Plugin new components in Schooltool

Writing plugins for schooltool is hard. But solving your problems is probably possible.

If I understand correctly - you want to allow students see schooltool in different languages? In that case you can just add different languages in schooltool.conf like this:

lang lt, en

this will add two "buttons" that allow selecting either Lithuanian or English language in schooltool.

Integrating timetable generation *into* schooltool is tricky too, but you can look at the sample data export, and find out how to generate a file that has your timetables, so you can use some program that generates timetables, export the timetable as csv or xml and use python, ruby or perl and convert it into a csv file that schooltool can import.

If you still want to write a plugin, you will have to learn Zope3, but to do that you have to know how to program already...

To enable language selector in SchoolTool installed with Synaptic Package Manager (or with apt-get):

Open console terminal, run command:

$ sudo gedit /etc/schooltool/schooltool-2009/main.conf

Add this line to the end of the file:

lang en, ru, vi

Save; then in terminal run following commands:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/schooltool-2009 stop
$ sudo /etc/init.d/schooltool-2009 start

This will add the three language choices in top right corner of the page (after you log in).

Also, if you specify only one language, for example:

lang vi

SchoolTool will always run in Vietnamese.