Entries for the 'DNN Events' Category

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...

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...

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...

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...

I've now spent several weeks updating the Events module to give much more flexibility around recurring events. Up to version 4.0.2, recurring events were represented by one record in the database. I.e. All instances of a recurring event were exactly the same (Description, price, time, etc), if you changed/deleted one, you changed/deleted them all. The good news is that from 4.1.0 this will all cha...

Just been through and added the userid of the user who last update an event to the Events table. I needed this for my RSS feed, since it kept showing the creator had posted a change, when they hadn't. So, useful for me, but probably also useful for others. The data is stored in LastUpdatedID, but the EventsSave, EventsGet and EventsGetByRange sprocs also return LastUpdatedBy which is the DisplayNa...

Prior to version 4.0.0, event enrollments were being retrieved for the whole portal. This is incorrect and should be linked at least to the module being viewed. However, the change made, meant that only enrollments for the current calendar and not it's sub-calendars were being displayed. This requires a minor SPROC change to EventsSignupsMyEnrollments. Basically this makes it check whether the Mod...