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12/13/2007 3:17 PM
 

Hello - just upgraded from DNN 3.1.1 and am looking for documentation to set up the event module - my 3.1.1 site listed events in a list view as oppoed to a calendar.  When I hover over the help icon it says something about needing two instances of the module - I need more detail...  I also use the event module in different places on my site - all list view.  Will I need two instances for each page events module is placed on?

 
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12/14/2007 8:24 AM
 

If you want to show the same events twice, but in different views, e. g. as monthly calendar on one page, and as list on another, you will indeed need two module instances - one as master calendar, where all the events are added and edited, and another instance as subcalendar, that displays the master calendar's events. To use a module instance as subcalendar, go to the SubCalendars section in the module settings, and select one (or more) of the other Events modules from the dropdown list.

Hope that helps!

 
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12/14/2007 10:17 AM
 

Yes - it does.  I actually found the documentation and was trying to work my way through it.  I have different event categories, and I want them to all be displayed as a list - I personally do not like the calendar view.  From your post it sounds like I'll need two instances of the module to display events for each category in list view.  I guess you just hide the view you don't want users to see.  I like the idea of a master calendar, but in my case, it is just creating more work and overhead, as I will have to have many sets of event modules.  It would be nice to enter all the events in a master calendar hidden on a page, then set up sub calendars in list view on other pages, selecting the event category to be displayed.  Either that or add date and time fields in the annoncement module.  Things were much simpler in 3.1.1 - list view or calendar view, and the events would display in date order, and I did not have to specify and end date and time - its a nice addition, but why is it required?.  I appreciate the work done on this module, but it's a bit over complicated.  I'm new to this version, and I've ordered the book, so if I'm in the weeds on this, and there is a way to do what I want, let me know.

 
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12/14/2007 1:30 PM
 

Unfortunately, there is a bug in the current Events module (version 3.3.8), that makes it impossible to use it the way you want: if you enable the category select box (in the module settings) to be displayed in the module, AND set the list view as default or only view, the module will show an error message instead of an event list! I don't know when this bug will be fixed, as there currently doesn't seem to exist a module project team. There was a bugfix posted by a user ("Events Module 03.03.08 Beta"), but exactly this thread cannot be opened at the moment due to a bug in the Forum module! (sigh)

But even if there wasn't this bug in the Events module, it wouldn't help, because I noticed that my above description of master and subcalendars was misleading (sorry for that!). Actually master and subcalendars are independent instances with their own events, but a master calendar also displays all events of those subcalendars that are assigned to it. The way you need it - distributing certain events from the master to various subs - is not possible. Trying to visualize the directions that the events go, it's not   Sub < Master > Sub   (read the angle brackets as arrows), but   Sub > Master < Sub

 Also, the categories of the events to be displayed can only be selected by the users, but not preselected by the portal admin.

I don't know which Events module version there was in DNN 3.1.1, but if it was 3.2.0, you can still downlad that version from the downlad page and replace your current module version.

 
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12/14/2007 2:16 PM
 

My current version is 3.03.08 - whatever version it was in 3.1.1, it isn't compatible as none of my event data was populated after upgrade.  It seems that I might have been wrong about something here - I have been reading that 2 instances of the module were required in order to display the events as a list.  Is this still true?  I see the category select dropdown when adding events, but I don't see a way to add categories.  If I don't have to add 2 instanmces of the module to display as a list, I can live with the other bug, but I can use the subcalendar feature instead of buying a third party module do display the next 3 events on another page.  I'd also like to display past events in my list instead of them falling off as time goes on.  Is it possible to dio this?  Perhaps a negative number in the number of events to display?

 
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