in progress Event calendar feature requests

Date ranges. Events often happen over two or more days.

All day option for timing, plus start and stop times, not just start time.
updated by @claygordon: 02/17/15 07:41:59AM

Use the form designer.
Add a checkbox for 'All Day' and a date/time field for 'end date/time'.


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist

Here's a previous post on this as well:

https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/forum/suggestions/20578/events-adding-multiple-dates


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

In the end, to fully implement this feature requires modifying a bunch of templates. While it may not be standard for JR users, this is the default for Ning sites so it makes sense - IMO - to make it a standard part of the Ningja skin family.

It's not controlled by the NingJa skin, but is controlled by the Profile Events module so it's not something that can just be added to Ningja (although we could certainly look for special fields that you would create).

I think ultimately what is needed here is a way for us to add fields to a module and have them be "turned off" by default in the form designer. That way we can add these fields in and not enable them (as most of our customers have never asked for this), and then you could just enable them if you wanted them.

We'll look into that for a future release, but being fairly "low level" it's not likely to happen really fast (as the form handling impacts a very large number of areas in JR).

Hope this helps!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

Brian-

It's not the adding the fields that's the challenge for most of us ex-Ning users. It's the programming required integrate the fields into pages.

I've had lots of help that pointed me in a direction - and that would probably be enough if I were an experienced programmer. But I am not.

I can guess that an if would be required to test if there is an end date for an event, but that does not mean I could easily implement something that works - especially if I don't know what to test for.

That's one of the reasons I posted the entire code for modifying the images:### link on my profiles page. Might be trivial to the developers of JR, but for someone (like Strumelia and myself) coming from Ning the programming task is daunting.

I don't know the best way to answer this, but it is an issue for people migrating from Ning who aren't familiar with the codebase and the ACP.

I hear you - I just want to be sure that you know there is likely going to be some editing of templates and such that you will need to do if you want to customize your site. For those that don't want to customize their site in any way, they will want to just stick with the "out of the box" Jamroom experience. If that won't work for them, then Jamroom may not be the platform for them.

I learned a long time ago you can't please everyone, and we're hopeful that even if we don't cover 100% of Ning's features, that the hundreds of additional features you can get with Jamroom more than makes up for it.

Also - I just pushed out a new release of the Event module that moves the small "calendar button" as well as the "attending" button into the item detail and list button configuration (which is where they should be). The calendar image has been updated to be a little more colorful to.

Hope this helps!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net
updated by @brian: 01/16/15 02:14:10PM

Brian - I am seeing the Attending button twice on event detail pages.
updated by @claygordon: 01/16/15 02:24:37PM

Have you customized your event template? If so you need to remove the following line from your custom item_detail.tpl template:


It's near the top.

Let me know if that helps.


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

I did customize the event template - I added a link to a website and changed some language.

Commented out the line and the duplicate disappeared like a charm.

I tried that new icon, which does look nicer, but on the HomeIndex page module, it was way too big- like 4x the size of the previous one, and the event title wrapped in weird places because of it, so I again removed the template line to not show the icon in the home page events module. This was in my custom skin.


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...just another satisfied Jamroom customer.
Migrated from Ning to Jamroom June 2015

Brian -

The Attended and Calendar Icon are showing up in Blogs for some reason. Did you intend them to show up there?
updated by @claygordon: 01/16/15 09:04:22PM

Go to your System Tools > Reset Cache and reset the cache with the "Reset Icon Cache" checkbox checked and see if that fixes the issue.


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Douglas Hackney
Jamroom Team - Designer/Developer/Support
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No - this was my fault

I've got it fixed up - update to version 1.1.1 and that should be fixed.

Sorry about that!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net