[plugin] [ORPHAN] zem_event [flexible integrated event management]

squaredeye · 2007-01-28 23:03:37

2_brain wrote:

one problem: when i create a new article, in the forms of the event section remain the words of the past article/event. So if i forgot to cancel them i re-publish the event

the issue has been noted and is being looked at, thanks.

one request: it’s possible to create event don’t link to an article?

Can you give me an example? All events are tied to articles, but the output can change if that’s what you’re looking for.

nardo wrote:

what was the thinking behind the ‘duplicate’ event name and description? i.e. the article & the event can have different names & bodies not a critique, just curious!

Good question :). The primary reason was that we wanted there to be an available flexibility since events would be “tied” to articles. Sometimes one might want an event to appear “in” an article, other times, one might want an event to stand alone. You can affect the difference through different forms.

Rsiletti,
Thank you for helping me with answers, its much appreciated.

naoj77 · 2007-01-29 14:23:49

matt

I’m newbie. congratulations for the plugin. How can I make a RSS output with your plugin, for the even list, in order by de date of event, not for the publicated date, not for the articles??

thanks

Joan

squaredeye · 2007-01-29 14:30:13

naoj77,
Can you describe your scenario? I’m not sure the plugin will do what you are asking without further development.

All,
One thought here, since documentation is lacking, is to put up some more funds for full documentation from Team Textpattern? Would anybody be in favor of that?

M

maniqui · 2007-01-29 14:52:27

Hi Matthew,
haven’t tested this yet, but sure this plug-in rocks. This is a truly original TeamTextpattern plug-in!

I have two questions:

could be the output formatted as an hCalendar microformat?
what would you/TeamTexpattern list as the differences/features over Jufemaiz’s jmc_event_manager?

Thanks.

Last edited by maniqui (2007-01-29 14:53:09)

squaredeye · 2007-01-29 15:01:08

Manaqui,

I have two questions: could be the output formatted as an hCalendar microformat?

yes. I don’t have time to work out how though :). I would LOVE if someone took this on. I have spent a great deal of time working with Alex on this one, and now need to focus elsewhere. I hope that as a ‘gift’ this plugin can really be picked up by the community.

what would you/TeamTexpattern list as the differences/features over Jufemaiz’s jmc_event_manager?

Good question. I think the main differences are:

User interface (there is more)
Event Categories (separate from article categories)
No need to use custom fields (these can be used for article specific uses)
RSS feed output (unique)
There are many small differences, which I won’t be able to say for sure since I’ve never used Juf.‘s plugin, but I suspect the above to be the main differences from reading throught that forum post.

Juf. began working on his plugin during the development of this one, and it has become more robust in the process, perhaps one will suit some users and the other, others…?

Matthew

naoj77 · 2007-01-29 15:57:02

ma_smith dijo:

naoj77,
Can you describe your scenario? I’m not sure the plugin will do what you are asking without further development.”

I’m a webmaster of a chorus association in Barcelona, wich contain 5 diferent chorus.
I want to make a web page of THE association, where I extract information of the web pages of the different chorus via rss, of the diferents TXP installs

tanks

and sorry for my bad english

Joan

squaredeye · 2007-01-29 16:03:41

naoj77,
You can get the rss feed the way you would any other feed, by grabbing it from your “events” section for instance then use something like bit_rss plugin (sorry no time to find link :) to pull it into another txp install.

M

naoj77 · 2007-01-29 16:08:54

ma_smith dijo:

naoj77,
You can get the rss feed the way you would any other feed, by grabbing it from your “events” section for instance then use something like bit_rss plugin (sorry no time to find link :) to pull it into another txp install.

M

Yes, but the feed rss shows the information by order of the date of publication and not for the date of the event, which is the one that I want..

the example is in http://www.webmusicae.com/acm/txp/agenda

thanks a lot

squaredeye · 2007-01-29 16:12:05

naoj77,
I’d guess this is added functionality, I will ask TeamTextpattern, but if you are truly in need of it, email me and let me know how much you’re willing to pay for the functionality and I’ll check with Team Textpattern about adding it.

zem · 2007-01-30 21:41:02

2b: you could create a special section for your event articles (called, say, ‘event’), and turn off all the search/feed/on front page settings for that section. Use a special template for that section with the appropriate zem_event tags, and just leave out most of the article title/excerpt/body tags.

squaredeye · 2007-01-31 14:03:15

Some of you have written about fields being autocompleted. Alex and I are both reluctant to believe that this is due to the plugin, though anything is possible, and would suggest you do several things as we try to track this down.

1) please tell us the browser/build you are using
2) look at the extensions / add ons for the browser you are using
3) look at your overall system preferences in terms of auto-completion and assess if you have anything of that nature turned on
4) observe other types of forms that might keep their data.
5) let us know which specific fields retain their data (is it all of them?, just the event fields?)
6) which host/type of server PHP/MYSQL set up are you running.
7) and anything else you can think of that might mess with this.

Thx.

Matthew

jstubbs · 2007-01-31 19:18:10

Thanks for this plugin. It takes a while to get the hang of, but seems like a great addition!

One quick question: How does one get the mini-calendar to work properly? The example tags on your link page:
http://txp.squaredeye.com/zem_event_examples/mini-calendar
only outputs the calendar, but not a next/prev arrow like on your example page. How to get that outputted?

squaredeye · 2007-01-31 20:16:21

jstubbs,
:) thanks for pointing that out.

the <txp:zem_event_calendar_nav class="minical_nav"/> works on both large and small calendars as well as the event list.

Matthew

jstubbs · 2007-01-31 20:31:30

Eh thanks Mathew! The plugin is clearly really good but its not very clear how to do things, and all the available tags are not listed…..Alex’s site does not give much detail either. The TextBook entries are very helpful. Will the help text in the plugin be added, or is this a question of a donation to develop the plugin further?

Back to my previous post – I have this now in a sidebar:

<div class=“small box”>
<h2>mini calendar</h2>
<txp:zem_event_calendar_nav class=“minical_nav”/>
<txp:zem_event_mini_calendar />
</div>

The next/prev arrow works fine to go through the months, but my event does not show up on the date in question (5 Feb) in the calendar itself. On your example the date of the event is bold/blue with a grey BG. I missed something??

squaredeye · 2007-01-31 20:37:56

jstubbs wrote:

The plugin is clearly really good but its not very clear how to do things, and all the available tags are not listed…..Alex’s site does not give much detail either. The TextBook entries are very helpful. Will the help text in the plugin be added, or is this a question of a donation to develop the plugin further?

I’m sure Alex would write some great documentation if folks were willing to pay for it. There were several LARGE donors for this project who put up $300-1000 each. Those of us who already donated are kinda spent, so we won’t be able to add more. If you’d like to see some documentation and examples, I’m sure it could be done for about $100-200? (assuming similar rates for documentation as coding?)

I missed something??

Probably. Have you used my styling from that page? The plugin only gives you the hooks for you to style it. Check your source code and go from there.

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