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Re: Calendar
« Reply #15, on November 15th, 2012, 09:16 PM »
RSVP? Can anyone respond or are the RSVPs sent out by the OP?
In case they have to change?

But yes that sounds good, thanks :)

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #16, on November 15th, 2012, 09:19 PM »
I don't see why it couldn't be either way - either have it as 'anyone can attend' or 'only these people can attend'. I was using RSVP as sort of an umbrella term for both.
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Re: Calendar
« Reply #17, on November 15th, 2012, 10:11 PM »
Ah. So does "people who've actually responded to the RSVP" mean people who've posted in the thread? Because some will post to say "Sorry I cannot make this one".

Like I say it's just a fanciful idea, and any calendar is better than none :)

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #18, on November 15th, 2012, 10:31 PM »
No... people who've responded is people who've clicked 'Yes, I'm coming', 'No, I'm not coming' or 'I'm not sure yet', as in they've actively made some action to indicate interest.

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #19, on November 16th, 2012, 12:07 AM »
Just want to make sure I'm reading this correctly.
Open invitation: anyone can register
Private invitation: only those individuals invited by the OP

Will there be an option for the OP to invite an entire group?
Can the OP add additional "event managers"?
Stick a fork in it SMF

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #20, on November 16th, 2012, 12:18 AM »
Seems that's the most logical way to handle it (in all respects)

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #21, on November 16th, 2012, 03:31 AM »
Quote from Arantor on November 15th, 2012, 03:26 AM
Filter *what* by month? You can view the calendar by month...
Sorry, should have made it clearer. On the Admin Page - where Public Holidays are added and removed, have an option to filter all the defined Public Holidays by the month - i.e. 'all holidays for February'. This would make it much easier to maintain and remove dates that are no longer necessary (i.e. holidays for fixed dates in past years).

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #22, on November 16th, 2012, 03:39 AM »
It really isn't going to happen for the preset holidays as per the above. Adding that level of complexity to outweigh the very very small amount of code for the presets isn't worth the effort. Especially since they're not in the database and the only thing would be to edit the code of the plugin to remove the definitions.

Adding pruning for custom events... I'm not sure that's really necessary. If the admin cares enough to prune the events they added themselves, that's up to them. But people do go back and look through previous months in the calendar - doing the pruning you're suggesting pretty much eliminates anything before the previous month or so.

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #23, on November 16th, 2012, 04:01 AM »
Quote from Arantor on November 15th, 2012, 05:04 AM
Just going to leave this here :whistle:
Great idea, I like it! However this raises an issue and I have a suggestion also.
By including dates such as "Independence Day", which country's Independence Day are you meaning - America's? Tanzania's? There's a boat-load of them (and some countries have more than one!). This really only becomes an issue, albeit fairly minor, for those of us who run Forum sites aimed at visitors and expatriate residents of a foreign country who often need to be reminded of those days that banks, government offices and businesses will be closed.
Leading on from that, may I suggest that you make a clear distinction between "Public Holidays" and "Notable Days". SMF currently bundles these together which I think is wrong. For example, I believe it's important to remind people of Armistice Day but nowhere is it a Public Holiday; it is, I suggest, a Notable Day.

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #24, on November 16th, 2012, 04:12 AM »
To be brutally honest, getting into making such a distinction is out of the scope of the plugin. The point of the UI was mostly to build a structure around having such things, making things like language specific packs is deliberately kept out of scope. I wasn't concentrating in figuring out whether or not I should keep individual days or not, just that the system allowed for it to be easy.

SMF bundles them together; it has little choice. I have a bit more choice but ultimately the way to do it is to make language/country packs of holidays and have a collection of very basic stuff in the core - building the UI above is merely a transition to that.

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #25, on November 16th, 2012, 05:57 AM »
Sounds good to me Arantor :eheh:

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #26, on November 16th, 2012, 07:09 AM »
Quote from Arantor on November 15th, 2012, 10:31 PM
No... people who've responded is people who've clicked 'Yes, I'm coming', 'No, I'm not coming' or 'I'm not sure yet', as in they've actively made some action to indicate interest.
Sounds perfect, thanks.

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #27, on November 16th, 2012, 07:33 AM »
I think a calendar could work for some niches. Take for example my Skywarn forum. Skywarn (nationwide) has annual training date, I use the calendar for that forum to allow members and staff to post the training dates. I actually have members that will only check my forum for the training dates instead of their local NWS forecasting site.

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #28, on November 16th, 2012, 04:18 PM »
Of course it could work... which is why one is currently under development :P

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #29, on November 16th, 2012, 09:36 PM »
Considering there is a day for just about everything I could easily see holidays not being included at all and letting admins add "events" for what ever holidays are important to their user base. Lang packs are not a bad idea and I do like that select screen.

Maybe at a later date someone could build a Holiday Plugin that requires the Calendar plug-in, they could be stored in the DB easy to add/remove/hide what ever holidays make an easy xml import for different country holidays.
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