By bfo on

Hi,

I'm trying to move my site over from 5.x to 6.x and just testing that I can get all the same functionality with the new site.

I'm having trouble with the events module, it seems to be installing ok but the upcoming events isn't showing at all and I don't know if I'm just being dumb and missing something or if there is an issue.

I'm using postgres but there are no error messages coming up.

I'm wondering if anyone else has come across this and or if there is another module that I can use for upcoming events and calendar views.

Thanks

bfo

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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washuapo commented

As far as I understand, the event module for drupal 6 is is still in dev, so it's likely to have issues. My website has the same issue, that is I need to have events on it. Another way to provide the functionality is with a combo of 5 different modules, some of which you may already have. Those 5 are CCK, Views, Date, Calendar, and Signup. All of them have stable releases for drupal 6 except for signup, which is on it's 4th release candidate, which from my use has seemed pretty stable, although they seem to be adding more features to the module.

CCK allows you to create new node types, in this case Events. Date gives you date fields for those types (your events) Views and Calendar provide the familiar calendar views as well as way to create upcomming event blocks and pages etc, and signup allows you to have people sign up for the events and allows emails to be sent out etc. So using all of these together creates the same effect, although it's a little more of a pain to set up, it seems more more customiziable than events.

The following URL has a good video on how to set it all up. It's a little outdated in that some of the modules have changed slightly, but it should help. Add the signup module on the end and you'll almost the functionality of the your old set up repeated.
http://www.drupaltherapy.com/node/76

The one problem however is I don't know how you would transfer your old event nodes over to your new ones . . . but if you don't need to, then you should be set. Hope this helps.