Posted by beg on January 18, 2009 at 12:42pm
Hello,
I'd like to ask which Drupal version to use for following tasks. (I have seen that some module work only with y certain drupal version - so I don't know with which version to start since I don't know the module which would be find for my project..)
The main task for this website will be an event calendar system. Regular events (up to 10 per day) should be shown on a weekly calendar table. (optional view of day only). These events ca be created by "super-users" with permission to create these event entries.
can anyone suggest an event calendar module and for which drupal version - so I can install the correct one..
thx a lot,
Bernhard
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Most modules for 6.x are at
Most modules for 6.x are at least at the release candidate stage, which is good enough for most people to develop a site.
You will want to get the following modules in 6.x flavor
http://drupal.org/project/cck
http://drupal.org/project/views
http://drupal.org/project/calendar
http://drupal.org/project/date
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I suggest you use Drupal 6
I suggest you use Drupal 6 and build a nice working event systems with CCK, Views, Date and Calendar. There is an excellent free chapter of the book "Using Drupal" available that describes the setup in detail.
Check this page
Check this page http://drupal.org/node/326061#comment-1077193 , it appears to do what you want.
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repeating events
Hi,
thx for help and support. While configurating the event page I run into some new questions:
How can I support the creation of repeating events with cck/date/calendar/event modules? e.g. similar events every week, same day, same time. I have to have the possibility to create day/time once and say to repeat every weak, since it's no option to do that for every week manually.
and/or is there any possibility of "saving" kind of templates for events in order to save basic information of a repeating event and just creat a new entry by adding date/time information?
Background is a calendar for new and repeating events. (different events each of them being the same event, same description, weekly with some breaks for holidays..)
I also tried to get different colors for the different events with the node.color module, which would be very usefull. I created different event types with different colors, but they still dont show up in different colors in the Calendar..
thx,
Bernhard
thx
thx so much for fast and many replys and hints!
Bernhard
Handling resource conflicts
The one feature that I can't seem to get with CCK/Views/Date/Calendar is Resource Conflict validation. That is, letting someone request a room and then giving them an error if the room is already booked at that time. The only module that I can find that will do this is http://drupal.org/project/resource_conflict, and, from what I can tell, it requires Drupal 5 and Event module.
Is there any way to handle resource conflicts with Drupal 6 and CCK/Views/Date/Calendar?
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The newer version supports date fields in addition to the event module, but it's still not available for d6 yet unfortunately. There's also the http://drupal.org/project/bookingsapi module, but that appears to be yet another gsoc abandoned project.
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I think you would could write a single function
Until there is a D6 resource_conflict module, I believe you could create a very simple module with single function to override the node_insert() function, then do your resource validation checks. This would take php and drupal experience to create this function in a module, which should be named to match your custom content type for your event. If you created a content type called 'Meeting' the represents the thing being scheduled, then you would name your module 'meeting' and write a custom 'meeting_insert()' function. The function would receive the $node object as its argument, then you can lookup Meetings in the database that match the date criteria to see if there is a conflict.
I know that isn't a quick solution, but if you have development experience, it shouldn't be hard, or there are many many freelancers that could do it for you in short order. I could do it for you if you want go that route.