each database If you re converting to or from Access the JDBC Driver is already built in to Java 209 Bi Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading 2 Create a configuration properties file for each database Refer to the appropriate manual section for your database 3 Run the schema creation sctipt for the destination database 4 Run the converter java classpath cdaily x x x WEB INF lib cdaily jar Path To Other JDBC Driver Jar Path to Other JDBCDriver com mhsoftware cdaily support db DatabaseConverter source configuration properties destination configuration properties The command is one statement and should be all on one line Note that path separators are characters on Windows and on UNIX a
284. source Approval Screen Approve Resources Resources pending your approval Calendar Description Resource Al Events The Circus PepsiCenter Ap 11 15 2013 8 00 PM Resources Pending Approval by Others Calendar Description Resource a All Events TheCircus Pepsi Center Program Operation Action prove Deny Request Defer Decision Save Changes Ifyou ate not sure if the event should be approved leave the default option of Defer Decision selected gt To approve a request select the Approve option to the right of the event name gt You can add text to the Reason field This information will be included in the EMail to the requester and other Approvers gt You can approve or deny multiple events at one time gt Once you have marked the events to process click on the Save Changes button gt When Resource requests are approved or denied a Notification message is sent to the requester If there is more than one Resource Approver for the Resource a CC message is sent to the other Approvers Resource Groups Resource Groups are a way of tying many Resources together so that they can be selected as one element For example you have a Gymnasium area that consists of the following 62 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Kitchen Gymnasium Overflow 1 Overflow 2 v v v v You can create a Gym Area Resource Group that has all of these Resources associated
285. sources CO Convention Center Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Gardens Denver Merchandise Mart Filmore Auditorium N d oHm BR Hm IH A N The difference is because events using more than one resource are counted once for each resource Tips Only approved events are examined gt Recurring events are counted once for each recurrence during the report period For example if you have a staff meeting every day at 8 00 AM then that event would be counted once for each day Ifaneventis a setup teardown event then these rules apply gt If the report involves resources or resource types the setup teardown event is examined and the parent event is discarded This is so that resource usage is not double counted If the report does not involve resources then setup teardown events are discarded so that events are not double counted You can copy the table containing the data using your browser s copy paste function and then paste it into other programs like spreadsheets or word processors for additional manipulation 47 E Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Creating and Editing Calendar Events Before getting started you should watch the add edit events tutorial see Add and Edit Events Tutorial http www mhsoftware com tutotials AddEditBvents Adding an Event There are four different ways you can add a new calendar event 1 From the Edit Calendars Calendar List S
286. ss this feature from the menu choose VIEW EXPORT Set the date range of events you would like to export and click on the Export button When you click on the Export button your browser will open a dialog box asking if you wish to save the file of open it Opening the file will open the associated program for text csv files which is usually Microsoft Excel Saving the file will place it on yout computer where you can open it latet Internet Calendar iCal RFC 5545 Export Description of iCalendar Format iCal is a text file format designed for publishing calendar information For information about the iCal format refer to RFC 5545 Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification iCalendar Many programs allow you to subscribe to remote calendars and have them appear transparently with the rest of your schedule Some programs that support iCalendar include gt Apple iCal device and desktop gt Google Calendar gt Microsoft Outlook and Live Mail gt Mozilla Lightning gt and many others The RFC for iCal is available from http www ietf otg rfc rfc5545 txt Most users will be able to import iCalendar data from Connect Daily by clicking on the webcal link This should open your calendar software and create a remote calendar link If you do not have a webcal protocol handler installed it does nothing when you click on the link copy the http link onto the clipboard and paste it into your calen
287. sssscsessescsessssesesssscsessssesessecseseseesesseeesessseesesseeeseseeceseseseeseseeeeas Charactet Sets m Localizing Screen Captions seen Localizing Headers and Footers Instructions and EMail Templates Appendix A Softwate Installation Checklist ettet rte anann aR Appendix B Section 508 Accessibility ene eerte aeter eiut ebd senes tese te Ie EEEE Appendix C Importing Religious Holiday Calendars sseseeeeeeeee netten Chapter 1 Connect Daily lusu M 267 Episcopal Liturgical Calenda eei dite a HERE I URREAN RRON ON RRENEN 268 Appendix D Importing Data From Connect Daily Into Google Calendar sse 269 iCalendar REC 5545 p 271 hilo t Resource Type E js d S wins TS ee m Rollup Calendats d 272 RSS Really Simple Syndication ettet ti ceris eH Ue ned en ee EE Ee ee ER XE FE IL Ere Eee NEA 273 SEV iE 273 ben 273 Index 275 Introduction to Connect Daily 4 0 0 Connect Daily is a web based calendar system The software is installed on one computer and allows multiple users on a network to add and edit calendar events using a web browser If the computer is accessible
288. st jmx Apache JMeter File Edit Run Options Help 9 amp Connect Daily Load Test E Thread Group Aggregate Report dll HTTP Header Manag Name Aggregate Report Hit HTTP Request Defa Write All Data to a File Graph Results Gy Constant Timer Random Order Cont Count Average i Max Error Rate f Month View i 1016 357 50 1092 0 0096 4 7isec AP Week View i 1012 412 80 992 0 00 4 7isec Pp Output Current m 1014 354 50 932 0 0096 4 7isec P Dav View i 1013 387 50 1031 0 0096 4 7isec y 1015 81 10 4710 00 4 7isec f Year View 5070 318 10 1092 0 0096 23 4isec 9 1n 10 Get iCal cal Reques Aggregate Report 3 WorkBench il LD Filename Browse Log Errors Only During testing it was noticed that the Week View servlet was taking about twice as long as the other servlets to generate output Investigation revealed that Week View was getting the data set and invoking OutputCurrent Week which was also getting the data set OutputCurrent Week was modified to use a data set stored by WeekView This brought performance into line with the other servlets This would indicate that database access may be a significant issue It is interesting to note that the Year View servlet was a full 5 times faster than the Month View servlet This servlet generates output without any database interaction This supports the theory that the database is the b
289. ste tese tage tests 147 Mobie Device FAO ottenere e YE i NO i diane 147 Mobile Device Tutorials ccccssscscscecesocecscierosversctseestarsonsesevervctseesesrbendeseveroeesoenies 149 Accessing the Mobile Versions There are two key entry URLs for the mobile version The URLs are ViewMobile html The mobile calendar viewer MobileLogin html The mobile login page So if your calendar URL is http organization mhsoftware com then the mobile URL will be http organization mhsoftware com ViewMobile html When you go to the normal Connect Daily login page you ll see a button for logging into the mobile version Just click on it The Edit Custom Header screen has options that you can use to add a link to the Mobile version to your custom headet If you include a link to the mobile version of Connect Daily make sure that it opens in a new window Do not include a link in a page that s IFRAMEd You don t want the mobile pages to run inside the IFRAME you want them to open in their own browser window Use the HTML TARGET attribute to open pages in a new window Mobile Device FAQ How do I get rid of the add event icon on the mobile viewer The mobile viewer displays the add event icon if the user has permissions to add Chapter 2 MM Mobile Operation For the public the user is the GUEST user Login to the standard version of Connect Daily and use the Setup Public Calendar viewing screen to disable the public s a
