University Calendar
Mike is in charge of a University's Web site. The University web is actually composed
of over 100 separate web sites for each of the various schools across the University.
Before Calendar Central
Every school within the University has a web site. Within each site there are webmasters
that spend most of their time trying to keep everything up to date.
The calendars are particularly hard to keep up to date because the information is so
volatile. The only one who can update the calendar is the part-time webmaster. Because the webmaster hand codes
the calendar in HTML, it's usually just a long list of events. Viewers going to the site have to wade through a
large number of events to find the one or two they are interested in.
After Calendar Central
With Calendar Central, each of the schools can assign event organizers from various organizations
to be publishers for their group. Each organizer is authorized to enter events, but only for their group. When
they enter events into Calendar Central, the events are immediately available to anyone visiting the web site.
No HTML coding! No webmaster needed!
Even though there is one central calendar, each school and each organization can link
to a "view" of the calendar that pulls up only their events by default. This means each school can put
their own view of the calendar on their site. Visitors going to these sites can easily select to see more events
from other schools or groups.
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