1. District And Club database
New Calendar and Administrative Facility
DACdb – Peter Gallanis
DACdb User Group Meeting - Oct 2015

2. Overview Utilizes a new calendar framework for enhanced capabilities
New presentation of existing events
Event Categories can be fully customized by a district with the addition of colors for each category
Administrative services are implemented using the new admin screens
Integration of Google calendars within the district and club calendars

3. Calendar framework
Replaces existing calendar software which had become out of date and was difficult to extend
10,000+ lines of code maintained by a large group of developers to fix bugs and integrate enhancements (like Google calendars)
Extended by DACdb to customize the experience in a manner that allows for upgrades to new code releases
Utilizes the existing DACdb events already defined

4. Calendar – List mode Views Multi-day google event
Current Theme
District Event
(with links)
Multi-day google event
Multi-day google event (con’t)

5. Calendar - upcoming themes
Click on the theme to see a list of upcoming monthly themes

6. Calendar – Event mouseover
Event details on mouseover of the event

7. Calendar – event click

8. Calendar – google event click

9. Event clicks and mouseover functions as in list view mode
Calendar – month mode
Event clicks and mouseover functions as in list view mode

10. Calendar – week view

11. Calendar – day view

12. Administrative service
New graphical interface consistent with the DACdb GUI approach
Data is presented in sortable columns which may be sorted correctly by text, numbers and event check marks
Page sizes are set dynamically to adjust to screen sizes for large screens
Direct navigation to the first, last, next and a specific page number
Search field can find data from all columns in the table without having to return to the server (local copy)

13. Admin – interface Functions Screen size Sort buttons Search table
Navigation

14. Admin – event category All columns may be customized
All event categories are unique to a district

15. Admin – category edit

16. Admin – event coloring

17. Admin – category color display

18. Google - requirements You must have a google account
You need to obtain a google developer API key for calendars
1,000,000 request limit/day
5 request limit/second
You may only use public calendars
Share your own district/club calendar as public
Use existing Google calendars such as holidays
Google calendars are integrated with DACdb using a new administrative feature

19. Google calendar options
Google – admin options
Google calendar options

20. Google – calendar list

21. Google – add calendar
NOTE

22. Google – edit calendars

23. Status
Will be deployed after the conference as a special menu (extending the existing NC menu item) for feedback
Plans to integrate Google calendars are event categories so that they may be further customized

24. Thank
You