290. sts and approvals You will receive this message if You created an event that uses a resource that requires approval You are an approver for a resource that requires approval Disabling this Message To disable this message go to Edit Preferences and check the option Disable Empty Approval Messages and save changes Note that if the approver for the resource enters any comment in the approval screen you will still receive this message Resource Approval Deferred Message You will receive this message if you requested a resource or you an approver for that resource This message is sent when an approver for the resource has put in a comment about the event and left the status as deferred This message means the resource request has not been approved or rejected but the operator wants to send a message to the event creator or other approvers This message cannot be disabled 108 HM Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Resource Request Denied Message As part of Connect Daily s resource management system it sends messages about resource requests and approvals You will receive this message if a resource request was denied AND You created the event requesting the resource OR You are an approver for the requested resource The only way to stop receiving this message is to eliminate approvals for the resource in question Resource Request Message As part of Connect Daily s resource management s
291. t Java Servlet Container Free Servlet Container available gt Supported Database Operating System Requirements Server The only requirement for the server portion of Connect Daily is that your operating system has a Java SDK available for it and that your operating system supports TCP IP We have tested Connect Daily or have customers using Connect Daily on the following operating systems gt Linux MacOSX Microsoft Windows gt Server 2012 2008 or 2003 Windows XP Vista 7 or 8 gt gt AIX gt FreeBSD HPUX Java SDK or Java Runtime Environment Since Connect Daily is a Java Servlet application it requires a Java SDK or Java Runtime Engine version 1 6 or higher You can download Java from http www oracle com technetwork java index html If you do not see a Java SDK for your operating system at the Oracle Java site contact yout operating system vendor SQL Database The default installation of Connect Daily uses Apache Derby as the database Installation and Upgrading If you would like to use a different database we support the following gt Apache Derby 10 9 or Higher IBMDB2 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SOL Server 2005 2008 or 2012 MSDE can be used as well gt MySQL 5 0 or higher gt Oracle 9 or higher gt PostgreSQL 7 1 3 or higher Database Requirements for Porting Connect Daily is highly portable across SQL implementations It can be ported to any database that suppo
292. t do this users will still be able to use the Add Event icon on the calendar display 3 If you want to customize the instructions displayed on this page copy the file instructions lt language gt EditItemInstructions html to instructions language EditItemInstructions html custom Make the customizations as desired and upload the file Repeat this process for the file instructions language EditltemHeading html Keep these things in mind when allowing the public to create events gt The approval status for newly added events will follow the normal rules In other words if there are no Approvers assigned for the calendar then events will automatically be approved If Approvets are assigned the Approvers for the selected calendar will receive the Notification that the event was added gt You should set the configuration option so that only approved events ate displayed This will keep the events off the calendar until an Approver reviews them Refer to the topic How can I show only approved events gt The list of available calendars to use will be those calendars the GUEST User has the User or group can add events to this calendar permission for Refer to the help topic Permissions for Anonymous Usets on page 75 User Preferences on page 29 gt The list of available Event types will be those the GUEST User has Use this event type for events permission fot gt You should not enable the system wide option that allows E
293. t the specific calendars each event is displayed on However if you change your organizational structure you may find yourself visiting a lot of events to change them For example if Sales were made it s own top level department then evety sales event would have to be edited to remove them from the Administration calendar If you have ala carte selection enabled and you disable it then all of your specific calendar inclusions are removed and replaced with the default See Also Adding Calendars on page 31 SMS Text Message Reminders Connect Daily allows you to receive reminders for events via SMS Short Message Service text message To receive an SMS reminder the user must go to Edit Preferences and enter the number for their mobile device Once this is done the user will be walked through a confirmation process The confirmation process ensures that the user correctly entered their phone number A validation code will be sent to the mobile device When the user receives it they enter that code and complete the validation process Users can unsubscribe their device from receiving these message by replying STOP to any text message sent by Connect Daily If a user unsubscribes Connect Daily will detect this and make an audit trail entry for that user account documenting the action Hosted Customers Currently this service is only available for US and Canadian Customers Messages sent by Connect Daily will have the phone number 1
294. t will be shown in the Additional Information section of the Email Event Change Notification Message An event was edited and the system wide setting Re Process Notification Requests on Event Change is set to Yes AND You created a notification request so that you would be sent an Email about any events added to the calendar OR Another user created a notification request and added you as a CC recipient for the notification request he created The name and Email address of the user who created the notification request will be shown in the Additional Information section of the Email OR You have cteated a reminder for the event and the option to Notify on Change was checked OR Anothet user created a reminder for the event with the option to Notify on Change Checked and included you as a CC for this reminder Disabling Reminder Generated Messages If you created the reminder delete it by going to the calendar clicking on the event to view the event details and then click on the Alarm Icon If another user created the reminder contact them and ask to be removed from the reminder The contact information for the person who created the reminder will be displayed in the Additional Information section Disabling Notification Request Generated Messages Follow the link in the message to edit or delete the notification request 106 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation If another user created the
295. t with the same name as a Windows user account Ensure this account is a member of the default user group Admins 2 Follow the steps for Integrating Connect Daily with Microsoft IIS see Integrating Microsoft IIS 6 with Connect Daily on page 214 3 Using notepad edit the file TCBase conf server xml Change the line Connector port 8009 protocol AJP 1 3 to read Connector port 8009 protocol AJP 1 3 tomcatAuthentication false Remove the lin Connector port 8080 4 In Internet Information Services IIS Manager right click on the jakarta virtual directory and choose Properties Select the Directory Security tab and click on the Edit button in the Authentication and Access Control section Uncheck Enable anonymous access and check Integrated Windows authentication 5 Add a line to the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF configuration properties that specifies the Container authentication provider AuthenticationProvider com mhsoftware cdaily support security AuthPr oviderContainer 6 Restart the Connect Daily service See Also Automatically Creating Usets 233 BW Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading Automatically Creating Users If the authentication provider you use supports it you can configure Connect Daily to automatically add users Authentication providers that support auto add include LDAP AD Cookie Signon and container authentication Once you v
296. tallation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Frequently Asked Questions How can notify others when an event is added For logged in Users select Edit Reminders from the menu They should then click on the Add Notification Request button If they only want notified when events are added to a specific calendar then change the Notification Request Type to Key Words and Specific Set and select the specific calendar If you have the global permission Add Others to Notification Requests you can use the movers to add Users or Groups to your notification request When you do this any Users or Groups that you select will receive a notification message at the same time that you do For Anonymous Users they should click on the Alarm Clock icon while viewing an event Note Notification about the added event will be sent one hour after the event is added or if the event requires approval after the event 1s approved See Also Email Notifications and Reminders see Notifications and Reminders on page 99 Tutorials on page 13 I m getting notified twice about deleted events If the following conditions are met 1 You are the contact for an event 2 You have a notification request that will match that event 3 The global setting Re Process Notification Requests on Event Change set to yes then this can happen You can keep this by happening by setting the option for Reprocess Notification Requests on Event Change to no How ca
