Pro calendar RSS feed for multiday events

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1/23/2013 12:36:17 AM
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Pro calendar RSS feed for multiday events

The problem with the pro calendar RSS feed is that it only shows the start date on multi-day events. Is there some clever date string that will solve this? Else this strikes me as a bug
1/23/2013 7:28:41 AM
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Re: Pro calendar RSS feed for multiday events

Hi,

The Feed Manager feature in mojoPortal is what you are talking about, but the Calendar view in Feed Manager does not support rendering multi day events spanned across days. Only the calendar actually built in to Event Calendar Pro has that ability. The Feed Manager can consume the feed from Event Calendar Pro but it cannot render the events spanning across days.

Also RSS feeds also don't have a separate field for end date per se. RSS specification is only expecting a single date pubDate. Even though we provide an RSS feed for events, RSS was really designed for news and blog feeds rather than event publishing.

Hope that helps,

Joe

1/23/2013 8:06:12 AM
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Re: Pro calendar RSS feed for multiday events

Just a quick follow up. I do realize that this answer is not very satisfactory in that it does not provide you a way to do what you are trying to do. I can say that I plan some future enhancements to Event Calendar Pro to allow publishing different views of a calendar on different pages, but I can't make any specific promise on a delivery date for those improvements.

Basically what I'm envisioning is making some of those views like Month View and List View into separate features that can be put on any page and then in settings choose a specific instance of Event Calendar Pro to pull the data from. But since this would bypass the page security of the real page that contains the Event Calendar Pro instance, there will have to be a setting at the instance level whether to allow sharing its data with other view instances so that if you have it on a secure page protected by roles you can prevent a specific instance from being used in other views on other pages.

Best,

Joe

1/23/2013 11:02:30 AM
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Re: Pro calendar RSS feed for multiday events

I see, it is a question of the fields in the RSS What we want is a list of upcoming events in the left column on the home page and a few other pages. So the list view only. The RSS feed appears to be the only way of,picking up that information from the pro calendar. How about a content type that displays the event calendar as a read only list? The event list we created with the RSS feed has only the start dates, so we may have to do this manually which would be annoying or live with start date only
5/1/2013 10:16:21 AM
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Re: Pro calendar RSS feed for multiday events

Hi,

fyi, in the latest release of Event Calendar Pro we added separate Calendar View and List View features that enable you to put a calendar or list view on a different CMS page than the one that contains the instance of event Calendar Pro. From the settings of the instance you have to check a box to enable its data to be used that way and then it will show up in a dropdown list as an available data source in the calendar or list view features.

So this should allow you to put a calendar view (or list view) on your home page that pulls data from the event calendar pro on another page and yet supports events that span across days.

Hope that helps,

Joe

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