By ThePiston on

Good lord... the Event module has to be the biggest piece of crap I have ever seen. Isnt there one with a popup calendar to choose your dates instead of 10 different pulldowns????

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ac
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Can we make this a book page on how not to get help in the forums?
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Alex Cochrane
Spoon Media

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ThePiston commented

sorry, just fed up with this CMS

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Joat commented

If the event calendar is not up to your standards, please write us a better one. The whole community would benefit, you get exactly what you want and you will not be so fed up with the CMS anymore.

It's called open source because there is documented source code freely available.
And that, my dear f r i e n d, allows _you_ to make the product better if you are not happy with it.

Or pay somebody to do it for you.

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sepeck commented

1. If this cms doesn't meet your needs, then don't use it. It's not like you paid for it.

- or - you can go with choice number two.
2. HELP improve it.

Your choice.

Either way, we could reverse the statement. I'm just fed up with people who rant and demand. Now, that's not really a fair statement to new people. They have to learn to use a system before they can contribute back. Most won't anyway, but again, that's the nature of Open Source. Rants are annoying and people tend to remember them.

Good luck with which ever choice you make.

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

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nevets commented

You can download and install the Javacript Tools Module, then enable it and the jscalendar module (part of javascript tools) and you should now have a popup calendar.

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febbraro commented

The problem with the JSCalendar and the event module is that it does not allow you to specify the time. Or at least on my installation the calendar appears with no time selector.

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jimbop commented

You definitely can use JSCalendar for time but only if the granularity is set to hours/minutes instead of days only. I'm using it with Dates+Calendar, not Event.

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deanypop commented

I think Event is a little unwieldy, but I also use it (successfully) for a lot of stuff...

What I think it, or Drupal generally is missing (and I'd be willing to pay for some fraction of this work), is a way to directly integrate iCal URL-based subscriptions into a site, in a fashion similar to how the aggregator module works.

It already allows for iCal publishing, but subscribe would really add to the power of Drupal - allowing for direct integration of outside calendar data. Right now, our Intranet site (in Drupal) has to link out in a few places to what is essentially simply an iCal-standard calendar in a PM system we use... But if we could incorporate that data in directly, and allow users to create/subscribe to their own calendars, we'd definitely see more usage of the intranet site.

Just a thought. Does anyone know if something does this already?

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vit137 commented

I need a lot of what you describe -- namely my users need their own calendar/planner. It would be great to have a tie-in that allowed the admin to add global events.

I've only been looking into Drupal for a few days, but an implementation like this looks easy. I get the feeling that it's actually out there but I haven't found it yet.

It seems like attaching a module to events that adds user-specific events would do it, but I'm typing out of ignorance right now.

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corinroyal commented

I was just looking at the calendar module, and they say they're implementing the ability to import iCal RSS feeds. So check that out... http://groups.drupal.org/node/2997

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dugh commented

which doesn't work at all

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criznach commented

I'm a little late, but did you file an issue?

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