I'm back to working on Events now after taking a detour to implement Pages (CMS).
I just sent a pull request for my first stab at implementing iCal. I have tested it so far with Outlook (Windows) and Google Calendar and both appear to work nicely. It is my hope that this will make the reminders feature unnecessary as users can set up reminders in their calendar app. Request for feedback: 1. I need to know if there are any issues importing the .ics feed into any apps. 2. I need to know what other links to add. There is an "iCal" link which should work fine for fat clients (Outlook, iCal, Thunderbird) or web apps that support subscribing to iCal. I also included a link that adds the events list directly to Google calendar. What else do people use? Yahoo! Calendar does not support iCal AFAIK (send them emails to complain!), so that's out. What else is popular enough to merit its own link? Finally, I agree that adding links for collections of events makes sense. That is exactly what I had in mind when I added the metro areas. I was thinking at first it would be easiest just to have two filters: All and My Metro Area. I'll get that on my TODO list. I don't think any changes are needed to show recent events on the home page, though. Just over-ride the appropriate view. On Aug 17, 11:23 am, "James.d" <[email protected]> wrote: > One small feature request? Now thateventscapture metro areas, any > interest in building some collections? The current thought would be > some small Side_bar style lists (5 or so entries) to displayevents > for certain metro area. And or also "RecentEvents" type lists for my > home page views? > > James > > On Jul 25, 8:48 pm, eksatx <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The group event idea seems interesting. I think it makes sense to let > > both theeventscode and groups code stabilize a bit before trying to > > combine 'em though. > > > From the feedback so far, comments and reminders seem like the next > > things to do. > > > I should be able to figure out comments. I think the only thing I > > need to change is the wayeventsare accessed. I think they need to > > have an owner in the url like this: /myuser/events/32. At least, > > that's how it appears to me from looking at the code. Am I right, or > > have I missed something? > > > As for reminders, I need some kind of daemon that sends the emails at > > the appropriate time. This looks promising: > > >http://github.com/tobi/delayed_job/tree/master > > > Does anybody have a suggestion of something they think would be better > > or more appropriate? > > > FYI, at the moment administrators and moderators can postevents. > > > On Jul 22, 3:51 pm, Bruno Bornsztein <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > I agree that event posting should be limited to admins and moderators by > > > default. If people want expanded access in their apps, they can easily > > > change that. > > > Commenting oneventsalso seems logical, with e-mail notifications for > > > anyone who has RSVP'd. > > > > Thanks! > > > Bruno > > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:24 PM, James.d <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Here's my vote 1 & 2 > > > > > 1. There should at least be aeventsposting role, perhaps just bundle > > > > it in with moderators? > > > > 2. Comments oneventsseems pretty easy and straight forward > > > > > On Jul 21, 7:18 pm, eksatx <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The latesteventsstuff (including RSVPs) is now in edge. I look > > > > > forward to hearing feedback about it. > > > > > > Where should it go next? Please try to keep in mind I am looking for > > > > > ideas that apply very broadly to everybody and thus belong in core. > > > > > If you have a very specific need then you should probably add that by > > > > > over-riding the base CE stuff. > > > > > > Some ideas I am considering: > > > > > > 1.Eventsare now only added by the administrator. Shouldeventsbe > > > > > more like blog posts where all users can addevents? You could then > > > > > vieweventsper user. Perhaps theEventslist would collate all > > > > >eventsby date. Perhaps this could use a review system where all > > > > > users can submitevents, but only the administrator can publish. > > > > > > 2. RSVPs don't allow including a note. Should they? Perhaps a better > > > > > solution would be to enable comments forEvents-- then you add your > > > > > comment to the event, not the RSVP (ala Facebook). > > > > > > 3. Reminder emails forevents. > > > > > > 4. Export. Output as iCal? Links to add to Google calendar or Yahoo! > > > > > calendar? RSS feed ofEvents? > > > > > > I guess I'm looking for a consensus on the top one or two features > > > > > that everybody thinks is essential. > > > > > > On Jul 14, 12:19 am, eksatx <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > I think I have the RSVP stuff finished. I beefed up the validation > > > > > > (make sure people can't RSVP foreventsin the past, etc.) and wrote > > > > > > unit and functional tests. > > > > > > > In keeping with the rest of the site design it should probably be > > > > > > AJAXified. I always like to start with the simplest, old-school > > > > > > interface first to make sure the design holds together. I think > > > > > > I'll > > > > > > push it out in its current state. If everybody likes it then I'll > > > > > > add > > > > > > AJAX-y goodness. > > > > > > > On Jul 13, 12:13 am, eksatx <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > So far so good. > > > > > > > > The next step is implementing RSVPs forevents. > > > > > > > > I am pretty close to having something. > > > > > > > > Each event shows a list of attendees. Users can RSVP for an event > > > > and > > > > > > > enter the number of people they are bringing. Attendees can > > > > > > > update > > > > > > > their count of guests and/or retract their RSVP. > > > > > > > > I've got to bang away at it a bit to see what I may have missed > > > > > > > and > > > > > > > write some tests. > > > > > > > > With any luck I'll have something for you to check out in the next > > > > few > > > > > > > days. > > > > > > > > On Jul 9, 9:56 pm, mike muldoon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I also took the liberty of adding the calendar_date_select. I > > > > have > > > > > > > > > used this gem on a bunch of sites and I have found it to work > > > > well. > > > > > > > > > Frickin awesomeness! I was installing this just today, nicely > > > > > > > > done! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CommunityEngine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/communityengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
