Event Calendar Pro

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1/1/2009 9:24:54 AM
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Event Calendar Pro

I am trying to install Event Calendar Pro. Whats the deal with web.config. Does the one that comes with Event Calendar Pro have to be merged with the existing one  ?

 

Neil

1/1/2009 9:29:38 AM
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Hi Neil,

No, that is a packaging error, the Web.config and Default.aspx files should not have been included in the Event Calendar Pro package.

Thanks for asking and letting me know about this. You are the first to purchase since I uploaded the current package. I will clean that up and upload it again, but you can safely delete those from your copy of the package, then you should be able to copy up the files without overwriting anything.

And thanks for your purchase, my first customer of 2009!

Best,

Joe

1/1/2009 9:30:44 AM
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In fact please hold off on installing I just noticed there are files in the bin folder also not needed. I'll prepare you a correct package right away and send it to you.

Best,

Joe

1/1/2009 10:27:11 AM
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ok - its installed and working - but uses (GMT - 5.00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) rather than the timezone the site is set for (GMT)

There appears to be 3 settings that are relevent:-

TimeZoneSetting
AdaptToUserTimeZoneSetting
ShowTimeZoneLabelSetting
 

How do these function - also trying to change Timezone setting causes the following server error:

 'ddControlType' has a SelectedValue which is invalid because it does not exist in the list of items.
Parameter name: value
 

Regards

 

Neil

1/1/2009 10:46:10 AM
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Dates are stored in the db as UTC aka GMT, but can be rendered in the UI either as a specific time zone as selected in the module settings or if you check adapt to user time zone then it will adapt to the site default for unauthenticated users or the user preference for authenticated users. The label setting just determines whether a label is shown indicating what time zone it is showing, which eliminates any ambiguity.

Site time zone is specified in Web.config by setting the offset vs the server timezone, as documented in Time Zone Localization. Note that you can find out what time zone the server is configured for under Administration Menu > System Information.

I'm not able to produce the error you mention. Please try to produce the same error on the demo site and let me know if there are steps to produce it that are repeatable. I assume you did visit /Setup/Default.aspx after installing it. I might try touching the Web.config to recycle the app and see if that solves it, or uploading the files again and visit Setup/Default.aspx again in case they didn't all make it if the problem persists.

Best,

Joe

1/1/2009 12:16:32 PM
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Site Time for anonymous users is already set in web.config to GMT. and  the server shows itself to be in GMT

http://dev.barlestone.com/Admin/ServerInformation.aspx

On the demo site if I set mysef to be in GMT - everything in Event Calendar Pro still shows itself to be (GMT - 5.00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

I have also tried changing both AdaptToUserTimeZoneSetting and ShowTimeZoneLabelSetting but they appear to have no effect - I cant try these in the demo site as Feature Installation/configuration is not available.
 

Yes i did rerun setup and I have restarted he site as well - feel free to login to my site if it helps

 

Regards

 

Neil

1/1/2009 12:52:10 PM
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Hi Neil,

I think I understand what you are doing now as you say on my demo site that:

Feature Installation/configuration is not available

Configuration settings made there only set default values that will be used when a new instance of a feature is added to a page, it will not affect instances already on a page. If you visit the page that has your event calendar pro on it then click the gear icon next to the title of the calendar you will see the instance specific settings and there you should be able to specify the time zone.

Now that I understand what you were trying to do I am able to produce the error you mentioned and will look into fixing that asap so its fixed in the next release. It looks like a mojoportal bug rather than a bug in Event Calendar Pro. Admittedly I rarely use those feature configuration pages, as those settings also come from config files, so I typically have just made changes to the config file and then visit /Setup/Default.aspx also updates the default settings in the db based on the config file. In fact if you were to change a default setting in that page without changing the corresponding feature config file, then visiting the setup page will restore the setting from the config file. The web page for managing those settings were there before we had the installation system but I kept it because it makes it easier fopr developers to configure their custom features without having to learn about the setup system. So its mainly used for features that don't have config files, but all the mojoPortal features do have the config files.

Hope that makes sense.

Best,

Joe

ps Was not able to login to your site, but if you continue to have problems let me know and I'll contact you by emaill for login info.

1/1/2009 12:56:09 PM
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ps, in case you didn't see this video about using the Event Calendar Pro, thought I'd post the link here as it has some info about settings like Time Zone.

Best,

Joe

1/1/2009 1:34:53 PM
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thanks - i understand it better now

 

regards

neil 

1/1/2009 2:11:31 PM
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One last problem - I am not getting the html control so I can add a description - either on my site or your demo site - is this a bug or am i missing something
 

1/1/2009 2:16:58 PM
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I just reset the demo site content, not sure if I was doing that while you were using it or if that affected you at the time when you were trying this. The editors are working for me so I suspect some issue with your browser. I would close all tabs and visit google, then clear the browser cache of temporary internet content, then try your site again. Reason to visit google is because sometime it won't clear the cache for pages that you are currently on.

If the problem persists please try a different machine or browser to confirm it as a browser specific problem. For example if using Firefox try IE or vice versa to narrow down the problem.

Hope it helps,

Joe

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