Nov 12, 2012 2:15 pm66 views
As a courtesy, Web Services provides calendar XML data that can be consumed by IT departments on campus. This data is not intended to be used as an on request web database. Rather this data should be queried and then stored in a local IT database for day to day use.
Web Services experienced extreme abuse by web XML queries today resulting in services loss. Web Services will put together over the next few days a policy regarding the proper use of XML data. We have turned the XML processing back on but if we find that its use is resulting in service loss we will be forced to remove access.
As a reminder we provide JavaScript include for the Calendar tool. These JavaScript includes can be added to any HTML page, portal, or CMS. We are more than happy to create new JavaScript includes if the ones we have do not meet your needs. The includes provided by the Calendar are updated the moment a manager changes data within their calendar. The reason we are mentioning this is because we are concerned that a great many of these XML queries are for the on the fly generating of JavaScript includes. These include could be replaced with static includes generated and managed by the Calendar tool. As a result this would not have a detrimental impact to our services and the rest of campus.