Calendar Events [library support]

[ponzinomics]

much cleaner, yes. Does not look to need trailing 0's

Thanks

[Wormopolis]

that should be href="/calendar"

[ponzinomics]

Hi, I have been using the calendar plugin and is quite good. It definitively fits for purpose and, for the moment, is more than enough. However, I see 2 enhancements, that are not urgent nor really required, but definitively would improve usability:

* would be difficult adding time to the calendar? It would include the input/update form and the output listing ordering by time as well.

* would be possible pointing, from the event, not just to a thread, but to an specific post in a thread?

Is possible to add this to the wish list?

Thanks

[Wormopolis]

I think those can be done.

[ponzinomics]

When you have a while, not in a hurry, would be very much appreciated. I think would enhance a lot my calendar and I would grab users just because it if I manage to keep it up to date (I will). But I have not hit the market yet so there is time....

Thanks Wormo

[BeckyLu]

Hi -

Is there a way you could add some code to the calendar events plugin, to put reoccurring events on the calendar - for example to be every (other, 3rd, 4th, or 5th) (Monday - Sunday day of the week)?   

As it is now, putting in the span of days does not keep events like this on track.

Thank you Wormopolis!!

[Wormopolis]

span of days isnt for reoccurance. its for literally spanning days across the calendar.

variable re-occurance is going to be a small pain in my butt to code out...

[ponzinomics]

Aug 31, 2014 16:44:39 GMT -8 BeckyLu said:

Hi -

Is there a way you could add some code to the calendar events plugin, to put reoccurring events on the calendar - for example to be every (other, 3rd, 4th, or 5th) (Monday - Sunday day of the week)?   

Current reocurrence looks to be set always to 1 year. I thought the same about creating finer tuning but I guess can be a pain to implement and maintain and I thought better saving Wormo effort for more important and easy things.

Regarding reocurrence, I was thinking also about the possibility of importing a calendar text file with the description of all events in some format.... Maybe it could fit your use case.... Just guessing

[Wormopolis]

you cant import files with javascript

[ponzinomics]

I was planning to base my forum on the calendar and thinking in having in the front page an snapshot of today's remaining events, from current time to the end of the day, ordered by date. I think people would just come to see what is remaining for today and to learn more in the associated thread. Would this be a different plugin? Maybe something related is already available....

[Wormopolis]

plugins are based off javascript, and as I said, javascript cannot import in external files.

Like the advent calendar, I can probably make an option to write a calendar into any element that calls for one

[Wormopolis]

Im still working on getting an optional post id and optional time in there. although Im stuck on exactly how its supposed to display time. especially if its a spanning event.

[ponzinomics]

Display just as 24 hours format is not it: HH:mm. Can be extended later if someone else needs more detail. Maybe you can convert the db record from date to datetime or maybe you are ignoring the time already.

Layout something as:

ALL               Event name1:description         ThreadName pointing to PostId

08:00             Event name2:description         ThreadName pointing to PostId
09:30             Event name3:description         ThreadName pointing to PostId
14:30             Event name4:description         ThreadName pointing to PostId
For the first event, running 24 hours, if you see any difficulty, just ignore this use case and I will set 00:00.

I will not use probably spanning records, I guess.... As it is complex to properly define the span options I think I will fill them in as individual records. Also, I do not know enough the span periods on my domain so will not use reocurrence I think.

This would be really great. 

[Wormopolis]

individual records take up more space then spanning does.

[ponzinomics]

well, yes, obviously if I can find the re-ocurrency period in my events and the re-ocurrency functionality is technically available I would use it, no doubt. Less space and far easier to configure. (In my case the space saving is just the event database record because I will make all the re-ocurrent events point to the same thread anyway even if they are individual events).