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Wcal 2.8 documentation
Creating calendars
A new Calendar is created by adding the calendar definition in the wcal.conf file. For example, the sample wcal.conf file that comes with Wcal distribution contains the definition of three calendars:- commercial
- production
- savignon
user=commercial
long name = Commercial
end user
user=production
long name = Production
end user
user=savignon
long name = Joël Savignon
end user
Creating multiple views on the same calendar
Imagin you want to allow a user john to access to a calendar cal1 in read/write mode and allow another user jack to access to this calendar only in read only mode, you can write in the wcal.conf file:
user=cal1
long name = Calendar RW
end user
user=cal1ro
read only = true
data id = cal1
long name = Calendar RO
end user
data id = cal1 means that the data of cal1ro
is the data of cal1.
The calendar cal1ro is
the same as cal1 except that you can't modify events in it.
This calendar will appear with a small 
icon.
Restricting access to calendars
Now that we have a read/write and a read only version of the calendar, we can change the .htaccess file in the calendars directories to restrict access to certain users.The file /home/httpd/html/wcal/cal1/.htaccess can be for example:
AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/conf/htpasswd.users AuthName "Calendar RW" Require johnAnd the file /home/httpd/html/wcal/cal1ro/.htaccess can be for example:
AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/conf/htpasswd.users AuthName "Calendar RO" Require jackLogin/password will be prompt when accessing to the different calendars. For more information about Apache access restriction, see the Apache documentation on the Apache web site.
Important : don't create manually the .htaccess files in the web directories but use the access file resource in the wcal.conf file. .htaccess files will be generated from the value of this resource.
Creating groups of users
You can create groups of users for display purpose or to restrict access to a set of calendars. Groups will apear at the top of the main page with a small
icon. If you click on this icon, you can access to the group main page.
Groups can contain users but also other groups (subgroups). So you can have a complete users tree and you can use the data id resource to create links between them.
Groups are defined with the group resource. This is an example of a users tree definition.
group=group1
long name = Group 1
group=group11
long name = Group 1.1
user=us111
long name = User 1.1.1
end user
user=us112
long name = User 1.1.1
data id = us22
end user
end group
user=us11
long name = User 1.1
end user
user=us12
long name = User 1.2
end user
end group
group=group2
long name = Group 2
user=us21
long name = User 2.1
end user
user=us22
long name = User 2.2
end user
end group
You can restrict access to some groups by adding a access file resource in the group section.
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