Ok Guys,
This is the thread where you get to ask for the features that you would like to see in the Event Calendar control. I'm going to release one, maybe two, updates to the free control before work on the commercial control begins. The next release will create a new user role, CalendarEventManager. Only Administrators, Managers, and members of this role will be able to add events to the calendar, which should work for everyone.
I'm looking for all types of features that you guys are interested in. Most of your suggestions will mostly be scheduled for the commercial control, but if there is something that I can add rather easily to the free version, I'll do it.
Take it easy,Bill
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I am interested in your commercial control. Do you have an estimated price tag for this yet?
A list view of the events that can be placed on a sidebar on the main page.
Thanks.
Hey Guys,
Sounds good. All of those abilities should be able to make it into the commercial version, which I will begin working on around the end of this month or the beginning of July. The pricing has not been set, but it will be something on the order of:
The release is planned for sometime around the end of the year as I won't be able to devote all that much time to its development for quite a while. It will have many Outlook functionalities and probably be rather similar to Google's Calendar, but fully integrated into Community Server. There will be many different ways to view the calendar and events. I'll be using the control on this and all my other sites as I develop it, so you'll be able to see what it does, how it works, and chime in if you have any comments.
Does the current version support date ranges ? If not, that would be a good addition.
Thanks
The free control does not, but the commercial control may is some form. How do you see this working? Remember, if it breaks the way that the calendar currently works, we may not be able to implement it.
The easiest way for the end user would obviously be [cal] 07/01/2007-07/04/2007[cal].
However, since the control strips the tags from the post it may be as simple as allowing the control read all the tags.
[cal]07/01/2007[/cal]
[cal]07/02/2007[/cal]
[cal]07/03/2007[/cal]
[cal]07/04/2007[/cal]
It would take longer to post but it's not that much longer. This could also work for recurring events.
Hey lousir,
The tags isn't the issue. I am more concerned on how you were invisioning what the calendar would display this. If you are happy with seeing the same subject on each day, the current control will do that. If you want something to span days, that is where it becomes a problem.
Thanks,Bill
Awesome, can't wait. Please post a message here or e-mail me when you get something live up and running so I can take a look.
Thanks!!
Personally, showing the same subject on each day is fine with me.
Also, I tried to have the event span several days but it only seems to pick up the first tag. I tried this (removed the "[" so your calendar does not pict up the tages):
cal]07/01/2007[/cal]
cal]07/02/2007[/cal]
cal]07/03/2007[/cal]
Is this incorrect ?
Thanks for this great module. We will be purchasing it when available. Assuming our site www.clinicalvillage.com does well enough and survives :)
Mike
Hey Mike,
There is a UNIQUE constraint on PostID field of the event table. If you remove this constraint, it will add all the events in your post. I may put something in the installation instructions about it in the next release.
Excellent. Thank you.
I just repackaged the current control to have this ability out of the box. If you already have the control installed, just copy all the files in the Web folder on top of what you currently have (they should be the same), run the InstallCalendar.sql script, and then the RebuildCalendarEvents.sql script. This will rebuild the tables and their contents, which will now allow for multiple events per post.
Here is another one for ya:
How about a list view of the calendar dates with an option of how many to show ?
We have a bunch of dates in the calendar but would like to show them in a list on the front page. The link would work the same as it does in the calendar. It could look something like this:
7/10/2007 Car Show
8/1/2007 - 8/5/2007 Boat Show
Sorry if I missed someone talking about this, but one thing you definately need is the ability to post reoccuring events.