Posted by moshe weitzman on November 13, 2007 at 5:28am
With some big help from KarenS, I've migrated this site to CCK date.module events instead of event.module events. Further, I've added a Group Events block in each group when the group has upcoming events (e.g. http://groups.drupal.org/mid-atlantic-usa). That block also notes the ical feed for that group.
Please report any bugs here.
Comments
woot, woot
Great, good by to the "dates back to January" bug. The group calendars are also great.
One small bug(?) I noted is that the Netvibes Drupal universe does not seem to pick up the ical feed anymore. Maybe the URL was moved? (I don't know what was the previous URL). http://www.netvibes.com/drupal I wrote an email to whom I think is the maintainer (also cc-ed you).
unfortunately
i did provide a 301 redirect for groups.drupal.org/event/ical/all/all but this person used a shorter URL which I can't easily redirect because the calendar module uses that path already. the owner of that netvibes should use webcal://groups.drupal.org/ical. it takes one second to change in netvibes.
that netvibes page is pretty cool.
"add event" link
The event calendar used to have an "add event" link at the top. I guess the current ical pointer sentence is also some kind of "helptip", so this can be added back just as well. I think it would be great to have a link to add events right on every event calendar page.
I am unfortunately only a "partial admin" here, so I cannot do this change myself (otherwise I would).
Create Event link . . .
Just above the event block in the group's block (which is always visible, even if the event block is not) there is a 'Create Event' link. Is that not good enough?
nope
The group blocks provide content creation links per type, but they do create the particular posts in the group. Events are possible to add without belonging to a group (although the UI for the group selection does not allow to select None, once you clicked into it and selected at least one group, but this is a bug report for that form :). There are events which do not relate to groups on the site.
not an og problem
i can blame that deselect behavior on many other parties :).
first, it is possible to deselect. the behavior is governed by your OS/browser. For me, apple+click on a selected on a group deselects it. try CTRL or ALT on windows. this is just how multi-select boxes work.
one might argue that fapi should add a 'none' option for non required fields. that would help with this problem.
so, am i on track here or do you refer to some other problem?
acknowledged
Oh, well. I am not well versed with multiselect boxes as it seems. I was unaware of possibilities of unselecting stuff. Anyway, several people don't know of the fact that events can be submitted without a group association (Dries told me their local user group does not promote their events because they have their own site instead of having a group here, so they cannot submit events). So I will look into suggesting and/or implementing solutions to this problem sometime later.
events page
gabor refers to the event page which is linked from the main nav ... i've added the create link there.
Okay.
I totally missed the link, since I don't frequently look there, so I didn't see what he was talking about. And since I had done what I thought he was referring to just a couple of hours earlier...
great
Great. Maybe it could be a little bit more inviting, like "Create an event" instead of "Create event", which sounds a bit too "coldish" for my foreign English understanding.
such irony
i agree that those phrases are nicer but i picked the one that core uses (i.e Create [type]) so that it is more likely to be translated. but i guess event is not part of core so our languages here are unlikely to have that string translated.
changed.
drupal.org is hungry... needs a FEEDing :)
Ok, I guess I'm slow but I just realized the events block on the front page of drupal.org is still showing November dates. Looks like the feed got lost in the transition to Calendar/CCK date. Could someone fix that up, please?
Thanks,
Michelle
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indeed
Drupal.org uses http://groups.drupal.org/event/rss which is now not active. I did not find an RSS feed for the current event listing (only ical), so I am not sure how we can feed that through to drupal.org.
"fixed" drupal.org
i just restored this feature to groups.drupal.org and edited drupal.org to match. the url for now for a site-wide rss event feed is http://groups.drupal.org/ical/*/feed. you can use any group nid instead of * to get a group rss event feed.
however, rss events look very silly at drupal.org as the only date they show is the date created, not the date of the event. see http://drupal.org/aggregator/sources/73. we really need an ical viewer on drupal.org or else we should emit an image or something.
Replacement Setup
Is this replacement of Event.module setup like this example? http://drupal.org/node/133341