Workday Calendar Tool

Welcome to the Workday Calendar Tool! This program is designed to improve your experience with UBC's new Workday system by making it more intuitive and user-friendly.

Download

Download the latest version from the Chrome Web Store here.

It can also be manually installed on Firefox from the latest GitHub Release.

Alternatively, to download the latest version, check out our Discord channel #download-versions.

Community

Join our community and make the most out of the Workday Calendar Tool! Join the discord channel here.

How To Use

1. On the Find Course Selections page on workday, buttons should appear on the left hand side.
2. Click these buttons to add a course to the extension's calendar
3. A preview of where the course will fit in your schedule should appear in the extension's calendar
4. Click either Confirm or Cancel to do the respective actions
5. Different worklists and terms can be viewed using the top bar
6. Calendars can be exported and imported to/from JSON by going to Settings and then Export/Import
7. Calendars can also be exported to .ics for Google and Apple calendats using Export to External Calendar

Feature Requests

We value your input! If you have any feature requests, please create an issue. Before doing so, kindly check to ensure there are no duplicates.

Collaborators

We welcome new collaborators! To set up the development environment, follow the instructions in the following sections.

Building from source

You will need a reasonably recent version of Node, as well as Yarn. Note that we use Yarn Classic (latest 1.x) - please do not use Yarn Modern.

1. Clone the repo

   git clone git@github.com:mlool/workday-calendar-extension.git

2. Navigate to the root directory and install dependencies:

   yarn install

3. Follow the browser-specific instructions below

For Chrome

3. Build the project using one of the following commands:

   yarn run build-chrome
   yarn run dev-chrome # watches for file changes and rebuilds accordingly

4. Go to chrome://extensions/
5. Change Chrome to Developer mode on the top right
6. Click load unpacked to the top left
7. Select the public folder
8. The tool should now appear in your extension menu in Chrome

For Firefox

3. Build the project using one of the following commands:

   yarn run build-firefox
   yarn run dev-firefox # watches for file changes and rebuilds accordingly

4. Open Firefox and go to about:debugging
5. Select This Firefox in the top left
6. Select Load Temporary Add-on
7. Upload public/manifest.json
8. The tool should now appear in your extension menu in Firefox

See this Firefox installation demo.