Events Release 05.01.00 beta available!

The Events team is proud to announce a beta version of the next release of the Events module: Events 05.01.00. This version has more than 70 issues related to bugs fixes, enhancements and new features. A blog describing some of the things we have changed can be found at this link.

Where can you download Events 05.01.00 beta?

The beta of DNN Events 05.01.00 can be downlaoded from the Events project's page on CodePlex. The complete release notes of this version can be downloaded from there as well, but they are listed at the end of this posting as well.

What can you do?

Download the Events module and try it in a test environment. You can upgrade any existing Events module installation with this version. Or uninstall a previous version and start with a clean DNN site and install this beta version on that site. If you find any issues, go to the Events forum here and post your findings, so the Events team and others can benefit from your experiences. We are all volunteers!

What will be next?

The Events project team will follow up any issues that pops up in this beta from your testing. So please make note of your experiences in the Events forum. There are some small enhancements we will provide on the module over the next week or so. If you follow the Events issue page in CodePlex, you will be the first one to get informed.

Also, since CodePlex is a wonderful place to distribute software for DNN modules, including a Beta and Release Candidates of Events, we will close down our special website (www.DNNEvents.net) that we used to distribute Event Beta's and RC's up until now. It served its purpose, but CodePlex is a better solution.

CodePlex can also provide you with an e-mail notification on new releases, so this DNN Events Newsflash will be the last from www.DNNEvents.net!

Release notes DNN Events 05.01.00

Events 05.01.00 will work for any DNN version 5.2.0 and up. Full details on the changes can be found on http://dnnevents.codeplex.com/WorkIte....

BUG FIXES

• Add support for negative permission setting in DNN 5
• Improved XHTML Compliancy
• Notification email "from" address not using setting in module or event, uses site admin address
• Placing a copy of a calendar on a second page, causes duplicate results returned in My Enrolments
• Bugs in .ics export
• Using '[' or ']' in tooltip title or description causes problems
• iCal export does not support regions with no DST
• Apply ISO 8601 standard for week numbers
• Improve code performance be removing unnecessary DB calls
• Expire events not working?
• Enhancement: Automate entry of events scheduled task
• RSS feed does not point to right tab
• RSS feed does not take note of 'Use Module Container & Skin' setting
• Awaiting approval template is missing
• ImageURL may change when EnrollRoleID is changed
• When a user is enrolled to an Event, the telephone number (taken from the User Profile) does not show up where expected in the Edit view
• If you have a monthly recurring event which takes place on the last Wednesday of the month, and the last day of the month is a Wednesday, the calendar shows the event on the Wednesday before.
• Tokens for URLs do not include domain name when Friendly URLs are switched off
• The timezone is not offsetting against the timezone set in the portal.
• Expiring events does not seem to handle timezones correctly (via the scheduled process)
• Bug in RSS Feed - Detail Page
• Month View No Cell Events show event count when event should be hidden
• In some instances (unclear what particulat situation), the TimeInterval List and Schedule aren't being created for a fresh install on DNN 5.3.x. This is because the upgrade process isn't being called which creates these items. To handle this situation a fallback solution is required which is run on occasional basis. An appropriate location is in the module settings, since these items are only required within the module settings or as a result of visiting the module settings.
• Currently only the initial host user (UserID = 1) will get new event notifications (if they subscribe). In theory all host users should be able to subscribe.

ENHANCEMENTS

• Add an option to provide a number of attendees to an event.
• Add guests when enrolling
• Recurrences days are now localised
• Added a "quantity" for the event registration, and then of course the Quantity need to multiply the price for the PayPal piece and this does effect the 'seats/quantity' remaining.
• Improved text fragments to be made localisation friendly
• Consolidate TimeZone module settings and TimeZone Update menu option
• Limit number of recurring events generated
• Allow event editor to send custom email to enrolees
• Enable category selection via url, added an option to auto-select a category with a variable in the url.
• Events Month View Select Day: select a date on the calender in month view by clicking on the date
• Raise sub-calendar limit to 1.000 subcalendars
• Enrolled User Cancel Event Booking
• Added an option to send invites out when creating an event.
• Enable tooltip per view type
• The list/day views have now been updated so that no column is mandatory. This gives the flexibility to format as requested here by using the templating capability of the description column. Since the Event Title column also showed various icons (recurrence, importance, notification, enrollment), tokens for these have now been added (recurrenceicon, importanceicon, remindericon, enrollicon) as well as a label and text for notification (reminderlabel and reminder).
• Possibility to mail All Registred Users on Event Creation, there is now an option in the module settings to send an email to a role.
• When entering in new events, or editing existing events, do not allow entry of events that will be immediately deleted (i.e. do a compare with "set expire events older than" entry and perform some form validation
• Currently a fully formatted href is created for the event titles (titleurl) . There is now a token for the basic url available as well, so admins can create hrefs of their own full token.
• Added an extra token for the clean URL next to the version of the Location
• Moved Event Settings out of Module Settings
• Added token for enrollment fee
• Added templating of Location column in list/day views
• Add edsettings to disable enrollment validation popup
• When a week-end day has events in Mont View No Cell Events, the week-day style is applied to it. This was by design, but it ought to have a seperate style to allow flexibility.
• Add RECURRINGEVENT/NOTRECURRINGEVNT tokens
• Add radio button to allow hiding of icon bar
• Adding the following tokens would be very helpful for providing a more integrated experience: [CREATEDBYID] - user ID of the person who created the event [OWNEDBYID] - user ID of the person who owns the event [UPDATEDBYID] - user ID of the person who last updated the event
• Allow max length parameter in description token, e.g. [event:description|150].
• Now the full range of tokens is available to notifications
• Added token [IFTIMEZONEDISPLAY]
• Added HTML alternate text to .ics export to support Outlook
• Ability for sub calendars to filter by category
• Is it now possible to pass the date through the querystringso that the calendar does not default to today. Add this to your URL: "?eventdate=yyyymmdd"
• The Event Detail form can display the Display Name as hyperlink which displays the User Profile page when clicked, and also the email address hyperlink to send a single email.

CHANGES

• Updated DNN Installation manifest to DNN 5 standard
• Updated module to remove functions deprecated in DNN 5 - to enable full DNN 5 Compliancy
• Removed unnecessary calls to getuser in edit control
• Cleanup creation of detail url, and adding of skins controls to URL
• Remove unrequired gifs
• Location and Category editors shouldn't need to be module editors
• Convert module settings into a Class and correctly Type all settings
• Simplified code behind event hiding when full
• Simplified Icon Creation
• Simplified setup of controls on the 4 views
• Rationalised Module Code
• Change Schedule control to use Modules.Events namespace
• Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatibility Namespace is removed
• The module is outputing an empty value against the LOCATION attribute in the iCal file. Outlook 2010 is not able to handle this situation (more than once - it seems alright the first time!!). Outputing a blank value is invalid anyway
• Highlighting of Categories by the color is now on a complete row