Calendar Topics Support

[Michael.J]

Create a discussion topic for new calendar events. Allowing your community to discuss events.

[Vikestart]

Hmmmm.

Nice concept, but not suitable for what I need  I would definitely buy if:

1. The event info in the topic was in its own box above the OP, separate from the post content of the topic, just like polls are, and is updated automatically if the calendar event is updated.
2. Being able to create a calendar event when you make a topic.

Edited June 12, 2015 by Vikestart

[Michael.J]

Nice concept, but not suitable for what I need  I would definitely buy if:

​I'll save your suggestion and look at it next time I add more features.

[Kev Collins]

Hmmmm.

Nice concept, but not suitable for what I need  I would definitely buy if:

1. The event info in the topic was in its own box above the OP, separate from the post content of the topic, just like polls are, and is updated automatically if the calendar event is updated.
2. Being able to create a calendar event when you make a topic.

​I like the above idea and would suit our forum.

[Michael.J]

New version released that adds compatibility for IP.Board 4.1 and fixes a few critical errors.

[2002faq]

Possible to add a feature that ads a preset Prefix to the topic?  

thanks!

[Michael.J]

17 hours ago, misfit76 said:

Possible to add a feature that ads a preset Prefix to the topic?  

Tag prefix or raw text prefix?

[2002faq]

2 hours ago, Mike John said:

Tag prefix or raw text prefix?

Tag Prefix.

[Michael.J]

On 30/03/2016 at 0:41 PM, misfit76 said:

Tag Prefix.

If you've got tags enabled, the calendar topics should actually inherit what ever tags/prefix you set in the event.

[2002faq]

Getting a problem with a plug in.  I created an even "testing events".  After the creation i was taken to a page http://www.bmw2002faq.com/calendar/event/-testing-events

This page is not found this page should be http://www.bmw2002faq.com/calendar/event/117-testing-events/  The name is missing the ID.  The link in the topic is also incorrect http://www.bmw2002faq.com/forums/topic/178971-testing-events-04012016-900-am-to-04012016-1200-pm/

Creating the events with the plug in disabled does not cause this problem.

Thanks,

Steve K.

[Michael.J]

On 01/04/2016 at 2:02 PM, misfit76 said:

Getting a problem with a plug in.  I created an even "testing events".  After the creation i was taken to a page http://www.bmw2002faq.com/calendar/event/-testing-events

Sounds familiar to another bug I recently had. What version of PHP is your host currently using?

[2002faq]

PHP 5.6

[Michael.J]

On 04/04/2016 at 7:39 AM, misfit76 said:

PHP 5.6

Are you also using the latest version of IP.Board? I'm going to need board access to troubleshoot further, I don't have any possible theories right now.

[2002faq]

latest version of the board. i went from 3.4.xx to 4.19 to 4.1.10

Looks like this is only happening on the Calendar that existed in the old version of the board.  News ones handle this without problems.

do you need both ACP and ssh access?

thanks,

Steve K.

[Michael.J]

On 08/04/2016 at 3:44 PM, misfit76 said:

Looks like this is only happening on the Calendar that existed in the old version of the board.  News ones handle this without problems.

Sorry but just to clarify, do you mean previous events that were created before a certain date?

On 08/04/2016 at 3:44 PM, misfit76 said:

do you need both ACP and ssh access?

Preferably acp and ftp/file access to your forums plugins folder.

[2002faq]

5 hours ago, Mike John said:

Sorry but just to clarify, do you mean previous events that were created before a certain date?

Preferably acp and ftp/file access to your forums plugins folder.

No, the actual Calendar that was created prior to upgrade. The 2 calendars that were created after the upgrade do not have the problem. If i try to create an event in the old calendar, i get a failure, if i create it in the new calendar, there is no problem.

Well, after enabling, disabling and re-enabling things, things look OK right now and everything works. Probably some caching problem. I'll let you know if problem comes back

steve k.

Edited April 11, 2016 by misfit76

[Michael.J]

I've just updated this plugin with an improvement to how the plugin hooks into the Calendar app.

[mknobbe]

Looking for clarification on  

Quote

Hook adds a link to the discussion topic for events which have them

Does this mean I can link a newly created calendar event to a previously created topic?

[Michael.J]

13 hours ago, mknobbe said:

Does this mean I can link a newly created calendar event to a previously created topic?

No, only events that are newly created or updated will have discussion topics created for them. You can link an existing topic but it would have to be done manually via the database.

[VR6Pete]

Hi @Mike John - How can I configure the date format of the topic title?

My event calendar is set to UK date format, however it keeps posting topics with a US date format.

Cheers.

Pete

[Michael.J]

On 08/08/2016 at 7:43 PM, VR6Pete said:

My event calendar is set to UK date format, however it keeps posting topics with a US date format.

You can but for now this will need to be modified manually. If you open plugins/calendartopics/hooks/{open all 3 php files}

Find:

$tags['%event_date%']	 = $eventDate;

Replace With:

$tags['%event_date%']	 = $eventDate->format( 'd-m-Y' );

Save. You can then modify the month, day and year placements. If you have a particular date format example you want to use, let me know.

[JiigSaaw]

Nice plugin,

I've some suggestions, it could be great when creating an event:

• To disable topic creation / association
• To override topics forums selected (choose a particular forum for an event)
• To delay topic creation (choose between now, at event start or event close)

Thanks you 

[Michael.J]

On 19/08/2016 at 10:14 PM, JiigSaaw said:

I've some suggestions, it could be great when creating an event:

Noted all. I did have a custom request for a few of those but that hasn't really progressed further. But I'll still consider adding them as default features when I begin work on new features again.

[VR6Pete]

Would you please consider adding some control around the date format in the config, too?

[Michael.J]

On 22/08/2016 at 8:25 PM, VR6Pete said:

Would you please consider adding some control around the date format in the config, too?

I'll note it.