I haven't been able to find any Schema.org type that fits a sheet describing the properties of a course from a university.
The HTML (without any semantic markup using Schema.org) would look more or less like this:
<section>
<h2>Fact sheet</h2>
<p><strong>Formal qualifications:</strong> Bachelor’s Degree in Design</p>
<p><strong>Credits</strong>: 240 ECTS</p>
<p><strong>Duration</strong>: 4 academic years or 240 ECTS</p>
<p><strong>School period</strong>: from October to June</p>
<p><strong>Timetable</strong>: Morning Group: from Monday to Friday from 9am to 2.30pm. Evening Group: from Monday to Friday from 3:30 pm to 9.00 pm * The college reserves the right to modify schedules.</p>
<strong>Price</strong>: 112 €/ 1 ECTS
…
</section>
I thought about using Product, but it lacks lots of things.
Any ideas?
As this thread still appears on search engines, perhaps it's better to update that a Course schema was released lately:
http://schema.org/Course
Google is also endorsing it at this moment:
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/courses (So far I haven't seen rich snippets "live" though).
I have implemented this and I have to admit that it is not exhaustive and there is still work to be done to improve it. I noticed that Coursera.org is using properties that are not released yet, so I believe that more properties will be coming soon.
For your information!
I would look into the Event part of the schema.org:
An event happening at a certain time and location, such as a concert,
lecture, or festival. Ticketing information may be added via the
'offers' property. Repeated events may be structured as separate Event
objects.
http://schema.org/Event
That seems like it should cover something like a course. (lecture)
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I am currently trying to setup my own holiday iCalendar to which I can subscribe on, since I don't want to depend on 3rd party services.
I am currently trying to make the the VEVENTs for Christmas. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th advent, as well as the Christmas holidays are straight forward, however I have big issues to model the 1st advent.
Specifically, the problem is that the first advent can be in November and December (27th November to 3rd Devember)
How can I make a recurring event (or, more specifically, the RRULE) to cover all cases for the 1st advent?
What I've tried
My first idea was this:
FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYMONTH=11,12;BYMONTHDAY=27,28,29,30,1,2,3;BYDAY=SU
The idea was to just pick the one Sunday in between 27th November and 3rd December. This does of course not work because BYMONTH expands the search to all days in November and December, and BYMONTHDAY limits the search to those days in both months. I.e. November 1st, November 2nd, ... December 27th, December 28th, ..., which is of course not what I want.
Next, I tried to use BYYEARDAY=331,332,333,334,335,336,337 instead of BYMONTHDAY and BYMONTH, but unfortunately my webdav server (Nextcloud, which uses Sabre as far as I know. I got an error message "Invalid BYYEARDAY rule") does not support this.
My next idea was to use multiple RRULEs -- at least I did not see any passage in the RFC stating that only one RRULE is allowed at most. So I ended up with:
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=SU;BYMONTHDAY=27,28,29,30;BYMONTH=11
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=SU;BYMONTHDAY=1,2,3;BYMONTH=12
Didn't work as well. My last resort was to create two separate VEVENTs, one with the first RRULE above and one with the second RRULE above, but otherwise identical. This worked, but it left me confused.
Is there no better solution? How would you do it?
unfortunately my webdav server (Nextcloud, which uses Sabre as far as I know. I got an error message "Invalid BYYEARDAY rule") does not support this.
Well I think you should raise a bug report, because as far I can tell your solutions are correct and RFC-compliant.
I tried your solutions 2 and 3 with different libs (my own lib php-rrule, and rrule.js) and both options seems to work just fine.
FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=SU;BYYEARDAY=331,332,333,334,335,336,337
or combining 2
FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=SU;BYMONTHDAY=27,28,29,30;BYMONTH=11
FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=SU;BYMONTHDAY=1,2,3;BYMONTH=12
will both produce:
2018-12-02
2019-12-01
2020-11-29
2021-11-28
2022-11-27
2023-12-03
2024-12-01
2025-11-30
2026-11-29
2027-11-28
which according to Google and Wikipedia are the correct dates for the 1st Advent Sunday in the next 10 years.
Side note
at least I did not see any passage in the RFC stating that only one RRULE is allowed at most.
While not strictly forbidden, in RFC 5545 it's literally written everytime RRULE is mentioned:
;
; The following is OPTIONAL,
; but SHOULD NOT occur more than once.
;
rrule
Appendix A even states in the "New restrictions":
2. The "RRULE" property SHOULD NOT occur more than once in a
component.
That being said, multiple RRULE is a great feature, I don't know why they restricted it.