297. te a sub directory named META INF Create an application xml file in the META INF sub directory that contains the following lt xml version 1 0 gt lt DOCTYPE application PUBLIC Sun Microsystems Inc DTD J2EE Application 1 3 EN http java sun com dtd application 1 3 dtd application display name MHSoft display name module web lt web uri gt CDaily lt web uri gt context root context root lt web gt lt module gt lt application gt 211 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading 3 In the MHSoft directory unpack the Connect Daily WAR file in a sub directory named CDaily 4 When you have completed this step the directory hierarchy should look like this applications MHSoft META INF CDaily WEB INF 5 edit the OC4J j2ee home config server xml file Add the following line application name MHSoft path applications MHSoft gt MAKE SURE THIS GOES INTO AN UN COMMENTED PART OF THE FILE 6 Edit the OC4 j2ee home config http web site xml file Add the following line lt web app application MHSoft name CDaily root calendar gt MAKE SURE THIS GOES INTO AN UN COMMENTED PART OF THE FILE 7 Configure the CDaily WEB INF configuration properties file paying careful attention to the JDBC settings 8 Restart the OC4J server The application should now deploy Deploying Connect
298. tems were imported Any Events not imported will be displayed If you have many events you can EMail the URL or file to technical support and we can take a look at it 93 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Notes gt After you do this the first time you may need to use the Repair security screen to set the security for any added Event Types Once an event is imported into a calendar it stays associated with that calendar even if you rerun the import with a different calendar selected gt Ifthe source file contains non standard properties in the format X NAME then Connect Daily will look for a custom field NAME and if found set that field with the value See Also Periodic Event Import RSS Import Using the RSS Import feature you can import data from RSS feeds into your Connect Daily web calendar Connect Daily supports RSS 0 9x 1 0 and 2 0 formats RSS 1s an acronym that stands for Really Simple Syndication Essentially it is a text file format designed for publishing news articles The text is formatted XML There are many readers that let people subscribe to RSS feeds and aggregate them together in one application You can also use RSS feeds to create dynamic HTML for inclusion in websites A detailed description of RSS can be found at http en wikipedia org wiki Really_Simple_Syndication The specification for RSS 2 0 can be found at http www tssboatd org tss specification To acc
299. text Datatype character lt Name gt Fieldi lt Name gt lt Caption gt Field One lt Caption gt lt Field gt lt FieldList gt lt InputTab gt Save Changes Common Issues java io FileNotFoundException http localhost 8080 calendar CustomFields dtd This is happening because the DTD entry in the DOCTYPE tag points to a URL or file that cannot be retrieved Edit the path to point to the correct path By default the CustomFields dtd is in the Connect Daily directory org xml sax SAXParseException The content of element type InputTab must match Caption Description HelpURL ValidationClass ScriptURL BodyEvents FormEvents FieldL ist 114 HM Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation This means that the XML Document definition does not match up with the DTD Elements in the XML document must appear in the same order as described in the DTD and required elements must be present java sql SQLException org xml sax SAXParseException Document is invalid no grammar found This means that the XML parser was not able to find the DOCTYPE tag and the DTD file 115 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Item List Screen Throughout Connect Daily lists of things like Calendars Events Resources Users etc are displayed If you have permission to create Items of that kind an Add button will be available at the bottom of the list If there are many items on the scre
300. the designated time and then post them The actual post time will be within 5 minutes of the designated time gt The maximum length of a tweet is 140 characters URLs regardless of length consume 22 characters Because Twitter internally shortens URLs use of an external URL shortening service e g bit ly will have no effect If you try to save a post that exceeds this limit Connect Daily will throw an error 142 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Printing Issues Printing calendars can be hard This topic explains a few of the problems related to printing and how they can be worked with The most common issue people encounter is trying to get the calendar to print entirely on one page If you can t reduce the font size any further and you re still having some problems here are some tips gt Change your page layout to Landscape If you have a few wide events this can make things fit better gt Adjust the margins of your page In FireFox and Internet Explorer choose FILE PAGE SETUP and reduce the margins Use FireFox or Internet Explorer 7 for printing They have the capability to shrink a page to fit You can download FireFox for free from mozilla com You can download IE 7 from Microsoft com gt Ifyou don t have events on weekends set the option in the Connect Daily configuration to hide Saturday and Sunday The option is located in the SYSTEM CONFIGURATION APPEARANCE scteen The def
301. the IFRAME create your page and save it In the visual editor click on the Connect Daily Web Calendar button B 178 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Web Site Integration Change the Type of Short Code to either Calendar or Add Event Form Select how you want to view the calendar and click on the Add Short Code button Connect Daily Web Calendar Insert a Connect Daily Web Calendar shortcode Type of Short Code Calendar Events List Events By Calendar List Events For ALL EVENTS Calendar Format Calendar Default v IFrame Size Height 1024px Width 100 Cancel Add Short Code Note We strongly recommend that you only insert the IFRAME codes into a page that is using a full width page template with no sidebar The appearance of pages included via IFRAME is controlled by the Connect Daily style sheet To edit it login and from the Home Screen click on Change Colors You can control the custom header by going to Edit Custom Header If Add Event Form is not showing up in the Type of Short Code dropdown you need to enable public add in your Connect Daily installation After you do this also disable caching in the Connect Daily Plugin Settings form See Also Calendar Display Atguments see Calendar Display Options on page 189 179 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Web Site Integration Coloring Events by Item Type The WordPress widgets do not use Connect Daily s colo
302. the box for set extension status to Allowed d Restart the web service Step 6 Test Installation If you have Tomcat running either standalone or as a service you should now be able to connect to the machine and access the calendar Open a browser and enter the URL http host name calendar login html You should be presented with the calendar login screen If you wish to change the request URI prefix from calendar to something else you will have to edit the file CATALINA_BASE conf uriworkermap properties and change the path component of the context in the CATALINA_BASE conf Catalina localhost calendar xml file to the desired name You will also have to rename the file calendar xml to lt path gt xml If you are no longer using the HTTP connector Tomcat runs on port 8080 you can disable it by editing the CATALINA BASENconfNserver xml file Integrating Microsoft IIS 7 with Connect Daily Throughout these instructions there will be references to SCATALINA BASE as the base portion for the file and directory paths displayed For most installations this variable refers to CATALINA BASE 215 Bi Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading C Program Files MH Software Connect Daily VT CBase Note For 64 bit Windows the default path will be C Program Files x86 Step 1 Set Permissions a From the Windows Start menu choose Administrative Tools and then select Internet Info
303. the delimiter that separates the values The code uses a regex split function so the character should not be a special regex character The default delimiter is CheckSSLCertificate If this option is not present or is set to no the validity of the SSL certificate used to encrypt the LDAP session to the server is not verified If this option is set to yes then the SSL certificate will be verified and an error occur if the certificate is not trusted Essentially leaving this set to the default means you don t have to go through the steps to create a keystore for the certificate and mark it as trusted SSL DISCLAIMER Uncomment this configuration value to disable SSL This is a security issue because LDAP sends the username passwotd across the network to the LDAP server as plain text TrustStorePath Path to SSL trustStore containing the SSL Certificate for the LDAP server Essentially putting the certificate in the keystore says you trust it If this value is not supplied the default value of JRE lib security cacerts will be used If you use the default cacetts file in the JRE and then upgrade your JRE things will stop working TrustStorePassword The password for the specified keystore The default Java password for keystores is changeit fullName LDAP Attribute Name for the user s Full name from the directory When a user is created or logged in their full name is set to this value emailAddress The LDAP attribute that
