New Calendar Module >> Seeking Pilot Group Members

Thank you for the new update -- progress reports are a good sign.

I forgot to say when I submitted my request that our calendar requirements include these items, none of which are possible in any other ModX calendar:

Multiple events per day
Recurring events

I look forward to testing/usage.

Thank you, Tom

I just sent you a request. Like Susan I don’t have a particular website in mind at the moment, but I do have a project I’ve been thinking about that this would be perfect for. I would also be happy to help do writeups for this - docs, tuts, etc.

I do have a client that I have been developing a homegrown Ditto based calendar for so I would be very interested in testing this for her purposes. I didn’t add her url to my email since I don’t know if she would be okay with that.

Anyway, hope you will add me to the group.

thanks!

I do not have the skills to aid with the coding, but please let me know if you want another pair of eyes to proofread/develop the documentation or tutorials. I helped Shane with his Snippet Call Anatomy write-up awhile back...

Quote from: TomMLS at Mar 10, 2010, 01:31 PM

I forgot to say when I submitted my request that our calendar requirements include these items, none of which are possible in any other ModX calendar:

Multiple events per day
Recurring events

The good news those are already built into the module, so that was an easy one
However one thing we’re looking at as a road-map change is how they are displayed in the calendar, attached is a screen capture of that.

The event "Main Event" is one entry that spans two days, thus entered into each day. The "sample two" event is just to show that you can have as many events that you want on a single day or multiple days.

Oh, and I’ve forgot to mention that we have parameters to display the events duration and time. New images attached to demonstrate those parameters were changed.

i’ll update the list of features on the first post as well.

cheers

I am a much better tool user than tool creator (aka developer), so documentation of usage is where I may be able to help out.

This will be a big help to many people, many other ModX calendar apps have fallen by the wayside over time.

Thank you, Tom

just updaetd with new images and two features I forgot to mention:

- Parameter to display event duration (days,hours,minutes)
- Parameter to display event start and end times (uses date(format) according to PHP Date manual)
- events sorted by date,time so the first event of the day is first

just for ease here they are as posted with the previous message: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,46609.msg275410.html#msg275410

~cheers

A feature suggestion for consideration:

Display a smaller calendar and use ajax to display an event’s information on the same page in addition to displaying something when the mouseover event fires.

Easy Events can do this, though not very well, it reverses the month and day in dates, so it’s possible that such an ajax display may not work well for this calendar either. Another problem is that ajax does not do so well with the Back button, so it may be better to send viewer to a new page, and we should certainly have that option because there might be a lot of info about a given event, such as a form to fill out, several paragraphs of text to read, etc.

Thank you, Tom

yet, another parameter/feature I failed to mention is that you can set what weekday you want on the calendar to display first. this allows you to change the start weekday of the monthly view from a Sunday to Monday. see the screen capture below of that parameter being changed to "0" for a Sunday start day where all the others were set to "1" for Monday start week.

the second was to remove weekends from the display

- Set the display start weekday
- Disable/Enable weekends

~cheers

That looks really cool. I like this approach as well.

I am far more interested in this working well in the beginning over throwing in requests for tons of extras features before people even download it.

I think what people want from a calendar is this:

For Designers:
* Simple download
* Good instructions for installing the snippet into MODx
* Good instructions for configuring parameters with easy to follow language
* Links to active examples
* Ability to customize text, boxes, graphics, margins and padding with CSS
* Ability to format the day/date/year sequence

For Clients/Site Owners:
* Easy to add/edit/remove events
* Ability to add multiple events on the same day
* Ability to add a headline and descriptive paragraph to the events

Quote from: Photowebmax at Mar 10, 2010, 03:14 PM

That looks really cool. I like this approach as well.

I am far more interested in this working well in the beginning over throwing in requests for tons of extras features before people even download it.

I only *suggested* the feature and admitted it may not be easy...it doesn’t have to available immediately...though the Easy Events code is readily available, it is somewhat arcanely written and hard to figure out how the snippets and class code fit together etc.

Photowebmax’ list is a perfect example of how ALL ModX extras/modules should be established.

Thank you, Tom