Calendar Publishing Host

Have a site that is looking into calendar publishing host and I am working to see if this is a viable option. Haven't done allot with the product myself so looking to see if this possibly might work. It appears this product will publish calendars so that external users can see the internal GroupWise users calendars. This site has a large mac contingent and they still have to use the gw8.0.2 client on them. The main issue deals with the option to view mutil calendar view, which is something you can't do in the mac GW client. They need a way they can view mutli calendars for scheduling and all. Wanted to see if the calendar publishing agent would be a viable option to deal with current issue. The capability I don't believe is in the webaccess agent as well to view multi calendars.

jlewter wrote:
> Wanted to see if the calendar publishing agent would be a viable option to
> deal with current issue. The capability I don't believe is in the webaccess
> agent as well to view multi calendars.
Multi-user calendars are "defined" by the users themselves, so there isn't a
"multi-user" calendar per se in calendar publisher. However, you could be
creative :-)
If you use calendar publisher, you could define a folder in the GW 8 client as
"panels". Then you could put different calendars from the web publisher into
the panels. You can actually accomplish this without calendar publisher by
making a new panel for each Groupwise calendar that the user has access to, but
calendar publisher might "look" better in the panels.
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On 3/1/2011 2:06 PM, pbijnen wrote:
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> The calendar publishing host sort on owner name not on (sub)agendas.
> Is there an option to change this behavior so the list first sort on
> owner then on agenda name?
> Is there a way to add an search option to the web page?
> Has someone modified the default templates and add these basic
> functions?
>
> Thank in advance
>
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Originally Posted by MarkDissington
Well looking at those versions, you seem to have a mix of 8.0.2 and 8.0.3 builds installed. My first port of call would be to get them all up to the same version and see if that resolves the issue.
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In our organization, we wanted to see if it's possible to publish a Multi-User calendar.
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Stevo

Originally Posted by Stevo
kjhurni sounds like they 'said':
> One calpub can handle multiple POA's
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Stevo
From the docs:
Novell Documentation
(start with the: Enabling Calendar Publishing section)
Then go to the :
Configuring a POA for Calendar Publishing
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In ConsoleOne, browse to and select the post office where calendar publishing is enabled, right-click the POA object for the post office, then click Properties.
Click GroupWise > Agent Settings.
Select Enable Calendar Publishing.
Adjust the number in the Max Calendar Publishing Threads field as needed.
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Click OK to save the calendar publishing configuration settings.
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To determine which POAs have been enabled for calendar publishing, see "Viewing Calendar Publishing Status at the POA Web Console" in "Calendar Publishing Host" in the GroupWise 2012 Administration Guide.

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15:28:00, <GWCAL>, -, INFO, -, Sending request to POA:
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Hi,
Had the same problem today.
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Regards
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Originally Posted by fribert
We got the Calendar Publishing working, and it's a treat, very nice integration to our Intranet, teaming etc.
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15:28:00, <GWCAL>, -, INFO, -, Sending request to POA:
GET /calendar/a2VmQHBpaGwtYXMuZGs_Y249NEI4RTY5MTUuJCQkLiQkJC4xMD AuMTI0MjQyNC4xLjIxNTIuMQ= HTTP/1.1
Host: gw4.as.dk
User-Agent: com.novell.gw.calhost.PoaConnection
X-GW-CalHost-Id: THluZ2J5
15:28:00, <GWCAL>, -, INFO, -, POA Response:
Location: http://gw8.as.dk:7171/calendar/a2VmQ...4xLjIxNTIuMQ==
<html><head><title>Moved</title></head><body>Requested resource has moved</body></html>
HTTP/1.1 500
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:28:00 GMT
Server: Linux GroupWise POA 8.0.1
Content-Type: text/html
Pragma: no-cache
15:28:00, <GWCAL>, -, INFO, -, Requesting data from POA. Userid: KEF, Calendar: Rejser, Status: 301
So first of, it connects to PO4 without problems, then PO8 where it finds the user (correctly), and then it gives an error when trying to access the calendar.
The calendar has been 'unpublished'/'republished' but the URL doesn't change.
I can create a new calendar, and move the appointments there, and then it works, but it's not a solution of course :-)

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Empty PostOffice Calendar publisher bug

I have no reasonable way of reporting this to Novell, so I'm simply
posting this here in case anyone else comes across this problem. It's
been so long since I've ran into this I forgot all about how to work
around it, so hopefully this posting comes up for me the next time I
forget the problem and go searching for a fix. I've noticed this problem
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Mike wrote:
> It's
> been so long since I've ran into this I forgot all about how to work around
> it, so hopefully this posting comes up for me the next time I forget the
> problem and go searching for a fix.
Very clever idea Mike. I will admit that I've occasionally gone to search for
something to fix a problem and found another thread where I posted an answer to
help solve the same problem for another user - heehee.
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