304. the permissions from that Group or take the User out of those Groups To make a calendar visible to the public the GUEST User needs to have permission to view that calendar To require people to login to see calendars clear the value in the Public User Name field in the SYSTEM CONFIGURATION SECURITY screen Attempting to view calendars will redirect the Users to the login page Remember if your database is case sensitive then the entry of the Public User Name must match the users entry Example Security Configuration 1 A Public School A public school has purchased Connect Daily The school teaches Kindergarten 8 Grade with the grades divided into a Kindergarten section a 1 2 section a 3 4 section a 5 6 section and a middle school consisting of 7 and 8 grades Additionally the school rents the gymnasium to a local church on Sundays and groups like Boy Scouts Brownies Girl Scouts and others use parts of the facility after hours The school wants each teacher to have their own calendar for events along with a combined calendar for the grade section Each teacher s calendar should include the school s calendar for holidays and in service days The teacher calendar and section calendars along with the school schedule should be visible to the public The office staff wants to be able to have a calendar visible to teachers but not visible to the general public for scheduling things like conferences and meetings Finally the
305. tifications and Reminders see Notifications and Reminders on page 99 Security Management Tools Manage Security Dialog The Manage Security Dialog is used to manage the permissions for a specific Item Calendar Resource etc Using this dialog box you can assign the available permissions for an Item to Users or Groups You can access this dialog by clicking on the Manage Security button at the bottom of the edit screen for Calendars Users Groups Event Types Resource Types Resource Groups and Resoutces The permissions available to each User or Group depend upon what you are editing Click on the links below to see the permissions for each type of Item Calendars see Calendar Permissions on page 77 82 E Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Resource Groups see Event Types Resource Types Resource Groups Permissions on page 79 Resource Types sce Event Types Resource Types Resource Groups Permissions on page 79 Resources see Resource Permissions on page 80 Calendar Event Types see Event Types Resource Types Resource Groups Permissions on page 79 Users see Users and Groups on page 81 Groups sce Users and Groups on page 81 Generally a check box appears to the left of each permission If the box is checked the User or Group has that permission If the box is not checked then the User or Group does not have that permission 83 E Installation Guide a
306. to attach files or associate URLs with your calendar events For example if your event is a field trip you could attach a parental consent slip and a medical release form You can select from an existing file or upload a new file gt gt Attachments window gt Review your attachments You should now be able to see your file or URL name gt The file or URL description gt The File Size Upload Date and File Type 53 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 To start the attachment process click on the Add Attachment button then select new or existing file After you have selected your files and URLs these attachments will appear in the Edit Calendar Event Program Operation To remove an Attachment from the list click on the appropriate box in the Delete column for the Attachment you wish to remove gt Click on the Save button to complete the process When you return to the calendar view and click on your calendar event any added Attachments will be displayed in the event details pop up window Image attachments or URLs that point to images will be displayed in line on the event details pop up window If the size of an image attachment exceeds the space available the image will be scaled to fit and the height will be scaled proportionately Add New File Use this form to add a new file or URL Attachment to a calendat event gt To attach a file to your calendar event Click on the Browse button
307. to view calendar you should now see your events Removing the Holidays From Your Calendar Return to the iCal Import screen choose View Import Import ICal File from the menu Scroll to the bottom of the screen to the undo block Click on the Undo Last Import button Episcopal Liturgical Calendar Church Publishing Inc has made the Episcopal Liturgical calendar available in electronic format They charge a nominal fee for access to it You can purchase it online at https www churchpublishing org products index cfm fuseaction productDetail amp productID 9700 To import these calendars into Connect Daily follow these steps 1 From the menu choose View Import Import ICal File 2 Select the calendar to import events into 3 Select the file you wish to import 4 Click on the Import button When the import completes you will see a message indicating how many events were imported Removing the Holidays From Your Calendar Return to the iCal Import screen choose View Import Import ICal File from the menu Scroll to the bottom of the screen to the undo block Click on the Undo Last Import button 268 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Reference Appendix D Importing Data From Connect Daily Into Google Calendar To add a Connect Daily calendar into your Google Calendar follow these steps 1 Copy the iCal URL for your calendar onto your clipboard To find the URL view the calendar and click on
308. ttp www dojotoolkit org Due to continued product development this information may change without notice If you find any problems in the documentation please report them to us in writing MH Software Inc does not warrant that this document is error free MH Software Inc 5023 W 120th Ave 311 Broomfield CO 80020 USA 1 303 438 9585 Internet E Mail support mhsoftware com Website http www mhsoftware com Product Version 4 0 0 Manual Preparation Date 5 2 2014 07 27 11 Chapter 1 Program Operation Connect Daily is a powerful and full featured web based calendar system In order to realize the full potential of Connect Daily it will be necessary to spend some time learning about it This chapter contains detailed information on the operation of Connect Daily Before beginning with Connect Daily you may want to take some time and watch our Tutorials on page 13 In This Chapter dior X PM 13 Difference Between Connect Daily Versions eren 19 rivum M 19 Viewing Calendats udeee nera sme ne re ii A 38 Creating and Editing Calendar Events sse 48 Rec ttitig Events e peer PR A TEEMEIH re dE teto tees 58 Using Resource Management sarisini tenentes 60 Export oD ata sess seit 65 Security atid Permissions ssscssicssesssissiessssrsdasosaesdesenszatonssisatessssssdauapenssaconavseessntevectes 74 Tip Ottine
309. tware com tutorials SocialNetworkIntegration SocialNetworkIntegtation mp4 To use Connect Daily to posts events to Facebook and Twitter you must first configure the accounts From the menu choose Edit Social Media If you don t see Social Media on the menu use the System Security Users screen to ensure the account has permission to add Social Media Accounts Type in the name of the media account From the type dropdown select the type of account Valid choices are Facebook Account Facebook Page and Twitter Once you ve set the account type click on the login button You will be redirected to a login page for Facebook or Twitter and it will ask if you want to allow Connect Daily to perform certain actions Regardless of what the prompts say here s what Connect Daily will actually do with your account Facebook gt You will be able to create events status updates notes and posts about your events gt You will be able to use Connect Daily to delete the posts it created You will be able to edit a post that Connect Daily created as long it is not published Twitter gt You will be able to post status updates Tweets gt You will be able to delete status updates Connect Daily will not 139 Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Doanything with your friend or follower list including spam them Notes Connect Daily receives a login token and it uses this token to make posts to Facebook or
