[pmwiki-users] Suggestions? Anonymous volunteers calendar
Tegan Dowling
tmdowling at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 11:03:56 CST 2008
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:24 AM, <sti at pooq.com> wrote:
>
> Tegan Dowling wrote:
> > Organization wants a calendar that volunteers can use to sign up for
> > available slots on the schedule. The calendar would display which
> > slots are taken, but not by whom. The mechanism for taking a slot
> > would somehow provide the volunteer's name, etc, to the organization
> > -- either by causing an email to be sent or by adding the information
> > to a record-store of some sort (page, database, other...).
> >
> > Any recipes out there that could be readily adapted? Maybe
> > incorporating other-party tools, such as a Google calendar or Woofoo
> > form?
> >
> > Some kind of anti-spam (captcha, e.g.) would be necessary, if I
> > somehow do this with PmWiki's native password-based authorization
> > system. Otherwise, I could set up AuthUser or UserAuth for this. I'd
> > rather not set up a MySQL database, but will if that's the only way to
> > go...
> >
> > Ideas?
> >
>
> I don't have any suggestions, except to say that my wife has asked for
> the exact same feature for her website. She wants her clients to be able
> to book time with her, and to let everyone know what time she has free
> for appointments, but to only let her see who booked the time and why.
I was thinking that maybe this could be adapted, by someone who knows
how, from something designed to let people reserve seats at
performances -- the number of remaining seats for each performance is
automatically reduced by each reservation, but the confidential
information associated with each reservation is either saved on a
read-protected page, or emailed to the scheduler.
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