DNN Events

In version 4.0.1, the Events module uses Now.Date to set the initially Selected Date. This is unfortunately based on the server date. In order to make this more relevant for users in different timezones to their servers (which is common), I have tried to correct the time (and therefore the associated date). This is not 100% accurate, but will be near enough for most use cases.: Therefore.... Getti...

A bug appeared during the week in the module, related to how some countries handle currency strings. For example in some European countries the decimal delimiter is a ','. So €5 can be represented as 5,00. The problem is PayPal doesn't accept this, in must be in the format 5.00. So I've added some coding to process the currency in a neutral format for passing to PayPal. Old code is:- strPayPalURL ...

Testing through the Release Process for version 4.0.1 has highlighted a few issues, one bigger than the others. These will be fixed in a 4.0.2 release. Setting of Columns for List Views In version 4.0.1, I made some extra columns available for the list view. These extra columns changed the column number of some of the other columns. So for instance EventName was column 3 but is now column 4. In th...

Well I've found a couple of bugs in the events module over the last week. Tooltip End Date Tooltips in list view were ending up with the wrong end date. This was due to a previous change I did, where I took the duration of the event and turned it into days (divided by 1440). This was as an option for display in List View. Unfortunately in the code I was overwriting the value of duration that was ...

The current version of the Events Module (4.0.1) uses a method which appears to be no longer supported in DNN5. So to make it work, a new mechanism is required. Fortunately DNN already has an extensible Permissions Grid which is very easy to configure. This is run from IUpgradeable:- 'Lookup DesktopModuleIDobjDesktopModule = objDesktopModules.GetDesktopModuleByModuleName("DNN_Events") If Vers...

As you can see from the screenshots in my previous post, the Events theme from my first post is up on the site. The good news, for me, is that it has been added to version 4.0.1 of the module. The other good news is that the module is back in the release process after the team did a rapid update to the code to correct the security issues identified in the previous release. The new Release Candidat...

Encouraged by one of my fellow contributors to the DNN Events Module I decided I would try and keep a Blog of my activities on the module. Currently the module is back in development after an initial attempt at going through the DNN release process. Unfortunately it fell at the security checkpoint, due to legacy code. So I've spent a happy day, punching in the code changes to get us through this ...