310. tween 1 and 5 If you have a really large number of subscribers and a fairly powerful server you might want to set this value higher Sync Export Options This screen contains options for configuring the synchronization module and export features Enable Synchronization Module Setting this option to Yes enables the sync module People using the Synchronization program can extract events for download into MS Outlook or Palm Handhelds Allow Anonymous Users to Use the Sync Feature If this option is set to Yes then Users can anonymously use the Sync program to extract events If this is set to No then Users must have a valid login in order to extract events Enable iCal Export If this option is set a link for downloading iCal files is shown on the Event Detail screen and View Calendar screen For information on iCal files see Description of iCal and Internet Calendar iCal RFC 5545 129 HM Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation 1Cal 1s a text file format designed for publishing calendar information For information about the 1Cal format refer to RFC 5545 Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification iCalendar Many programs allow you to subscribe to remote calendars and have them appear transparently with the rest of your schedule Some programs that support iCalendar include gt Apple iCal device and desktop gt Google Calendar Microsoft Outlook and Live Mail Mozilla Lightning
311. tyle sheet and change the DefaultStyleSheet parameter in your configuration properties file to point to it Tip You can use the Change Colors Screen on page 161 to easily change to a pre defined style sheet or create your own custom style sheet You can specify a different style sheet for each calendar If no style sheet is specified at the calendar level then the style sheet specified by the DefaultStyleSheet property in configuration properties file will be applied The default style sheet for Connect Daily is named userStyle css For information on how CSS works we recommend you visit the W3 Org website http www w3 org Style CSS When you print in Connect Daily it will also reference a style sheet specifically for printing The default printing style sheet is the file css print css You can edit this file to change the appearance of Connect Daily calendars when you print them Note If you change the style sheet for the administration portion of the calendar system you will also need to edit the menu var js file in the cdaily 4 0 0 scripts directory This file controls the colors for the menu system Customizing Icons Connect Daily uses font based CSS icons The CSS Classes of the icons are in the INF classes css icons propetties file Chapter 4 Customizing Appearance If you want to change them copy the calendar icons properties file to custom icons properties and then add the line IconsFile custom icons
312. u can backup your data from the System Configuration Database Configuration screen Otherwise you ll have to use the tools your database provides It is impossible for us to write any instructions other than The cdaily 4 0 0VEB INF misc directory contains sample backup scripts for PostgreSQL and Sybase SOL Anywhere on UNIX Integrating Microsoft IIS with Connect Daily This section covers integrating Connect Daily with Microsoft HS This is only necessary if the server is running other web sites that Connect Daily needs to integrate into If the server is a single purpose server that will only run Connect Daily these steps are not necessary By default Connect Daily installs the Apache Tomcat application server which has a built in web service If you don t need to integrate with other web sites on the same server you can follow these instructions to get tomcat to run on port 80 for http 1 In Control Panel Services ensure that the World Wide Web Service is stopped and the startup is set to manual 213 Bi Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading 2 Stop the Connect Daily service 3 Using Notepad edit TCBase conf server xml Edit the connector port change the port from 8080 to 80 4 Start the Connect Daily service You should now be able to access the calendar via http localhost calendar 5 Optional If you want to have the calendar answer to http hostname without host
313. u can specity additional settings on your request pubdate 0 The pubdate element of the item entry will be the last update of the event The event start stop date will be placed in the event description entty If you specify pubdate 0 then the description will include the event start times for one time events or the recurrence description for recurring events 1 Default The pubdate element of the Item entry will be the event date time allow duplicates If this parameter is 1 then the RSS stream will come back with duplicate events The default behavior is to return each event only one time in the feed regardless of how many times it occurs during the period the feed is returning start Julian start date for events If this value is present then events from the start date forward are returned Number Maximum count of Item entries to return dayspan Number of days of events to return By default the RSS export will return the number of days specified in the System configuration screen Using this parameter you can increase or decrease the number of days that events are returned for If this parameter is 1 then all one time or specific dates events in the candidate set calendar resource etc will be returned This includes events that are in the past Recurring events other than specific dates will not be included in the output set This parameter is ignored if newest is specified Regardless of how many times an event
314. u should find some aspects of the application that are not compliant we will fix those elements at no charge Additionally we have validated the application s web pages using the W3C HTML Validator All pages validate as fully compliant HTML Web designers should be aware that some calendar views will be less helpful to disabled users than others Specifically the monthly calendar view will be difficult for a handicapped person to use The List view format offers the same event listing functionality in a format that would be more friendly to those Users In other words it is somewhat up to the web designer to use the product in a manner that is most friendly to the handicapped Similarly the List View by Resource should be made available since the Resource Planner View will not be useful Appendix C Importing Religious Holiday Calendars Connect Daily supports importing events in a variety of format If you are interested in Easter related Christian Holidays you can import those through the holiday import screen Refer to Import Holidays The following sections contain information on importing holidays from various religions Jewish Holidays Connect Daily has support for Jewish religious observances For information refer to the help topic Import Holidays If you need candle lighting times or support for additional years a good source is http www hebcal com To bring events from this site into Connect Daily follow the steps below
315. u to import data in CSV Comma Separated Value format CSV is a popular text format for exchanging data Using this Wizard you can bring data from other programs directly into your Connect Daily calendar Here are some important things to know about the CSV Import Wizard 90 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Only one time events can be imported Information about recurring events cannot be imported If you need to import recurrence information the iCal format should be used Ifyou import the file more than once the events will be duplicated each time you do so UNLESS you map the Item Globally Unique ID field Once you ve gone through the Wizard the first time Connect Daily will remember your settings so that you won t have to re create them each time To access this feature from the menu choose View Import CSV Import Wizard Step 1 Set the defaults for Imported Events Destination Calendar This is where calendar events should be added We recommend that the first time you try this you create a temporary calendar to test the data import Once you re sure things are working delete the temporaty calendar and all imported events Defaults Event Type If the source data file does not have an event type this is the event type that should be used Contact Name Contact Info Addl Info URL If the import file doesn t have this field mapped or if the values are not present use th
316. uctions section Virtual Host Mapping Sometimes a Connect Daily installation will have many calendars and you will want to limit what calendars are visible For example a city has a Parks Department with many calendars and also an Information Department with many calendars By default the calendar selection list will show all calendars the public can see The system administrator would like to limit the calendar list so that people coming from the Parks Department see one set of calendats while people coming from the Civic Information site will see a different set of calendars Connect Daily handles this need by letting you establish a relationship or mapping between a website name and a GUEST User People who are not logged in see the list of calendars controlled by the permissions of the GUEST User Creating these mappings gives you one set of GUEST calendars for one website and a different set of calendars for another website If you ate not sure how GUEST Users work in Connect Daily please read the help topic on Permissions for Anonymous Users on page 75 User Preferences on page 29 To configure Virtual Host Mapping perform these steps 1 Foreach virtual host on page 273 name you want to use e g calendar yourdomain com configure the DNS see DNS Domain Name Service on page 270 entries The host names must resolve to work You should do this by creating a CNAME entry that points to lt yourhostname gt mhsoftware com I
