[LON-CAPA-users] automatic calendar dates

[James Sullivan]

Hi Guy,

>> If memory serves it seems that the calendar used to get populated
>> automatically with opening and closing dates, etc. for assignments
>> set with PARM. However, recent loncapa versions do not seem to have
>> this feature. Was this a feature that used to be available? 

>Yes, and it's dissapearence is a bug.
>lonannounce.pm 1.68 fixes it. Sorry about that.

Okay, thanks. Will it be in the next release?

>> On a related note, is it possible to edit the XML directly for the calendar?

> Nope. I'll assume you want to do this for batch announcement creation or somthing similar?

Yep. Is there another way to do that?

Thanks,
Jay