Extension 1: daily delta's and excursions

• Teacher absences

  • Covers for teacher absences

  • Excursions

  • 'publishRooms()'

1. liss.publishDailyDeltas

This is like 'publishDailyData()' except that it publishes just the delta's (i.e. additions and deletions) to the cyclical timetable.

Call:

liss.publishDailyDeltas(auth : authenticationObject, date1 : timestamp, date2 : timestamp, data : array)

Parameters:

auth : See section 3.3

date1 .. date2 : Any event or teacher absence overlapping one of these dates will be sent by the TS.

data: An array of rows, where each row represents one activity. The rows are defined as in "liss.publishDailyData" with these exceptions:

Returns:

Nothing - an empty string. If anything other than an error is returned it should be ignored. For error reporting see section 3.7.

2. liss.publishEventsAndAbsences

This call allows a TS to send data about excursions and other events and teacher absences to an SIS.

Call:

liss.publishEventsAndAbsences(auth : authenticationObject, date1 : timestamp, date2 : timestamp, data : array)

Parameters:

auth : See section 3.3

date1 .. date2 : Any event or teacher absence overlapping one of these dates will be sent by the TS.

data : An array of struct’s. Each struct is either an event or an absence, and you can distinguish between the two by seeing what fields appear. Events are defined as follows:

Absences are defines as follows:

Returns:

Nothing - an empty string. If anything other than an error is returned it should be ignored. For error reporting see section 3.7.