Well we released a new version of the Events module last week (5.0.1). Fortunately things were quiet for me on the work front. Whilst we believed we had tested upgrade situations pretty well, even asking for data from various quarters to help with this, we still missed a couple of scenarios. One person has been using the Events module from it’s early days. (I have as well, but via a forked versio...
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had the time to do some minor updates to the site. These include:- An update to the Forum to 4.5.2. Firefox users were complaining that the icons at the top of the forums were appearing in a vertical column, rather than horizontally. This was a problem buried in the Forum code. Fortunately Chris Paterra has just delivered an new release candidate. This has fi...
Well I’ve taken the plunge and updated the site from Events version 4.0.3 to Events 5.0.0. This is a really major leap in the module, though to be honest, the users of the website will not notice anything substantial. I guess the biggest visible change is the addition of the icon bar. Instead of having to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page to get to these links, they now appear at top r...
Well what has been going on recently on the website? Minor changes really, since my major focus has been on finalising the Events module for its next release. In any case, here’s a summary of what’s happened:- Upgrades to the main DotNetNuke framework to version 4.9.2. DNN is now in two version – Professional edition, which is paid for and comes with committed support. Community edition, which...
One thing the team has spent a lot of time on over the last months is the templating of the Events module. This is by no means all encompassing, but does allow templating of various elements of the module, including:- Detail View - most elements are templateable, but excludes the reminder fields, enrollment fields and the new enrollee list New Event Description Tooltips Emails Enrollment - a...
It is now possible to have all day events, whereby the event is marked as all day, and the start and end time is hidden in all views. This actually sets the start time to 00:00 and the end time to 23:59. It does not limit an event to a single day, it is still possible to alter the end date, so as to have a multi-day all-day event. We have also been request to add an option to enable the hiding of...
There is now the option to subscribe to an instance of the events module. After a user subscribes, whenever a new events is added to the calendar, they are sent a notification of it by email. Bear in mind of course, that if a recurring event is added, the user will receive multiple new event notifications.
Well it's been a while since I posted here, but much work has been done on the Events module in the intervening time, and also a busy time at work, which has kept me away. A couple of months ago I added an Icon Bar to the module. This Icon Bar can be placed at top right of the module, or at bottom centre (which may be of use for those people using the Small theme). It replaces the previous Add Eve...
A couple of weeks ago I worked on changing the Events module over to exporting in iCal spec (.ics, RFC2445) rather than vCalendar (.vcs). The major advantages being that iCal supports recurring events. So you now get the option to export the single event of the whole series if it is a recurring event. In order to support events that cross a Daylight Saving Time Boundary, a VTIMEZONE is created wit...
Prior to version 4.1.0 of the Events module, RSS support has been more by accident than design. I've been working up a designed in RSS capability, so I thought I'd give a brief view on what is there for now.
There is a new section in the module settings as shown to the left. It includes: a check box to enable; a drop down to select what date to use as the publication date (I figured that some p...