{"id":130,"date":"2007-01-16T01:31:54","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T01:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozillacalendar2.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/16\/calendar_sneak_preview_part_1\/"},"modified":"2007-01-16T01:31:54","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T01:31:54","slug":"calendar_sneak_preview_part_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/2007\/01\/calendar_sneak_preview_part_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Calendar Sneak Preview Part 1 &#8211; The event dialog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you all know, the guys from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\">Sun<\/a> have been<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/calendar\/2006\/10\/sun_microsystems_announces_int.html\">supporting<br \/>\nthe Calendar Project<\/a> for some time now. Most of the stuff that they&#8217;ve been working on, has been work on the backend (e.g. the WCAP Provider) and general bug-fixing work.<\/p>\n<p>But they&#8217;ve also begun to work on the Lightning user interface and while their work has not been publically released just yet, we&#8217;d really like to give you a sneak preview of what is to come. We&#8217;ve decided to present you the new stuff in bits and pieces over the coming weeks and to concentrate on one element per blog post.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please be aware, that these new features have not been fully implemented yet and have also not undergone a complete code review by the Calendar developers. Therefore the features and screenshots described may be subject to change.<\/p>\n<p>We would also like you to give us and the Sun guys extensive feedback about what you think about these new UI features. Please use the comments section for this.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the first installment of this series, we&#8217;ll talk about the new advanced Event Dialog and its features. Here&#8217;s a screenshot of the new dialog.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babylonsounds.com\/calendar\/event1.png\" width=\"433\" height=\"490\" alt=\"Event Dialog Screenshot\"><\/p>\n<p>The design goal of the new event dialog were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A seamless integration into the Thunderbird UI. The user should not get the feeling that he is in a different application, when he is using the calendar part.<\/li>\n<li>Evolution and Outlook users should also feel at home<\/li>\n<li>The new dialog should be more powerful in terms of features, while still presenting a simple and lean UI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following new features were developed for the new dialog:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Integrated timezone support<\/li>\n<li>Integrated display of recurrence patterns, reminders and attendees<\/li>\n<li>Custom Recurrences<\/li>\n<li>Custom Reminders<\/li>\n<li>Clear separation between tasks and events<\/li>\n<li>Free\/ Busy support<\/li>\n<li>Show time as Free\/Busy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are two more screenshots of the event dialog with some more of the new features visible and of the new attendee dialog:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babylonsounds.com\/calendar\/event2.png\" width=\"433\" height=\"536\" alt=\"Event Dialog Screenshot 2\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babylonsounds.com\/calendar\/attendee-page.png\" width=\"783\" height=\"584\" alt=\"Attendee dialog Screenshot\"><\/p>\n<p>The new event dialog can be used with or without using the WCAP provider, but free\/busy-support is only available for WCAP calendars at the moment, because the other providers (e.g. ICS or CalDAV) have not implemented this feature yet.<\/p>\n<p>Further information regarding the attendee dialog is available at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Image:Enterprise-attendee-dlg.png\">http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Image:Enterprise-attendee-dlg.png<\/a> and<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Calendar:SMB_Event_Dialog_-_Invite_Attendee\">http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Calendar:SMB_Event_Dialog_-_Invite_Attendee<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you all know, the guys from Sun have been supporting the Calendar Project for some time now. 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