Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Calendar module fetchInterval
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@bhepler I’m the same oppinion as you are, probably didn’t explain it well. I can’t see a point why you would care to fetch less frequent than a day.
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@strawberry-3.141 Aha! Yeah, I misunderstood. “less than a day” = “less frequently than at least once per day”, as opposed to my interpretation. My interpretation was “a frequency interval of less than one day”.
Interesting question: Does the calculation that writes out the “xx days” string only occur on the fetch? For example, if I have an event in four days and I don’t perform a fetch for a week, will it correctly change the text to read “day after tomorrow” at the appropriate time?
If I were only showing holidays on my calendar then such a thing might make sense. How often do holidays change, right?
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@Anhalter42 Definately, and excellent point about not changing the existing option name. I’m hoping to implement a (swimming) pool module in the next couple of months. I haven’t coded (VB) in over a decade so i am reading up about Github (great concept btw). Not sure if i need to branch or pull request or what just yet. I think i can handle learning JS and use the existing modules to reference. This will be a great exercise for me before i jump into full coding.
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@cohron Just in case this helps you:
If you want to change something / contribute to an existing project you have to fork it, change what you want to change and create a Pull-Request (which then gets reviewed and accepted/rejected).
For developing your own module you just need to create a new project, i think. In case you didn’t see it, there is a handy template module you could use as base. -
@Anhalter42 I spend some time going through the calendar module code, i can read it fairly well, for the syntax i dont understand there is always google. After review, I see why there are no separate fetchInterval’s for each calendar. Each calendar’s events are added to an array, then sorted together also the dom (html table) is created from scratch on each interval. Without a tremendous restructuring of code, setting up separate interval timers, persisting the ical events array, etc. the value to adding this is limited.
Your comments help me immensely, thank you. I reviewed the template module, i’l start playing with that and do a Hello World module exercise when i return home at the end of the month.
