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6/7/2006 3:26 PM
 
John Cornelison


Joined: 7/15/2005
Posts: 429

Love this module! But there are a few issues to smooth out:

1) Mapquest just generated me a 384 byte "Link to us using this URL" link. I was able to enter it as a mapURL into my DNN 4.02 with Events 3.02 (beta) installed. But when I right click and checked properties for the resulting link in my DNN page, it was only 256 bytes long. I suspect even 512 bytes will be too short as MapQuest adds the business name to the link and that can be rather long too.

2) My images ONLY show up in the Event View, not on the main calendar. Ah, looking at properties for the image it is truncated at the first space: one of my directory names had a space in it and that apparently caused issues for Events 3.02.

3) Also when adding a category and one selects a color, the drop-down box is left still in the selected state, so the color isn't what you just picked, but the inverse (or something) which I found confusing at first.

Also, personally, I'd prefer to just change the event name's font color to what I selected for that category, NOT the background of the event name. The background is just changed behind each letter, not a regular rectangular block.  I think this jagged appearance is visually wierd and won't be a popular option - unless you could change the entire event's rectangular (non-jagged) background to that color. Maybe I could use CSS to set a rectangular region and set that background color, eh?!

4) I haven't tried, but I hope there is someway to enter really wierd recurring events: 3rd Sat & Sun of odd months, except for the holiday season. (I'm thinking that I would have to enter a RegEx type expression or do a bit of custom coding/xml, not that your UI would support it though.) I'll go find out next I guess!

(...a bit later) Nope, I'd like to see more options in setting recurrence patterns, though I haven't a clue as to what is state of the art here. I think I saw a forum/blog note from you(?) with some links to these though.

5) It would be nice to have a "Clone this Event" when creating similar events that happen on Saturday and Sunday for instance.

6) I haven't looked yet but can I alter the CSS to change graphic size in the calendar view (space is a premium here) versus in the full page event view (space isn't critical here)?

7) Event description can not have an apostrophe (') in it!!! If so-when in calendar view (not full-page event view)- I get an dialog entitled "Error" that states, "A Runtime Error has occurred. Do you wish to Debug?  Line 375   Error: Expected ')'. If I don't debug, the page still displays OK.

8) Tooltip on the event states "Calendar". The hovering block does appear also -- but it is at the wrong z-level, so shows up behind the page. I use z-levels in creating my skin (only 0-10 though), so maybe we're conflicting here.

Nice job though, this really is a superb module. It rocks!

 

- John
www.VashonSoftware.com
 
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7/8/2006 6:42 PM
 
John Cornelison


Joined: 7/15/2005
Posts: 429

Regarding 7), a workaround is to use the ’ character instead of the ' character

Additionally,

9) I created a all inclusive events calendar, then tried to create a 'sub' calendar (event listing) that would only display events from a specific one or more categories. I quickly found this wasn't possible. (Instead one needs to create a bunch of sub calendars and merge them into one or more Master Calendars.) Would it be that hard to add this capability, i.e. to add a filter for certain categories in the Event Listing Settings?

10) When one does create a master calendar, it lists the event name, but then follows it with the Module Title used for the sub-calendar. If I eliminate the module title, it still puts in the ().  I find this verbose and would like to turn off the appending of the subcalendar name. Is this possible currently?!

11) If it is true that an Event Listing can not add additional events (or filter them as I request in point 9 above), then it makes no sense (to me!) to list them as 'sources' for other Event Listings/Master Calendars to consume. I name most of my various calendars and event listings using similar titles at the top of the modules. Then these get real confusing to decide which I want to consume. Why display the ones that 'don't add any value', i.e. are identical? Can we just display ones which might contain events that are not elsewhere?!

12) Maybe I am not understanding the master model used, but I created a calendar of 'Events'. I then created a new master 'Activities' calendar that consummed the Events calendar and added a few Activities of its own. This works fine.

Then I created an Activities Event Listing based on the 'Activities' calendar. It ONLY displayed those few Activities I had added, but NOT those from the Events calendar that the Activities Calendar consummed and displayed.

I was sorely grieved at this point. Then I tried to make the Events Listing a master calendar that consummed both the Activity & Events calendars. Then it still ONLY displayed the Activities and when I went back to the settings for the Events Listing, I got a Module Error that prevented making any changes.  (Fortunately I was able to use the browser's History cache, to reset things and allow me back in. I probably also could have just deleted the module and started over.)

- John of Vashon

P.S. Once I figure out how to set up a development environment to modify the core (all the explainations assume one wants to create one's own module and there seemingly are a dozen or so variations on that - with a variety of political implications to each) I might be willing to help do some of this!

- John
www.VashonSoftware.com
 
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