Year View in Event Calendar Pro

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2/3/2009 2:39:25 PM
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Year View in Event Calendar Pro

Two people I have shown my development site to have both commented that a Year view would be really useful in Event Calendar Pro.

Neil

2/4/2009 7:50:20 AM
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Re: Year View in Event Calendar Pro

I will keep that in mind for a future improvement. I guess the year view would not show events but just would be a navigation screen showing a mini calendar for each month. This is what the Yahoo calendar year view does, google calendar doesn't have a year view.

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Joe

2/4/2009 10:35:53 AM
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Re: Year View in Event Calendar Pro

A couple of more suggestions -

1. Add a Suggest an Event feature

2. Add event Categories - and allow what is displayed to be filtered by the categories.

I have implemented it on dev.bhpc.org and have many type of events listed - it would be nice for people to just select the type of event - for example races - so they can just see the races, and someone else to be able to look at all the events in a month

 

Neil

2/4/2009 12:23:37 PM
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Re: Year View in Event Calendar Pro

Its on the road map to implement a Content Tagging/Category feature into the core of mojoPortal. Once that is done I will integrate it into Event Calendar Pro to allow tagging/categorizing events and the ability to browse by tag/category. I will also integrate it into other features like WebStore so products can be browsed by category.

Can you elaborate more about what situation or use case "Suggest and Event" would support, it seems like it would be a seldom used feature unless there is some significant use case I'm not thinking of.

One could easily have a suggestion box currently using the Contact Form or Form Wizard Pro and use that for suggesting events.

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Joe

2/4/2009 12:36:09 PM
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Re: Year View in Event Calendar Pro

Thats exactly what I have done - created a link that goes to a contact page that allows some to suggest an event to be added to a calender. It depends on the type of site but certainly in most community or club sites it would be useful if integrated into the control itself.

Good news about the Categories - that will really make the feature more useful.

Regards

 

Neil

7/7/2011 11:11:24 AM
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Re: Year View in Event Calendar Pro

Hi Joe,

It is nice to show the year view to let people know what happen on whole year. For instance, we like to see roughly how many days the hotel are booked through the year view calendar.  Also you only need to color the dates which have some events. It do not need to show the details on year view. People can see the details by clicking specific date. I am planning to buy the Event Calendar Pro.

Thanks

Jesse Wang

 

 

 

7/7/2011 11:37:54 AM
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Hi Jesse,

We might make a year view at some point but I can't promise it to happen very soon just because of other things we are working on. I've got an item in our project tracker for "Year View" but have not got to it yet. To me that is kind of a reporting scenario, rather than show individual events it would be more like showing aggregate numbers of events grouped by week or month or day and as you say they could click through to get to the detail.

I don't really see Event Calendar Pro as a solution for booking hotel rooms, at some point I plan another product for scheduling resources rather than events, where resources could be defined as anything from hotel rooms to equipment rentals or appointments with people. Event Calendar Pro is really only targeting event type use cases, though of course if you find it suitable for other purposes that is fine with me, but I didn't develop it with those other use cases in mind. I would build it differently for those kind of scenarios like hotel room booking.

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Joe

7/7/2011 11:53:46 AM
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Re: Year View in Event Calendar Pro

Joe,

Do you have any schedule when you can build that hotel booking module?

Thx

Jesse

 

 

7/7/2011 12:29:35 PM
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Re: Year View in Event Calendar Pro

Hi Jesse,

No, I'm not sure when I will get to that but it won't be within the next few months and it may be next year before I can get to it. 

I've got something big I'm working on right now that is almost finished and I will be announcing sometime this month but keeping it quiet for the moment. After that I am making web farm support and Windows Azure support my top priority and that may take several months to complete. I'm always pulled in many directions and sometimes I set out to work on something but end up working on other things, so it is very hard for me to estimate when I will get to things beyond what I'm working on in the immediate future. And of course I'm constantly also needing to improve the free core feature set of mojoPortal as well as my add on products.

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Joe

7/13/2011 8:21:14 AM
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Hi Joe,

Any update on implementing an 'Event Category' feature for the Event Calendar Pro?

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John

7/13/2011 9:19:22 AM
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Re: Year View in Event Calendar Pro

Event Calendar Pro will get categories after we build the category sub system in mojoPortal. Its been on the road map for quite a while but still not sure when I will get to it. Next on my priority list is web farm support which may take a month or so to complete, until that is done most likely only small low hanging fruit kinds of other things will be worked on. But once web farm support is done then categories will be one of the higher priorities.

Best,

Joe

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