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spoogs

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #45, on November 18th, 2012, 09:31 PM »
Simple enough.
I was going off an event we have coming up where the address is a venue

Opium @ HardRock
adress
city, state zip

and would be nice to enter all of that but its no big deal it cal always be detailed in the event description any
Stick a fork in it SMF

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #46, on November 18th, 2012, 09:40 PM »
And therein lies the other matter - the event won't have a description unless it's linked to a thread, then the thread contains the bigger stuff.

Hence the inclination perhaps to move it out of being a thread. But before I get into that, I'd much prefer to involve anyone else who might actually use the calendar...
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spoogs

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #47, on November 18th, 2012, 10:06 PM »
What type of info were you going to provide in the faked up board?

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #48, on November 18th, 2012, 11:49 PM »
I don't know yet, this is more a thing in progress.

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #49, on November 19th, 2012, 01:21 AM »
I see, I assumed it was going to be somewhat detailed.... ie:
Name
Date/time
Location
Description
Attendees

Well that sort of thing.

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #50, on November 19th, 2012, 01:33 AM »
Never assume :P

I'm very very reluctant to generate more fields, if I'm going to uproot how the calendar works. See, description covers the whole notion of having the main calendar item instead of a thread...

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #51, on November 19th, 2012, 04:34 AM »
Quote from Arantor on November 19th, 2012, 01:33 AM
Never assume :P
Lol true enough
Quote from Arantor on November 19th, 2012, 01:33 AM
I'm very very reluctant to generate more fields, if I'm going to uproot how the calendar works. See, description covers the whole notion of having the main calendar item instead of a thread...
Indeed go the way you see best :thanks: until I actually use it in practice I'm just brain storming

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #52, on November 19th, 2012, 05:25 AM »
Quote
Never assume :P
Because when you assume, you're always wrong. :P

Oh, wait, that was pessimistic...
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Re: Calendar
« Reply #53, on November 19th, 2012, 06:28 AM »
Because you don't want to make an ass of u and me.
Re: Calendar
« Reply #54, on November 26th, 2012, 03:53 AM »
So, I spent some time looking at what IPB does. I see it as the real competition to Wedge, not so much competing with SMF or the other free systems. I figure if it's what people are willing to pay for, I want to see what it demands.

I gotta say, I'm inclined to take the road they did - there's no calendar board, no linked topics or anything, you just have the calendar as an item that people can browse - and there's an RSS feed for it too.

They also provide abilities like restricting who can see individual events, plus a per-day view (as opposed to SMF/Wedge which currently only offer month/week views, because it can't handle times on events, there's no need for a per-day view), plus the ability to support multiple calendars rather than just one, though I'm honestly not sure how useful that part is.

It does make me seriously wonder how much of the calendar is worth salvaging.

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #55, on January 14th, 2013, 06:18 PM »
Quote from Arantor on November 14th, 2012, 12:53 AM
OK, OK, don't get your hopes up. It's NOT going back in the core. NO.

However, while I let other things simmer until they're done, I'm curious to hear what people would like to see in the calendar.
events, sometime some post is event is good if is possible put events and ors sync with another calendar as facebook calendars or google calendar

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #56, on January 14th, 2013, 06:25 PM »
I love how people don't read the topic where I explain what the calendar will and will not do.

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #57, on January 14th, 2013, 11:30 PM »
I for one would need a calendar, and preferably link event dates to posts. Also events spanning multiple days would be super. The idea to make it into a plugin is a cool idea as not everyone needs it for their forum.

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #58, on January 14th, 2013, 11:31 PM »
Well, yeah, a calendar is a given. Why the need to link event dates to posts? Why not just allow people to have the ability to comment on events?

Even SMF's should be able to span multiple days...

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Re: Calendar
« Reply #59, on January 14th, 2013, 11:34 PM »
Actually I see it the other way around :eheh: I can post more info in the post than the message in the calendar, thus maximizing exposure for the event.

SMF's can span multiple days :)
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