317. uence again This test plan is available in the cdaily 4 0 0 WEB INF misc MeterPlan directory Installation Overview Connect Daily has an automated downloader that will automatically install the software Run the downloader from our website After you complete this step you will have a working installation using Apache Derby for the data store To use a different database perform the SQL Database installation steps in SQL Database Installation see SQL Database Setup on page 201 To integrate Connect Daily into the Microsoft web server IIS follow the steps in Integrating Microsoft II S with Connect Daily Microsoft II S 6 with Connect Daily on page 214 Installation and configuration of Connect Daily will require a qualified system administrator for the target operating system The person installing the software should also be familiar with the SQL back end database as well as the Java Servlet application server End users typically will not be able to install and configure the software The basic steps for installation are 1 Unpack the application files 2 Configure the SQL database to hold the calendar data 3 Configure the application server to load the new web application 4 Restart the web application server 5 Configure Connect Daily options see Configuration on page 117 200 Bi Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading 6 Customize appearance by editing the style sheet a
318. uide and User Manual 4 0 0 Installation and Upgrading Tip You can add an entry to WEB INF configuration properties to prompt users on the correct name format EG UserID placeholder domain username This placeholder prompt will be displayed on the login form s user id field if the browser supports HTML 5 placeholder attributes Settings Reference ldap properties is a Java properties file The format of the file is PropertyName value Property names are case sensitive If value contains equal sign characters they should be escaped using If value contains characters they should be escaped as If an entry is present multiple times the last value in the file is used GuessDN If yes then the user s distinguished name will be guessed using the supplied user name and the values of PrefixUserWith and SuffixUserWith searchField LDAP attribute name to query the directory for Examples are SAMAccountName DN or userPrincipalName Refer to the section above on User Name Formats lookupDN lookupPassword The username and password used for the lookup account Required if GuessDN no This name needs to be qualified so it should be a DN For active directory it can be a userPrincipalName or domain username ServerName Name of the LDAP server You can specify either a host name or IP address If you specify a host name that host name must be resolvable from the server Connect Daily is installed on This can be a com
319. used 97 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Undo Many operations in Connect Daily can be undone That is Connect Daily supports an undo operation Areas that support undo include Import Holiday Import gt Bulk Exception Add If you ve performed an action that supports Undo and you want to undo it go to that screen At the bottom of the screen will be a block with undo information The date time the number of added records and the number of modified recotds will be displayed Click on the Undo button to reverse the changes you made eatlier If you ve performed that action more than one time you can undo each action sequentially in reverse order Say for example you ve run iCal import 3 times The first time brought in 10 records the second time brought in 20 new records and the third time brought in thirty new records When you go to the iCal import screen the Undo block will show 30 added records and the date time of the last import If you execute the Undo command then the undo block will show 20 Added records and the date time of the second to the last import If you again execute undo the undo block will show 10 added records and the date time of the first import If you again execute undo the undo block will not be displayed because there is no further undo information to act upon Limitations If you have permissions to edit the system configuration for your installation then the und
320. ut demonstration web site at http www mhsoftware com caldemo IFrameDemo html This page demonstrates each of the available calendar widgets and provides an HTML example page that you can copy and paste the code from Use your browset s show page source function and then copy and paste the HTML IFRAME tag into your web page The Web Site Integration Wizard can also be used to generate the HTML to include into the site For the Simple List and Detailed list you can edit the actual jsp pages that generate the output to customize the look If you ve done ASP or PHP scripting the concepts are identical For example you could include links to your own cascading style sheets If you re using the hosted version download the files using the File Transfer screen make the modification and upload them 182 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Web Site Integration Auto Sizing the IFRAME If you re including Connect Daily in a page using an IPRAME you may want to auto size the IFRAME so that the height of the IFRAME adjusts to the content These instructions assume you re using the hosted setvice If you re self hosting the software skip the steps for creating a virtual host name and remove the lines for document domain from the Javascript code Create a virtual host name in your domain For example if your web site is www yourdomain org and your calendar is yourdomain mhsoftware com create a CNAME entry for calendar yourdomain org
321. utorial shows how to cteate events with various kinds of http www mhsoft recurrence options ware com tutot als RecuttenceExcept ions MP4 see Tutorial MP4 Recurrence Exceptions http www mhsoft ware com tutot als RecurtenceExcept lions RecurrenceEx ceptions mp4 Shockwave This tutorial shows how to use Connect Daily for room and http www mhsoft equipment reservations ware com tutorials ResoutceManage ment MP4 see Tutorial MP4 Resource Management http www mbhsott ware com tutorials ResoutceManage ment ResourceMa nagementTutotial mp4 Shockwave This tutorial shows how to use the Connect Daily Sync program to 3 17 http www mhsoft bring events into an Outlook calendar or Palm OS PDA ware com tutorials SynchProgram ht m 16 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation WordPress Plugin Shockwave This tutorial shows how to use the Connect Daily WordPress http www mhsoft plugin to integrate Connect Daily into a WordPress based web site ware com tutorials WordPressCalend at MP4 http www mhsoft wate com tutotials WortdPressCalend at WordPressCalen dar mp4 17 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 19 Difference Between Connect Daily Versions Different features may be available depending upon the version of Connect Daily you have The table below shows the differences between the versions Please note the list of features is not complet
322. vailable for attachment now appear in a Search Results tab in the dialog Choose the appropriate Attachments for your calendar event by clicking the box in the Add column next to the name of the files or URLs After all the Attachments have been selected from the list click on the Add Files button gt Click on the Close button to return to the Edit Calendar Event window Add New File Add Existing File Add Existing File File Type Calendar Name Starts With Change Comments When you save an event a dialog appears that allows you to provide information to people who have requested notification when an event is changed or removed Enter your comments about the change in the Change Comments text box Click on Save to complete your edit Keep the following things in mind For changes the Notification message is not sent for 1 hour UNLESS the Nozify Immediately checkbox 1s selected For deletes the Notification is sent immediately 55 B6 Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation In order for this dialog to appear the user must have the preference Enable user comments when saving selected Change Comments Notify Immediately Save Cancel JAL BENE colections first single is currently No 1 on Bilboard s Dance Club Ple Approving Events Event Approvals are a way of assuring that events are approved by someone before they are displayed to the general pu
323. value is invalid or the User has no permissions to that Object then the software will attempt to locate an Object of the same type the User has View permissions to and display it If no criteria parameter is specified then the software will find the default calendar value for the User and display it If at this point nothing is still specified the page will display a blank calendar 192 Chapter 6 Installation and Upgrading In This Chapter Ttistallatioti echec e creer deer tere RE eere ii e rete 192 Buren 235 Installation Windows Users The Connect Daily Downloader will automatically download and install Connect Daily This downloader will install the software the servlet engine and configure the system to use the Apache Derby database Even if you will be using a different database we recommend you use the downloader to create a base installation See Also Common Installation Questions sec Installation Questions on page 252 193 Software Requirements There are two portions to Connect Daily The first is the portion that runs on a server The second is the client computer which just requires a supported browser The server pottion of Connect Daily requires four components They are Operating System Java SDK or JRE 1 6 or higher Tip If your web hosting computer does not meet the requirements for installing Connect Daily we also offer a hosted calendar solution see g
