Heidi: You just made my day. I hadn't realized we could run that through
libcal. We have a couple calendars through them but have never used them. I
have the weekly javascript option (like Nick mentioned) running our Today's
Hours now and I'm so excited that I'll be able to set it and forget it for
the whole year (instead of changing every time there's a schedule deviation
- and then changing back.)
woohoo!
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Sarah Park <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Josh,
>
> A nice job. I like how you integrated the hours in your homepage, too.
> For people who did not see it: https://library.ucmo.edu/
>
> I helped a friend upgrading a hours calendar to API v3 from API v2 last
> night. The major difference between v2 and. v3 is the returned data is
> changed from Atom feed to JSon, in addition to the requirement of OAuth
> authorization. I added OAuth code (following the Google's example) first.
> Then, I changed a few lines and property names in the listEvents function
> to parse the data correctly.
>
> This is what I came up with. The source code is written in JavaScript.
> http://bit.ly/nwlivecalendar (see the libhours.js file in the source code)
>
> Sarah Park
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Joshua Welker
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 8:39 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Hours Fail
>
> I have a solution running that is compatible with API V3 but it is pretty
> specific to Ruby on Rails. The idea is to use Google's iCal interface
> rather than the API. iCal is going to stay the same no matter how many
> iterations the API goes through. You basically just need to find an iCal
> parsing library for whatever language you are using. The only problem is
> that Google does a bad job with exceptions to recurrence rules (rrules).
> Instead of editing a single event in a repeating series, you have to delete
> that event and re-add it as a separate event.
>
> https://gist.github.com/jswelker/04997f378d9bc02311d2
>
> In this example, I have a MySQL table listing several Google Calendars and
> the URL given for their iCal files in the calendar settings page. It loops
> through each calendar, fetches the iCal, parses it, and saves the resulting
> hours to a separate Events table. This might be more complicated than
> people are wanting.
>
> Josh Welker
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Heller, Margaret
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 4:51 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Hours Fail
>
> Wish I had checked the list this morning, as I just discovered we had the
> same problem. We have been using Andrew Darby's method outlined here:
> http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/46.
>
> Is there by any chance someone using this method who happened to know the
> V2 API was being deprecated who already updated their app to V3?
>
> If not anyone who wants to work on getting this to work tomorrow?
>
> Margaret Heller
> Digital Services Librarian
> Loyola University Chicago
> 773-508-2686
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Mary E. Hanlin
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 8:19 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Library Hours Fail
>
> Hi All,
>
> I know this has been covered a bit here, but I have a rather exigent
> conundrum, and I'm hoping to figure out the best/easiest solution.
> Yesterday, the script to hour library hours (on our front page) which
> pulls from Google calendar stopped working ("Error at line undefined in
> undefined[!]" - the exclamation point is mine; it seemed like it needed
> one.)
>
> Basically, the code came from a site that walked one through how to call
> daily hours (javascript) using Google's V2 API, but the V2 is fully
> deprecated (as I abruptly discovered), and I need to figure out another
> solution. (I haven't been able to find similar documentation for V3's API.)
>
> Some constraints: 1. Our IT will not support php. We are an .NET shop
> with IIS servers. 2. We may not have the dough to pay for something like
> LibCal which seems to me the easiest solution. 3. I'm semi-new to this
> "Internets/webmaster" thing, and really only know front-end coding, so a
> solution involving something like .NET, Python, etc. would have to have,
> "How to make a peanut butter sandwich," kind of documentation.
>
> Right now, I've just manually coded our hours, which is fine until
> Saturday when our hours change, and I'm not here (hopefully). I will be
> super grateful for insight or knowledge.
>
> Mary.
>
> Mary Hanlin
> Electronic Resources and Web Librarian
> J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College
> Phone:804.523.5323
> Email: [log in to unmask]
>
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