Holiday

[chrschaffer]

Hi forum,

I´m completely new to Scalix, but managed the installation and setup on Fedora just fine. Doing my first steps, I found almost everything I was looking for.

There´s just one question, I didn´t find any docu on: Is there a way to import public holidays into every Scalix user´s calendar?

Thanks for helping and best regards,
Chris

[Richard Hall]

Hi Chris,

There is no official way to do this. However I have achieved what you want to do by creating a dummy user and then using an Outlook profile for that user set up the public holidays (Tools/Options/Calendar Options/Add Holidays). Then archiving the Calendar of that user and importing those Calendar items into the Calendars of other users:

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omaddu -n "Holidays/<mailnode>"
<Create Outlook profile and set up holidays for Holidays user>
sxmboxlist -u Holidays     # to get the Calendar reference
sxmboxexp -u Holidays -a Holidays.data -f <Calendar-ref>    # Archive public holidays
omdelu -n Holidays

sxmboximp -a Holidays.data -u <User-1>
sxmboximp -a Holidays.data -u <User-2>
.
.

Make sure that the "Holidays" user is a newly created one - otherwise there may be other Calendar events present.

Hope that helps - Richard

[chrschaffer]

Hi Richard,

thanks for your reply. That´s brilliant - I´ll give it a go then!

Regards,
Chris

P.S.: Thanks especially for posting the code. That´s particularly helpful for a newbie like me.