324. vent and left the status as deferred This message means the event has not been approved or rejected but the operator wants to send a message to the event creator or other approvers This message cannot be disabled 104 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Event Deleted Message An event was deleted and one of the following is true You are the creator of the event You are an approvet for the calendar in question and the user deleting the event has the permission Mail approvers when this user or group edits and event Your email address is used as the contact information for the event and the system wide setting Notify contacts on event edit or delete is set to yes Event Approval Denied Message This message will be sent if an approver denies an event that has been added to the calendar AND You are an approver for the calendar You can edit your Email preferences so that you only receive these messages when a specific instruction or comment is made To do this login to the calendar system and choose Edit Preferences and check the option Disable Empty Approval Messages Note that if the approver puts in some comments as part of the approval process you will ALWAYS receive this message You ate the creator of an event See the instructions above to disable this message Your Email address is used in the event s Contact Info If you have a calendar login you can disable this message u
325. vent descriptions to contain JavaScript Doing so may allow people to use your calendar to spread viruses or worms If you want to customize the create event screen copy the file WEB INF misc publicAdd jsp to the top level directory You can then edit that file to customize the appearance 186 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 187 Ajax Integration of Connect Daily This section will guide you through integrating Connect Daily into your website via Ajax on page 269 Using Ajax you can directly integrate calendar information into your web pages creating exciting interactive designs Please be aware that Ajax is a very advanced web developer topic You will need to be familiar with directly editing HTML in order to complete this process If desired MH Software Inc can perform this integration for you as a paid setvice For additional information contact MH Software Inc Adding the Ajax code to your web page To simplify Ajax integration into your web page we ve created an Ajax Script generator Go to this web page http www mhsoftware com ajaxgen Fill out the form and follow the instructions For reference you can also look at the example page at http www mhsoftware com caldemo AjaxDemo html When the page is visible in the browser right click on it and choose View Source Customizing the Ajax results The appearance of the mini calendar and the HTML that is generated are controlled by the CSS file MiniMonth
326. vent is owned by one of the selected set of usets User Groups Event is owned by a person who is a member of the selected set of user groups If any key words are specified each event will be checked to see if it contains them If no key words are specified then any event added will be a match if they match the set Notify Others If you have the permission to create Notification Requests for others you can add other Connect Daily Users and Groups to this request so that they will receive the Notification message as well Additional EMail Recipients If you have permission to notify others you can put in any EMail address you want to receive a copy of the notification Customizing EMail Templates If desired you can customize the message templates used by Connect Daily To do this 1 Copy the template you want to customize Templates are stored in the templates en directory Hosted users can use the File Transfer screen see File Transfer Utility on page 153 to download the files 2 Once you ve copied the file customize the message to say what you want The n elements are substitutions that Connect Daily will make The file ItemParams txt contains the meanings for the Item templates and the Notify txt file contains the meanings for the Notify templates 3 Rename the file to Fi eName custom 4 Upload or copy the new file to the templates en directory So say you want to customize the Item Add message template Copy or
327. via iCal or RSS feeds This option must be enabled in order to use Ajax integration If you enable this option Apple iPhone users can subscribe to your calendar Anonymous User Preferences persist between sessions If Edit Preferences is set to yes and this option is set to yes then permanent cookies are used to save guest preferences If this option is set to no then guest preferences will reset when the browser is closed Edit preferences If this option is set then users can set options to view stop times and resources and change the default time zone if time zone support is enabled Create or edit event reminders and notification requests If this option is selected then guest users will be able to create EMail Reminders and Notification Requests about new events Default Calendar View When a User is logged in and chooses View Calendar from the menu this is the default format of the calendar that will appear Examples would be month view day view week view etc Month View Calendar Format Refer to Differences in Month Views Connect Daily supports two different month view formats Bannerized View In this view if an event spans multiple days it s drawn as a single event box that overlays the days that it occurs on 34 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Other Differences This view truncates long event descriptions This makes the display more compact and allows the banner view
328. want the extra break set the Display to inline Experts Only If you want to tweak the settings beyond the capabilities provided you can use one of the supplied text boxes In the example below in the Font Family field type something like Tahoma Lucida other option your setting Manage Reminders Using this screen you can edit Notification Requests and Reminders for other users or start a Reminder message send To begin go to SECURITY MANAGE REMINDERS 136 HM Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Editing Notification Requests and Reminders for Other Users This screen lets you gt Edit Notification Requests or Reminders for a person gt Delete a guest user Email address signed up for Notifications or Reminders Note you can only delete the addresses for guest users If an Email address belongs to a regular Connect Daily EMail account you will not be able to delete it gt Adda person s address and create or edit a Notification Request If you have a lot of addresses in your system the system will break them out by the character the addresses start with So for example to edit the notifications for harry sample com you would click on the h in the character list over the addresses Manually Initiating a Reminder Message Run If your server was down during the time when EMail reminders of events should have been sent you can process them by clicking the process them now link in the Instr
329. ware com tutorials AddEditEvents General Fields Calendar The calendar the event should be created on Security for the calendar controls who can see the event Title The title of the event 48 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Item Style Selects the Item Style to control the appearance of this specific event See Jtem Style Setup on page 136 Approved Displays whether the event is approved or not If your system isn t configured to use approvals you won t see this field For information on Event Approval refer to Approving Items see Approving Events on page 56 Privacy Controls whether other people can see this event or if the event is displayed when it is included as part of other calendars gt None the event will appear normally when displayed and if the calendar is included within another it will display in it as well gt Don t Include means the event will not be displayed when the parent calendar is included as part of other calendars gt Included Show as Busy means that the event will be displayed as Parent Calendar Busy when included as part of other calendars Hidden means that only the creator or owner of the event can view and edit it gt Show as Busy means that for anyone besides the event owner the event will be displayed as Busy See Also How Events Ate Included On Calendars on page 144 Event Type Choose the event s type This can be used to p