If I'm not mistaken, the first Advent is always the fifth last Sunday in a year. So the following rule should do the trick:
FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-5SU
See the next 10 results: http://recurrence-expansion-service.appspot.com/reaas?dtstart=20181202&rrule=FREQ%3DYEARLY%3BBYDAY%3D-5SU&max_instances=10
Or to put it another way:
FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=SU;BYSETPOS=-5
Here's a screenshot:
Here's a screenshot http://www.coletrumbo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/dateformat-1024x575.png
I'm trying to turn the current date into July 1st of the current year using DATEFORMAT(). I learned how to do that in MySQL from this question, and I hoped it would work similarly in Jaspersoft Studio- turns out date_format( curdate(), '%Y-07-01' ) doesn't translate into
DATEFORMAT( TODAY(), '%Y-07-01' ) or DATEFORMAT( TODAY(), YY/07/01 ). Neither worked.
I could keep trying to get creative and hopefully find something that works, but I'd rather actually understand how to use DATEFORMAT().
I checked the Jaspersoft Studio User Guide, but it's not there. From the prompts on the screen, it makes a lot of sense, but I just can't figure out the "format pattern" that I'm allowed to apply, or even how to correctly write any format pattern at all. Also, this conveniently named question, DateFormat Pattern, didn't actually help at all. And community.jaspersoft.com/answers is kind of a joke in my opinion. When I checked it a couple days ago, it was filled with spam linking to live hockey games.
Thanks in advance. I'm sure this is a beginner level question, so I feel dumb asking it, and I feel like I'm wasting other people's space and time with it because I should already know. So I really appreciate your willingness to care.
I am using the following to get the todays date in a danish format
"Dato: "+new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd MMMM yyyy",new
Locale("da", "DK")).format(new Date())
you can find the source code for the DateTime functions directly in JR repository: https://sourceforge.net/p/jasperreports/code/ci/master/tree/jasperreports/demo/samples/functions/src/net/sf/jasperreports/functions/standard/DateTimeFunctions.java
As you can see the code is fairly simple and relies on the Joda Time library.
Therefore the second parameter you are trying to enter is a String, while the first one is a Date object.
Indeed something that could work for you is an expression like this DATEFORMAT(TODAY(), "07-01-YYYY")
Regards,
Massimo.
I'm searching a plugin for displaying a tree-structure. The first level should be the category names and the second one the entries.
e.g.
- Australia 2012
-- Day 1 (arrival)
-- Day 2 (this and that)
- Kanada 2013
-- Day 1 (arrival)
-- Day 2 (departure)
etc.
where "Australia 2012" and "Kanada 2013" are categories and "Day X" are entries.
Is there a plugin or even a native feature for this purpose? I'm using Joomla 3.2.
there are two modules in the joomla core that might fit your purpose, but you most certainly have to override the layout of the module to make it display like you want to:
/modules/mod_articles_category
/modules/mod_articles_categories
To override the layout, look here or here (there are lots of tutorials for this).
regards Jonas
On Facebook, each comment or other user event has a timestamp. But it is not listed as a simple date, but presented in a form of a human-friendly string. For example if right now it is 08:38 and the comment was made at 08:31, Facebook doesn't just tell you the time, but says "7 minutes ago".
Is there an open source implementation of Facebook algorithm (or similar) that takes a data of event, a current date and tells in a human-friendly form how long has it been since?
Pretty date http://ejohn.org/projects/javascript-pretty-date/ is a good javascript library for this
You could dig into timeago jQuery plugin's source code to study.
What I think that should be the best is this :
Store the timestamp when the comment is made (eg- 3:45 12-10-2012)
Get the current system time
Get the differnce between the two .i.e (current time -comment time ) .
Most of the languages provide the datediff method . Like in PHP you can use it like this
I'm using textpattern and trying to display a list of upcoming events. I'm using article_custom.
<txp:article_custom
form="eventshome"
limit="4"
time="future"
sort="Posted
section="events" />
The issue I have is that this is supposed to show events coming up but using 'future' means that when an event is on the current date it's not showing (it's not future anymore). Both 'past' and 'future' time options seem to exclude the current date. That means people coming on the site don't see an event on that day which is a bit of an issue.
I've had a quick look around the code but can't seem to work out how to change the SQL statement so that future includes the current date.
Any help appreciated.
Its a bit oldie, but since i've just fixed the same issue, i thought i could provide my very simple soution to this matter.
What i did was simply set article date and time to its date and 25:59:59 time, so its visible all day on current day, but disappears immeadetly when day changes.
Since i didn't want to type those times always again and again, i run small javascript on article page which sets those automaticly to fields.
You can try plugin smd_calendar - http://stefdawson.com/sw/plugins/smd_calendar
it supports a lot of methods to display upcomming and past events.