[Kroupware] Re: Questions about Shared Resources & Concurrent Access

[Bo Thorsen]

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On Tuesday 20 May 2003 08:11, Andreas Gungl wrote:
> Am Montag, 19. Mai 2003 16:59 schrieb Bernhard Reiter:
> > At least on client has to work on "room1" to confirm the bookings.
> > For the KDE Kolab client there is already button that makes it
> > accept all invitations which are bookings in this particular case
> > if there are no conflicts. If you switch that feature off,
> > somebody (e.g. a secretary) has to confirm this manually.
>
> Hi,
>
> what do you mean by running on Kolab Client for the "room1"
> user/account? Usually persons run their own Kolab client for their own
> account. Should a secretary start another Kolab client (e.g. Kroupware
> KMail) on her machine under a different user name?
> Well, there are things like shell scripts, autostart folders etc., but
> I can't believe that running two clients on one person's machine is
> what you really recommend.
> Can you explain how the scenario should work in detail?

Add an account on the server for room1. You make a Disconnected IMAP 
account on your KMail that uses the room1 server account and check the 
"Account for semi-automatic resource handling" checkbox (note that you 
can have as many KMail accounts as you want). Set this to check for mail 
on some interval, like every five minutes. On the Groupware page, check 
the two checkboxes for automatic answering, unless you want manual 
intervention.

Now, when KMail receives a mail in the INBOX of the room1 account, it 
checks the availability of room1 - if the room is free or not. If it's 
free, it replies with an OK. If not, it declines.

The user who wants to book the room does this by sending an invitation to 
room1 in the timeframe he wants the room.

I can come up with several disadvantages to this way of doing it, but it 
was a very simple solution to do.

Bo.

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     Bo Thorsen                 |   Praestevejen 4
     Senior Software Engineer   |   5290 Marslev
     Klarälvdalens Datakonsult  |   Denmark
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