This is working very well. The added field queries are very nice. How difficult would it be to able to search one just one calendar at a time with this? If I can do this it will solve a lot of problems for my site.
Thanks

This looks interesting for my ?what?s on? site, I'll take another look tomorrow when I am less screen-stir crazy. :D

This mod is really interesting. I have some suggestions for further improvement and new features:
I don't really like the drop-down menu with the subitems "Calendar search" and "Calender". Can you make this drop-down menu optional with a setting? I think it would be more logical to add the search fields to the "calendar" page/template. You can there also make some export buttons (iCal/Gmail/PDF/...). Now you have to search for "nothing" to be able to export the whole calendar.

Thanks for this mod!

Thanks for the suggestions. The calendar selection drop-down only appears if you have more than one calendar.

The default (when you click calendar search on the navbar menu) is to list all calendar content - you can then immediately click the download buttons to get everything. You can, of course, select a calendar then search and download to get just one calendar content (or one event type, etc).

I would agree that this mod should be part of the vB search system (both in the advanced search page and in the calendar itself). However, the calendar templates are buggy at the moment so I won't be spending time working with them until they are fixed :rolleyes:

OK, I?ve had a chance to install this and I am well pleased with results so far, just a couple of things that would be an improvement if possible.

1 - by default the date range selected is 2008 - 2037; surely it should start with 2010, it?s only a small thing, but is there an easy way of changing it?

2 - the 'search for' button (or renamed 'search now') should be positioned at the end of all the options you need to complete/consider, i.e. after the date range, at the moment you work your way from left to right and when you get to the end you have to go back to the start to press search. Does that make sense? https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

3- and I agree with digibyte about making the drop-down menu optional, if possible.

I've put a link to the calendar search in my dropdown menu for 'What's On & Event Calendars' in my navbar, see here http://doctorwatson.info/calsearch.php, but what I could do with now is removing the vb search box from the navbar as this is going to cause confusion - can anyone point me in the right direction for doing that?

I?ll then add that search to the forum dropdown menu instead.

I've made some changes (v1.06b+) which address some of these issues. The start year defaults to the current year (the drop-down allows earlier years to be selected). The search options have been rearranged to make better use of page space. The calendar selection remains as there is no easy way to handle multiple calendars otherwise

You may find it easier (now a decent calendar search is available :)) to use calendar custom fields to categorise your event entries in a single calendar rather than having multiple calendars? That would get rid of the calendar selection drop-down!

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/01/19.gif Now that's what I call service, shame you're not running IB/Jelsoft at the moment. :D

The search options order seems so much more logical and layout cleaner, great improvement.

I?ll have a think about that, my first thoughts is it maybe not a great idea for my sort of site ? it would work if you knew what you were looking for, i.e. a search for ?Fred?s Flying Circus? brings up one result, and that?s happening 7-days a week for the period it?s listed for.

I did a search for ?Car Boot Sale? for 2009, on the basis the season hasn?t started properly yet this year, and it returns 50+, but recurring ones are only listed for the date range and not the day of the week. So, for example, it would be easier to view a calendar and see what particular ones were on for this Sunday.

Another example would be cinema listings; again if you just wanted to see what?s on this week, rather than a specific film, a search would list everything for the whole year, as you can?t search just for a weekend/week or month.

Just noticed a search for ?car boot sales? doesn?t return results for ?car boot sale?, which is actually how most of them are listed as they are singular events, but I can see people searching by the plural. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

Although, I guess, that?s where custom fields could work, not that I would have a clue how to put them in place, until I got hold of vb4.02 about four weeks ago my only ?web-build? experience was running a standard vb3 installation for a year, with no hacks nor mods installed even!

I am a right numpty, but learning fast, for some reason I thought upgrading and adding a few bells and whistles was going to be easy. http://79.170.40.233/doctorwatson.in...s/facepalm.gif

Attached is an updated version (now included in mod!) that handles recurring events by listing them (and their event dates) if they are occur within the selected year range. I haven't properly tested monthly recurring events as I can't work out how you set them in the calendar (the user interface is seriously deficient in that area :mad:).

Works OK here. The search works on event titles and content, not the calendar title (you can select the calender from the drop-down)

Nice one - that seems to work OK, even for monthly recurring events - I've tested it on a couple of business networking events and Chamber Chat comes up as 'Monthly....First Wednesday' and the First Friday Network comes up as monthly and, as you would expect, on the First Friday - lol.

I agree the user interface for adding events is crap, worst than on vb3, and is causing my users confusion hence I am either having to add events myself or moderate most users adding their own, so I can correct mistakes. :mad:

Actually, there’s a thought, the search returns a ‘contact’ on the right of results, which is the person that added the event but not necessary the organiser/contact for it, could that be made optional, or maybe replaced with the ‘to & from’ times?

That's odd, because a search for car boot sales (with the 's') brings up 3 results, 2 of which doesn't include the 's' in event title nor content, in fact one doesn't even use the words 'sale or sales'.

However, a search for car boot sale returns 7 results and a search for just car boot brings up 8 results - be buggered if I can work out why. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

Similar problems searching for farmers' market but worst because you can add an 's' or not to both the words and it doesn't return those with the apostrophe if you haven't included the apostrophe in the search, e.g. farmers market

ETA - And even worst it shows me up for the misuse of the apostrophe when I've imputed some as 'Farmer's Market'. :o :D

All three entries contain "sales" (one has invisible text with the word in it :confused: - do a browser search on the event page and you will find it)

"car boot" is in "car boot sales" so it will find both (it's a simple character string search , not a word list search).

Are you expecting the search to know that you meant to add an apostrophe in the middle of the search phrase?

The product has been updated in the orginal post above to include the recurring event code. The iCal/Google export also now supports recurring events.