Features integration from work we've done using RSVP module

Hi Ulf,

we've used this module on a site that launched yesterday, and wanted to share back some of the additions we've made, if there's any interest on bringing the work into the module.

I'll use this issue to give a general overview of the changes we've made, and will hopefully get some time from the agency to separate everything out into individual patches with their own issues if you're interested. Would be good to hear what your plans are for the module rewrite you mentioned, and see if there's any way we can integrate our work with yours.

The work we've done covers a few main areas;

Extra views integration.

Timestamp for invitee response and invitation sent. (Issue 547990)

Move email templates into theme overideable files, and put settings into admin section, so they can be edited without touching code if wanted.

Moved lots of the code that is contained in the theme files into blocks, so it's possible to move the pages into different page regions.

Few relatively minor bugfixes for edge cases.

Added a progress bar to the event creation process, with back/forward buttons at the bottom of each pages. This is probably the most valuable of the additions we made, but also the least complete. If you wanted to include this it would probably best be done as part of the module rewrite.

The main issues with the work we've done which still need some work imo are
1. Knowing which section of the process the user is on, this is currently done by url inspection, but my feeling is that there is a better way of doing it.
2. Block display, we have used the Drupal blocks page to display the blocks on the appropriate pages, again, I think this is better done in code, with the option to override.
3. Views for lists of invitees. This is working quite nicely, we'd like to put the views we are using into a set of default views which the user can override if they want. The views are displayed as blocks, which has the same issues as point 2 above.

The site we built launched yesterdy if you want to take a look at it, it's an public event management site for Breast Cancer Care UK, so you can sign up and try out the event creation process.

pinkfridays.org.uk

Thanks,

Mark