#288 - calendar - multi-day events, strange behaviour, some questions
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I think 'Mon' is a language string.
Times are not optional, you'd just need to decide e.g. to start at 9am or midnight.
Including everything I wrote in the first post.
But then it should be implemented in future versions of Composr, too.
A good calendar function would be important for our community development.
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Regarding to the language string: The {TIME*} expression in the BLOCK_SIDE_CALENDAR_LISTING.tpl causes short names such "Mon, Tue, Wed ...". But I want to display the long names now such as "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday ...". How to make this change?
Best regards
Falko
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I was wrong about language strings. It is hardcoded in sources/blocks/side_calendar.php.
Change "'D'" to "'l'" (i.e. single quotes are there). Line 146.
It would be nice if this went through a language string like the other time "equations" do. In fact, I will do that for the next release.
When I tried to pay via PayPal, I had to pay 20 percent (about 30 EUR) value added tax additional. Is it possible to transfer you the the 110 GBP (about 130 EUR) directly?
After that I will prepare a concrete list of changes I would like you to implement :)
Best regards
Falko
However... I need to confirm I am actually able to implement this for you, I don't want you to send money then come back and say there are big problems. I think it will be fine, but I will confirm later today :).
additional to my first suggestions, some more details, what I would like you to implement:
- a multi-day event should displayed for every day in side calendar block (picture 001)
|- why it isn't displayed in this order: Freitag, Samstag, Sonntag, 10. Oktober (2011)?
|- Info: week begins on sunday is unset
- End (Date and Time) should be unset by default (picture 002)
- maybe you could add a tickbox for multi-day events like in Mozilla lightning (picture 003) :)
- display the birthdays of members in calendar (not side block)
Hopefully I don't annoy you and you will understand what I write.
I uploaded a second attachement.
Best regards
Falko
Yes I can now confirm all this can be done. The extra points will put it up to 4 hours. Would you like me to proceed?
I am also considering throwing in point 4 from #48 (more specification of timezones), as it is a popular request.
Best regards
Falko
Regarding automatic DST, if I understand you correctly this is already in Composr in recent versions. The calendar stuff is to make it specific what timezone an event is for. Some events shouldn't have timezone conversions and just say the direct requested time and timezone (e.g. birthdays), other events should auto-convert to the timezone the viewer is in (e.g. webinars).
All will be included in 7.2.
You definitely got some value for money, ended up taking about 10 hours rather than 4 ;). But nice changes, you will have made a few people happy with this.
Best regards
Falko
I started to test the new calendar features with the yesterdays v8. And I want to give you some bug reports now. At first I made a short video (without sound) showing some issues: http://vimeo.com/37231967
The next point is about some theme modifications. I attached a picture to demonstrate how it should looks like. I'm especially not lucky with the side calendar listing block. A multi-day event should only be displayed once with the small info symbol. And maybe it would be better if you could remove the outer left image by default. It's just wasting space.
Times should only be displayed if set in the event. What's bringing me to the next point. After adding an all day event it is displayed everywhere with the time 12:00 AM. So it isn't really an all day event. This confuses me.
Best regards
Falko
One note:
"And maybe it would be better if you could remove the outer left image by default. It's just wasting space."
That's the event type icon. You can template out if you like.
unfortunately I have to reopen the topic again. I've found a lot of more issues (sorry for that) and made again some videos (this time with sound). Hopefully you will understand what I'm trying to say :o
I want to start with an event set across two month:
http://vimeo.com/37399800 - #004
The "unmonitor" button:
http://vimeo.com/37399966 - #005
A multi-day event starts before the current date:
http://vimeo.com/37400202 - #006
calendar side block:
http://vimeo.com/37401540 - #007
Probably you will already curse the calendar ;)
But it's a very important feature for my projects.
Best regards
Falko
I can very easily :).
My only comment...
I always correct people who say "two-thousand-and-twelve" and get them to say "twenty-twelve". We're 12 years into the millenium and using really long year names still :D.
Just kidding.
What actually happened here was this...
When you view an event, the date of that event is held in the URL, because of recurrences it needs to know which "instance" of the event it was.
When you edited, it took you back to the same URL.
We'll fix by stopping that automatic redirect back, as it's taking you back to a defunct URL.