Do these stats include red-light cameras?

Sadly, I don’t have any silver-bullet solutions for your workflow. I can imagine solutions, but they rely on my limited knowledge of the requirements. I have a feeling that if I knew all the requirements I would find out that my ideas are insufficient.

I work at a university. We need a single calendar product that will manage multiple department-level security setups but work as a cohesive system:

• Need separate calendars for each department or organizational unit, each with two levels of access specific to that calendar. For example, the engineering school’s calendar may have a few of its staff as authors and others as approvers.
• All calendars use a single content type for all events.
• Someone from department A cannot modify department B’s events.
• Each separate calendar rolls up into a master calendar.

Working internally and with a good local consultancy, we couldn’t fathom a security model without unacceptable costs. No model got us out of one of more of:

• Extensive customization. This is a non-starter because it could require significant customization reimplementations even on minor upgrades. I don’t want to be customization-adverse, but I don’t want to implement something that gunks up upgrades.
• Byzantine complexity. If we avoided customization, we’re looking at a bizarre combination of modules, many of which we’re using not because of its core reason but because of incidental featrues. Organic groups came up a few times for this.
• Open, wiki-like security model. I like open security for other purposes, but we aren’t comfortable for it on content with first-order marketing needs.

It’s interesting to hear your thoughts on this. I’d love to get more feedback about the departmental model of security and what was wrong with the calendar (do you mean calendar.module or the release calendar that the security team follows (every Wednesday when there’s something to release). Are you referring to the security team’s efforts or just to the lack of fine grained permissions for your use case?

Thanks!

Thanks for the heads up on retirement of Quicken Online. I had no idea!