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new configuration manager screen capture

working on finalizing the updating script for the database and a few quarks on the event list theme controls, thanks everyone for your patience an understanding

Status Update:

I’m working on two outstanding areas the events list (non-calendar) and the database upgrade script. I’ll provide updates each day until this release is ready.

~Cheers

That’s going to be a great module! Thanks you guys!

Could you please advice how to change a month presentation into other than ENG locale. I guess I need to add something like:
setlocale(LC_TIME, "ru_RU.UTF8");
somewhere in mxCalendar.class.php or calendar.inc.php. But I’m not very familiar with programming and php. Could you please help?

Thanks in advance!

Quote from: Plankton at Apr 18, 2010, 11:06 AM

That’s going to be a great module! Thanks you guys!

Could you please advice how to change a month presentation into other than ENG locale. I guess I need to add something like:
setlocale(LC_TIME, "ru_RU.UTF8");
somewhere in mxCalendar.class.php or calendar.inc.php. But I’m not very familiar with programming and php. Could you please help?

Thanks in advance!

We need the communities help to translate the current en_En.lang file to other languages. Once we get the translated files back we’ll add them to the project. In the new release it will match the language file to that set in ModX Manager configuration, if it exist for mxCalendar.

If you’re interested in help do translations, please send me a note or review the /assets/modules/mxCalendar/lang/en-En.lang file to translate.

Cheers

Thanks for your reply, charless. I’ve already translated this file... partially. But I have no idea how to translate MONTHS there. When I’m ready with the translation into Russian, I could share it. NP.

charless, I have a couple of other questions to the module:

1) Add new Event window. I can see a Link field there, but can not understand how to use it. When I put doc id there nothing happens. I don’t see any changes. Could you please explain the purpose of this field?

Also I appreciate to get the latest version of the module documentation if any. The one that I can see in the Wiki looks too short and outdated.

2) Multi-Categories. Currently I’m trying to use this module for organization of a calendar of training events, presentations, forums, etc. on some training company’s site.

I’m interested to filter events by 2 parameters/categories: training direction and lector. I have a list of training directions and I want to let web users select a direction and see a list of upcoming events for this direction on one side and to select a lector and see a list of her/his lectures on the other side.

Also it would be great to have an opportunity to indicate several directions and several lectors for each event. May be it would be helpful to use tags approach here.

My question is if this functionality (or some part of it) already exists or is in implementation queue or planned.


Also I would appreciate any advices that could help me to organize a training schedule on my site (hints for this module, suggestions of other modules or other CMS with such modules).

Quote from: Plankton at Apr 18, 2010, 01:05 PM

charless, I have a couple of other questions to the module:

1) Add new Event window. I can see a Link field there, but can not understand how to use it. When I put doc id there nothing happens. I don’t see any changes. Could you please explain the purpose of this field?

Also I appreciate to get the latest version of the module documentation if any. The one that I can see in the Wiki looks too short and outdated.

2) Multi-Categories. Currently I’m trying to use this module for organization of a calendar of training events, presentations, forums, etc. on some training company’s site.

I’m interested to filter events by 2 parameters/categories: training direction and lector. I have a list of training directions and I want to let web users select a direction and see a list of upcoming events for this direction on one side and to select a lector and see a list of her/his lectures on the other side.

Also it would be great to have an opportunity to indicate several directions and several lectors for each event. May be it would be helpful to use tags approach here.

My question is if this functionality (or some part of it) already exists or is in implementation queue or planned.


Also I would appreciate any advices that could help me to organize a training schedule on my site (hints for this module, suggestions of other modules or other CMS with such modules).

the link fields are used as follows:
- Link = The document resource id in ModX CMS site (must be valid integer) -or- full internal/external site URL with http://www.google.com. The module either then uses the core class to create the valid link for document id into SEF or non depending on your site or makes no change for the external link and uses the raw text as provided.

- Multi-Categories = The new version does have the categories manager enabled to add as many categories as you desire, but currently doesn’t support an event to be assigned to multiple categories. I will take that and the tags request into consideration for the next release.

the general question of use for you purpose currently isn’t supported, but a valid request and I’ll try to find a way to solve this in the next release.

In the 0.4 release, the year is not included with the month in the month display.
Could the year please be included with the month??
I believe this is commonly done in other calendar apps.
Thank you, Tom

Quote from: charless at Apr 18, 2010, 02:13 PM

the link fields are used as follows:
- Link = The document resource id in ModX CMS site (must be valid integer) -or- full internal/external site URL with http://www.google.com. The module either then uses the core class to create the valid link for document id into SEF or non depending on your site or makes no change for the external link and uses the raw text as provided.

- Multi-Categories = The new version does have the categories manager enabled to add as many categories as you desire, but currently doesn’t support an event to be assigned to multiple categories. I will take that and the tags request into consideration for the next release.

the general question of use for you purpose currently isn’t supported, but a valid request and I’ll try to find a way to solve this in the next release.

Link
Looks that it does not work with Link as you described. I’ve tried to set either ’8’ (integer doc id) or ’http://google.com’ but got URLs like http://site.com/calendar.html?details=4 under event titles. So I’m still don’t understand how to use this. Could you please provide some example?


Comment: It starts working with doc id somehow if I change string 686 in mxCalendar.class.php
from:
$title=$event[’title’];
to:
$title=’<a href="[~’.$event[’link’].’~]">’.$event[’title’].’</a>’;


Multi-Categories
Thank you for taking my case into consideration in future releases. And what about the new version (0.0.5 - ?)? When we can expect it published?