Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.I would like to help with this module. I was thinking of doing the same thing but there is no reason for two of them. I can document, and I am just learning how to build modules. One extra bit of functionality I would like to see in the module is that the announcement can optionally post to the site calendar as well if it is an event type of announcement.
Bill Dornbush
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Comment #1
nancydruI have already thought about trying to see how to make an announcement also an event, but haven't had a lot of time to pursue it. And, last I looked, Event was in a state of flux.
Thank you for your offer, Bill. I'm sure the initial documentation I put out there could stand some sprucing up. Are you on the doc team?
I know the README.txt file could use more meat.
If you want to do some coding, I can grant you CVS access if you have an account.
Comment #2
bdornbush commentedI am not on any team - yet. I have been working with Drupal for the last year plus a bit, and have implemented 6 sites. mostly nonprofit and church sites. Church sites need the announcement capability and I use a combination of CCK, Views, Contemplate, Date, and Calendar (see http://dornbush.net/cms/node/9 for a description). I sweapped out Date and went to Events to implement this at one site. I used Events mostly because the client wanted repeating events, and Date didn't have that functionality yet. (It's planned) We should take a hard look at the tradeoffs between these modules before proceeding. Date looks like the better choice right now, imho. I found that the repeating events functionality didn't work smoothly with my cobbled together approach as it duplicated the events rather than just duplicating the calendar events as I had expected, and also created a parallel but different calendar that was really confusing. It is partly what convinced me that a module approach was needed.
I'll start by looking at the README and initial documentation. I have requested a CVS account so I can also help with coding.
Comment #3
nancydruThe Event Repeat module is undergoing extensive revision and may be deprecated in favor of Date at some point (last I looked). I was never crazy about how Event Repeat duplicated events, but it worked for me in the two site where I used it, so I never got deep into it.
But this is not a feature I'm in a big hurry to implement. Well, actually, I did this module because of some posts in the forum and I was bored one day...
Comment #4
bdornbush commentedI have a Drupal CVS account and would appreciate getting CVS access. I am working through the module, and found one bug: In "announcements_menu," for the first item, node/add/announcements, "announcements" is misspelled as "announcments." This leads to there being an extra entry under Create Content which goes only to the Create Content menu. Interestingly, I assume you could have not defined this at all, as Drupal added an Announcements entry, which I presume is because you have defined the Announcements content type.
How shall I communicate what I am working on, and what changes I would like to make? Use this queue, or email, or Drupal contact, or something else?
Comment #5
nancydruThe misspelling is fixed in the -dev version.
Hmm, in 6.x you no longer need node/add/type, but it's supposed to be required in 5.x.
You have access now. If you want to make an enhancement, I would prefer creating an issue so I can see it. If you're working on an issue, just assign it to yourself and I'll know you're taking care of it.
Comment #6
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