330. ware com tutotials ResourceManagement gt Select the Resources required for your event by using the mover Mark the Resources you wish to use in the Available Resources box and then click on the gt button so that they are moved to the Selected Resources box You can mark multiple Items at a time by using a combination of shift and click ot control and click gt If your event requires setup and teardown time and you have multiple calendars you can create setup and teardown time periods for your Resources by clicking on the Create Setup and Teardown Event see Setup and Teardown Events on page 63 button that appears in the resources section gt Ifa conflict occurs you will not be able to add the Resource until the conflicting Event is removed or has an exception scheduled gt Resources pending approval will have the font style set to bold italic gt Ifa Resource has an assigned Approver the request is sent to the Approver gt Ifyou are an Approver for the Resource the Resource will automatically be marked as Approved 51 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation See Also Assigning Resources to an Event on page 60 Resource Conflicts are not being detected One of two things is happening 1 You have marked the Resource as shared This means that multiple events can use it without conflict To change this go to the EDIT RESOURCES screen and change the shared flag on the Resource that has th
331. way 76 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation gt Create user accounts for each sales person and a calendar for each person Each User should have only permissions to view their specific calendar Using the Manage Security Wizard on page 85 grant each sales manager Approve Use and View permissions for the calendars for their sales people Create a rollup calendar see Rollup Calendars on page 272 for each sales group and include the calendars for each sales person in the sales group in the rollup calendar Set the Display type for each included calendar to Calendar Title Grant each sales group manager permissions to view the sales group rollup calendar No person should have User permissions for any rollup calendar gt Create a corporate wide rollup calendar and include the calendars for each sales person into the calendar Set the Display type for each included calendar to Calendar Title gt Create the user accounts for the Sales director and the secretary Create a User group named CorporateHQ and add the Sales director and the secretary to that group gt Grant the group CorporateHQ View permissions for all calendars Grant the group User permissions to the individual calendars but not the rollup calendars Delete the Public User Name value from the SYSTEM CONFIGURATION SECURITY SCREEN and delete the GUEST user Delete the default Users group Permissions for Conne
332. y is UTF 8 UTF 8 is a variant of Unicode that encodes characters using a variable number of bytes For characters in English the characters would be 8 bits For characters in other languages the character would be encoded in 2 or 3 bytes Reference For most users UTF 8 is a good choice It gives the most compatibility for the broadest possible audience UTF 8 also allows mixing text on the same page in different languages In other words with UTF 8 it would be possible to display both Russian and German text on the same page Using an ISO 8859 xx series single byte character set would not permit this The only issue that may arise is that some older browsers may not display UTF 8 characters correctly If you need compatibility with these older browsers it will be necessary to add an entry to your configuration properties file to override the default character set The entry would appear as charset iso 8859 1 Set the character set to the appropriate value for your location You should also ensure that the content type header specified in any custom header files is appropriate to the character set you are using A sample content type header is shown below lt HEAD gt lt META http equiv Content Type content text html charset utf 8 gt lt LINK REL stylesheet HREF style css TYPE text css lt TITLE gt Connect Daily Web Calendaring System lt TITLE gt lt HEAD gt You should also make sure
333. y will verify that what the User put in is really a whole number and not text or a number with a decimal point Keep in mind that this validation only goes so far There s nothing that will stop Users from entering zero or a negative number 112 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Required If this value is set to Yes then the user will be forced to enter something in the Field to save the event Published If this value is set to Yes then the information entered will be visible to Users who are not logged into Connect Daily Option Values If you set the input type to Checkbox Group Radio Dropdown List or Select this is where you enter the options For example you want to capture the priority of an event You could set the form control type to Dropdown List and then enter options of Low Medium and High Options should each be entered on a separate line Custom Field Creation Wizard Field Set Caption Tab Caption Description Put your tab s purpose here Fields Order 1 Name Field1 Caption Field One Form Control Type Text Box v DataType Character M Required Yes v Published Yes Option Values radio select or dropdown Delete This Field Add a Field Save Changes Common Issues You may get an error like this java io FileNotFoundException http localhost 8080 calendar CustomFields dtd If this happens go to the SYSTEM CONFIGURATION SYSTEM screen and verify
334. yle Setup 30 34 47 76 131 136 162 253 J Java SDK or Java Runtime Environment 197 Java Servlet Container 198 Jewish Holidays 271 JMeter Test Plan Description 203 JNDI 206 Joomla Integration 170 JSON Export 65 70 189 L Language Support 267 LDAP 225 228 Idap properties Reference Guide 228 229 231 Index LDAP Active Directory Authentication 228 Letting Visitors Like or Tweet About Events 139 License Key Issues 258 License Key Request 123 270 License Upgrades 239 List View 37 Localizing Headers and Footers Instructions and EMail Templates 269 Localizing Screen Captions 268 Location 49 Locations 34 49 133 Logging Into Connect Daily 19 M Make Super User Screen 72 83 86 258 261 Manage Reminders 136 Manage Security Dialog 22 23 54 59 72 80 Manage Security Wizard 54 58 59 74 75 83 253 Message Explanations 103 Microsoft SOL Server 2005 2012 Configuration 209 Mini Calendar and Simple List of Events Widgets 174 Mobile Device FAQ 149 Mobile Device Tutorial 151 Mobile Operation 147 Month Week Day View 36 MySQL Installation 210 N Narrative Test Results 201 Notification and Reminders Password Reset Message 103 Notifications and Reminders 80 97 248 249 250 O Operating System Requirements Server 197 Options 27 Oracle 91 Application Server 215 Oracle Configuration 21
335. ype ID s to display viewer Connect Daily web page that should display the results For example ViewMonth html ViewPlanner html etc CUSTOM Custom fields will be prefixed with the letters cd So a custom field named Location FIELDS would be cdLocation Usage Report Connect Daily offers a very flexible usage report Some of the reports you can create using this screen are gt Resource Usage Calendar Usage gt Resource Usage by Calendar Event Owner etc To get started enter the start and end dates for the report Select the data value you want to appear in the Row Values dropdown Available choices are Calendars Resources Event Types Event Ownets Resource Types and Event Contacts 45 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Select the column heading you want If you don t select a column heading you get a simple list report as shown below Calendars Duration Hours Finally select what you want to show Available options include the duration of the events in hours the count of events and the count of other variables If you select a column heading you ll get a report that looks like this If your report includes resources and you have more than one resource on an event the results can be different than a report without resources For example 46 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 GrandTotal 21 Program Operation Count of Events Re
336. ystem it sends messages about resource requests and approvals You will receive this message if You created an event that uses a resource requiring approval OR You are an approver for the specified resource Disabling This Message Login to the calendar system From the menu select Edit Preferences Check the option Disable Event and Resource Approval Request Messages and save changes 109 B Installation Guide and User Manual 4 0 0 Program Operation Advanced Editing Features Bulk Exception Add Bulk Exception Add allows you add a seties or range of Exception Dates to a single calendar or set of calendars For example if your company closes the week following Christmas you can use this screen to add Exceptions to all recurring events that would happen during that week 1 Enter the dates to set the exceptions for in the Exception Dates box 2 Youcan enter a date range by entering the two dates separated by a hyphen 3 Select the calendars you wish to add the exceptions to 4 Select the types of events you want to add exceptions to Do not select holiday type events Doing so will schedule exceptions for those holidays causing them to not appear 5 Click on the Add Exceptions Button Please keep the following things in mind gt Only recurring events will have exceptions added One time and specific date events will not have exceptions added Exceptions will be added to the event if it would naturally

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