I have just tried both of these on my test site. The Event module gave me a month, day and list views of my event content and a Calendar if I wanted it. BUT, I have read that the Event module is not being progressed and will not be compatible with D7 and that the Calendar module is the way to go. Is this true?
The Calendar module used with CCK, Views and Date modules produces just that, a calendar. I have it showing a single Month view but does not have those other views (at least not after following the tutorials). It also does not seem (to my novice eyes) to be able to do repeat events. Can it?
This is for our Village Hall and would like to be able to add a repeat event in to save typing. Is this possible?
We would also like to print out all of the event content nodes so we can export for the local parish magazine. Does anyone know how?
Any advice on these possibilities greatly appreciated.
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The calendar.module ships with a view that has month, week and day displays in it as well as others. This view can be cloned and then used to create your views is desired. I don't manipulate default views as I prefer to keep them entact for reference later.
At this time event.module doesn't have a stable release for D6 and D7 isn't all that far away relatively speaking. Date, Calendar, Views, CCK are all modules that will move to D7. CCK is in core in D7. Whether Event dies on the vine or not only the developer can say. Without a stable D6 release and little to no activity in CVS moving it to a stable D6 release would cause me concern enough to avoid using the event module.
Date.module provides repeat events, with the repeat date api which would have to be enabled in admister -> modules.
over @ drupaltherapy.com is a date/calendar module videocast that may be worth watching if you've not already.
Thanks for that
Thanks for that VeryMisunderstood, I have adopted the Calendar in the downloaded Views module. Do you know if it is possible in some way to enter repeating events into this calendar system? I would like my users when creating a page type "Events" to have a field which allows insertion of the event (ad-infinitum) automatically each same weekday onwards (like a club which meets every Monday e.g.).
Any ideas how to configure that appreciated.
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I've not used it only know of it. I've never had a need. I would think that the views would have to be manipulated in some way.