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What's New in Bedework 3.8
1. What's new in Bedework
3.8?
Barry Leibson
Girasole Solutions
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Gary Schwartz
RPI
June 10-15, 2012
Growing Community;
Growing Possibilities
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5-Minute Bedework a la Father Guido
Sarducci*
Standards-compliant enterprise-ready calendar
server
Personal calendaring sorta like Google Calendar
Public events calendaring
Many ways to get events into it and out of it
Installed into varied envionments; often found at
colleges/universities
Downloadable quickstart (only requires Java)
Deployment involves swapping in db & ds, defining
cats, cals, and peeps, skinning web clients
*see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO8x8eoU3L4
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Salient Changes 3.7 →
3.8
Public client: calendar explorer
Public client: upcoming events tab
New lightweight theme
Public events administration: image
uploads
New external subscription sync engine
More urlbuilder widget-builder options
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Less Salient Changes
Packaging changes, including new Java-
based
DB in quickstart
Server option to boost performance with solr
Web services: SOAP namespace now
conforms
to OASIS naming conventions
Many bug fixes and small improvements
A few new bugs
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In summary, some good
stuff
Worth upgrading from 3.7?
Yes, if you plan to do use external
subscriptions
Yes, if you'd like to store images in
Bedework
Yes, if you're interested in any of the new
web client functionality
If building a new site, 3.7 or 3.8? Probably
3.8.
More bug fixes and more functionality,
although docs are behind.
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Public Client's Calendar
Explorer
In prior releases, left-hand column used
views,
calendar aggregations
In 3.8, choice of views or calendar explorer:
theme option
Calendar explorer easier to set up and
maintain
What about multi-select or faceted search?
Coming!
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Public Client's Upcoming
Tab
Bedework evolves: from grid to flattened grid
to “what's happening?”
Upoming shows events from today forward
(as you'd expect). Number of days set in
admin client.
Upcoming supports thumbs
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Public Client a la Frank
Stella
BedeworkWhite: an alternative to standard
Bedework theme
Simpler, and in many cases, easier to adapt
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Public Events Admin: Image
Uploads
Bedework will now store images
Upload interface similar to CMS/Blogging
systems
Creates thumbnails
Upload size limit can be set in Admin client
Early days: no image management yet
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External Subscription Sync
Engine
External subscriptions involve building
calendar from iCalendar (ics) file
Revamped in 3.8
In prior version, Bedework recreated calendar
every time. (often) expensive.
In 3.8, synchronizes based on event ID.
(usually) cheap.
Issue: some ics file producers don't preserve
event ID's when exporting file.
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New Urlbuilder Widget
Options
Limit list to n events
Display Description inline
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Packaging Changes
Quickstart DB was Derby, now Hypersonic
Source code reorganization; now many
separate projects.
Use ./bw -updateall to keep up to date
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3.8: Ain't Done Yet
Paged results in the public client coming soon
Consolidation of some of the changes
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Beyond 3.8: What's being
considered
Exchange Connector
Jboss 5 replacement
Move more into admin client.
Less hand-editing config files.
Multi-faceted search in the public client
Room reservation system plugin
Multi-language support at the content level
A notification system
Replacement of the Ruby webcache
with Java-based caching
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Need more Bedework?
“The Many Faces (or Facets) of Bedework”
Tomorrow (Tue) 6/12 at 1:15 PM
Conference Center Rm 4 (7th Floor)
We will present scenario-based examples
of deploying Bedework beyond its traditional
roles.
This session is not a "how-to-do-it" session
for developers, but a "what can be done" and
"what has been done" session for IT
support staff and management, and end
users alike.
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Scheduling Assistant
Wednesday, 9:30
Conference Center 3 (Next door)
Nick Blair, U of Wisconsin
