I'm not crazy... Date and Views hate each other!

Glad you got your cert. Thanks.

It is, indeed, related. The recent changes to the Views API renders the Date fields unusable as filters, sorting criteria, arguments, etc. Bummer. :-(

Glad your x-ray is looking better. I was worried when I saw that last one!

I haven't tried in the past few days, but I believe Drupal 7 Date/Calendar + Views may be broken for a while still.

I keep checking the commits for Date and Calendar occasionally. You may see a fix end up in there.

The default behavior is to sort by date posted. Remove the Content: Post date from the Sort Criteria. Add the date field by which you'd like the content sorted as a Sort Criteria.

That's it.

On pastebin you don't attach a copy of your screen. Pastebin is a convenient way for storing and sharing text, most often programming code. Often in a conversation like this we'll ask you to put some text (like the contents of your settings.php file, a Views export, or a SQL query) into Pastebin and share the link here – it's a quick way to look at the details without pasting tons of text into these posts themselves (though that can work as well sometimes). Pastebin is so easy, you just copy the text you want to paste onto your clipboard, go to http://pastebin.com , paste the text into the big form, set optional paste settings, and click submit - you've just created a new web page with your paste, with its own URL. Then just copy the URL from your browser address bar and paste it here, into an email, wherever you want to share it.

Sometimes you want to share an image of your screen rather than pasted text. There are many ways to grab images of your screen (called screenshots or screengrabs). There are typically 3 steps to sharing screenshots: 1) Grabbing the area of the screen you want, 2) Optionally annotating the screenshot with explanatory text, arrows, etc 3) Uploading the image to the web somewhere so it can be shared easily. In the past 3) was a big pain, but recently there have been a number of services that make it almost instant.

Solutions differ depending on your platform: Mac, Windows, and Linux. Which platform are you on?

I'm on a Mac, and the two I use are Skitch and Cloud.app. Skitch is awesome and offers all 3 of the features above. Cloud.app doesn't do annotations, but the grab/upload experience is only a single step, which is hugely convenient, so I use that when I don't need to annotate. These are both free services. If you're on a Mac I'd say: get skitch, take 10 minutes to figure it out, and you're done.

I can't personally speak to Windows or Linux solutions, but Christopher Cable (opegasus on this group) is using Jing for Windows, which seems to offer similar functionality.

You'll need to invest a little time into learning and setting up the tool you choose. The thing to remember is to get a tool that allows frictionless upload of your screenshots to an online service, and an easy way to get the link to the posted image so you can pate it into an email or post. For instance, I just used Skitch to grab part of my screen, add annotations, and with 1 button uploaded it to skitch.com and got the link. Here it is: https://skitch.com/alaken/ghdjj/preview-comment-drupal-groups

When participating in a community like Drupal it's really helpful to get fluent with tools like Pastebin and the screenshot sharing tools – they can help you describe your problem very quickly, and make it easier for others to help you. And conversely, they can be effective tools to offer help to others (see this example of how I used Skitch to explain a complex series of steps in a post on this site.)

Hope that helps!

– Andy

...one can visit a specific module's project page http://drupal.org/project/date anytime we wish to read about that module, any updates and patches, commits, etc. http://screencast.com/t/cxgwAdOHgBY

You can even chime in on issue/bugs if you encounter any.

Hmm...not sure. This is a pretty old thread, so the original bugs we were discussing are likely resolved or irrelevant, but that doesn't mean that you haven't found a problem.

You might want to post an issue on the queue for the Calendar module to get the most attention. I'm not sure I have enough information from your post to reproduce the issue, but I'll give it a try.