WOOT. GO EVERCRAFT.

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I really wish there were some more features to this too, like the ability to post in the same forum without making it an event. =D

This is much better now but I still get an error page when I try to delete unlinked threads

Bumpdigity, whats the deal with the TIMESTAMPS? ANY WORD.

interesting hack. I love it!
Just wish there was a way to simplify the thread name without the crazy timestamp etc

hi sorry I haven't been up to much on this of late.

With the run up to christmas, work and family is taking up most of my time, and unfortunatly i'm just not getting the time to look at this at the moment.

I realise that lots of people are waiting for updates on this, and I will do my best to get some fixes in when I can. I do use this plugin myself, so it is also a benefit to my forum users and myself to fix these too!

If I don't get round to sorting anything this side of the holidays, then I wish you all a happy holiday! :)

I've just gone through the posts and added any new bugs to the bug list so that should be uptodate now.

I think that the: Intergration with the event attendance plugin, is the most importan add-on for this hack, and i hope it can be added anytime soon:)

i think im having a problem somehwere.. where are the settings at ? i dont see no changes at all

FYI..

This

"For some reason dates in the forum "Upcoming Events" box aren't showing for guests or registered users."

Should be

"Ranged dates in the forum "Upcoming Events" box aren't showing"

Agreed 100%. Great hack, but I'm reluctant to install because the Event Attendance is really important to me...

Well, I can't use this yet, but I tipped anyway. Thanks again for taking this up, and looking forward to seeing it progress!

cheers, I edited the bug details.

Thankyou, that is very kind. :)

Forgot to check:

I am assuming that most of my users will try to navigate to the calendar(s) through the links on the forumhome page, since that is what they see first. So based on this I would prefer that when users click the forum for which the calendar corresponds, that they are actually taken to the calendar display rather than to forumdisplay.php. Then of course, when they click an individual event link, they are taken to showthread.php.

Is this feasible via a tweak, or can it be added to the request pile?

I agree with that. I think thats what my people want to.

This plugin is very important to me, I know Christmas is two days away, just curious if we can except something after the holiday but before mid Jan say before the 15th?

One other question is there a way to change the format of how thread titles are created?

I'd like to show the DATE first so I can setup the forum to arrange events by TITLE becuase right now its just an unorganized mess.

I realise this plugin is important to alot of people, and thats the reason I took this up, so hopefully I can keep it going.

However i'm doing this in my own time, and with no real benefit to myself. Im not saying that to try and fish money, so please dont go and randomly donate, I don't want that.

All im saying is, I will work on this when I can, but i'm not going to start promising things, and start working to "deadlines". My current job is busy enough, and very important to me. I deal with enough deadlines and things, without having to worry about finishing this to a certain date.

So no, you can't expect anything by the 15th, because I can't, or won't promise anything. But I hope I can have something to show for the 15th. We'll just have to see.

On a side note, the arranging of the titles (i.e date, name etc), seems to be one of the most requested things. Its on the feature list, and is something that is definetly at the top of my priorities for this. Hopefully I can add something like that soon.
I was thinking about how it could work as an option in the adminCP. Its a bit limited to yes/no, or a textfield. It could be much better, by creating a custom options page (and it could list options for individual forums) but that would make it a hack, and as such isnt what I want todo.

I was thinking maybe just a simple replace expression like:

%1 = Title
%2 = Time
%3 = Date

Then in the text field, you can enter any combination:

%1 : %2 : %3
%3 - %1
%1 [%3 - %2]

etc. I think you get the idea. What do people think of that? I think it would make it quite flexible then, which I think is the key to this. The more customisation the better.

Anyways, let me know what you think of that, Merry Christmas etc, and will speak to you all in the New Year and hopefully we can get some stuff rolling with this. Take care.

Clear enough and thnx sir for sharing your work here :)

Merry christmas to u too and happy new year :)

I noticed that when it creates the thread, the only option in the thread is to start a new thread not post a reply, and if you click new thread it takes you to new event on the calendar not a new thread..

How can this be fixed?

Fixed?

Uhh thats the way its supposed to work. :rolleyes:

Evercraft - thanks for the update, and for all your hard work. just curious - will you be looking into getting it to work with the Event Attendance hack? that would be super.

thanks again!

Any updates on when variables will be made for topic structure???
Or atleast give us a quick rundown of how to change it around..

I need it like this:

[Date] Topic Title [Custom #1] [Custom #2]

I attempted to change the title by hand, no luck ^^; No change at all, so I must be in the wrong place >.>;

The replace expressions would be great, also have configurable date() formats in the vB options, would be great for the standard date format(to use something other than your forums vB date format...).

I've had to change a few of my templates to include an e=$event[eventid] on the links to get them to work (small month for instance), just wondering what the importance of this is as the old mod (endquote) didnt seem to rely on this.

Well, thanks for the work, and I, as well as others will patently wait for more quality work ^^;

There is a 3.5.3 security fix which touches calendar.php. Not sure how this might affect this mod (or the previous version).

Edit: I upgraded my test site to 3.5.3 (full option). I am running endquote's July version of the Event Forums. I got this error when I tried to edit an event I had just created:

I forget, is this also a known bug for the new version of vB Event Forums?

Related to my previous post, I am curious to know which version of this mod might be best to use?

you have the answer in this quote: you use the OLD and BUGGED version of the hack... so why ask ?? install this stable version and you will see...

... read the documentation, and you'll see...

really, if you don't understand this and think it's a bug, you don't have to install this hack because you did not read the documentation and you don't know what it is used for...

the goal of this hack is to transform your forum into a Events/Calendar machine... no threads...

Thanks for the reply and, well, yes that possibility did occur to me. I was just wary of the listed bugs and uncertain if any were new since the older version.

So it seems to be working fairly well, good work Evercraft. Unfortunately I just created an event and while visible on the calendar, it does not show up as a thread despite having uninstalled the old version and having a correct mapping. This is exactly why I posted my question above; didn't have this issue earlier today.

glad the new version is working better :)

If there is an error during the thread creation, then it doesnt get created. Unfortunatly it doesn't currently show an error or anything to the user.

One example, which I have above in the bug list, is if the event description text isnt over the min char limit (set in vboptions), then the thread wont be created, but the event will be as normal.

Evercraft, do u think that the feature of Intergration with the event attendance plugin, will be included soon?

Just asking, waiting for this :)

Amen :)

Well, I probably wouldn't call this 'better' since that feature worked before, but thanks for the info. I'll test it some more to see if I can stumble across the cause.

*Installed* and working perfectly on 2 forums.

Anyone figure out how to code in the dates for ranged events to the titles and "upcoming events" area?

Its causing big issues for our forums for people posting events that span a few days.

Hi Evercraft and everyone!

When a user post an event (on calendar), this plugin will also create a new thread on the corresponding forum. Is it possible to let the calendar show the [Manage Attachment] option of the forum and upload the file to the corresponding forum when creating an event?

Thank you!
CK

Would love to install this hack but will wait till it's Gold

I'm still waiting to, I'm willing to pay for this.

yeah, this hack will rock.