Social Group and Album Enhancements - Social Group Calendars

In short, this modification will allow social groups on your forum have their own calendar area and have upcoming events shown on their group page. Here is a list of features:

1. Upcoming events for a group are shown on the group's page, grouped by day.
2. The group's next event is shown in more detail and can be configured to show the entire event description or be trimmed to a certain number of characters.
3. Members can see events for all the social groups they belong to consolidated into one calendar.
4. The forum home index page can be setup to show upcoming events for social groups.
5. Non-members can see upcoming events for a public group by viewing the group's page. They will not see events for these groups in the calendar view or on the forum homepage, which will help keep the clutter down.
6. Group's that are moderated, invite only, or must join to view content, will not display their upcoming events to non-members. Their events are also secured, so following a link to an event by a non-member will result in a no permissions error.
7. Group owners can optionally allow members to be able to post events, or they can set their group up so that only they can post events.
8. When clicking on the New Event link from the group's page, the event will automatically be assigned to the referring group.
9. When creating a new event from the calendar view, the creator can assign the event to any group he has permissions to post events. These events will appear in a drop down box on the event.
10. Admins and moderators can be set to be excluded from all filtering and permissions. This allows the administrator an unfiltered view of the social group calendar, and the ability to move or edit group's events as needed.
11. Plays nice with Farcaster's Event Attendance v2.0 (RSVP mod).

Installation Instructions (Remember to Mark Installed)
Follow the installation instructions available here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....07&postcount=2

Revision Log

• 0.1.0 BETA - 01/28/09 - Initial Version
• 1.0.0 - 04/05/09 - Bug Fixes and Release (Upgrade Instructions)

Known Issues
None at this time.

[Farcaster]

Very good, Trek. It doesn't look like there are many reported issues, so it will probably be soon. The next release should also have some additional functionality.

[TNCclubman]

Farcaster, this and your Event RSVP mod is 100% getting my vote as ESSENTIAL for the next release of vB 3.8.2...

How can this not be included is beyond me. These features are huge and I shout at the top of my lungs to vB staff.... INCLUDE THESE IN THE NEXT RELEASE!

[theparentpack]

I am looking forward to using this one, once it is out of Beta stage!!! Awesome MOD!

[rainyleaves]

Awesome mod!! Farcaster.

I need some help.
Disappear SocialGroup name at calendar title when I install with 'Farcaster's Event Attendance & vb Event Forums Integration 1.1'.
How do keep SocialGroup name at calendar title?

Please help...

Thanks.

[Farcaster]

This product is now out of BETA as no further issues have been reported and the pending issues are now resolved. Bugs resolved in version 1.0.0 include:

• Holidays appearing after a social event in the social group calendar are erroneously appended with a social group name. - RESOLVED
• First Event description BB code not parsed. - RESOLVED

Thank you for your patience and I hope everyone enjoys the mod.

[ShawnV]

Awesome, I will have to add this to KOWW, thanks Farcaster.

_V

[Farcaster]

I forgot to add upgrade instructions for 0.1.0 to 1.0.0. Actually, there is only one thing to do:

1. Import the file production file product-rah_socialgroup_calendars_1_0_0.xml and be sure to select "Yes" to Allow Override.

[skooby]

This is similar to your older event attendance mod. is it possible to use this mod in the way the other mod worked (by choosing a calendar, rather than a social calendar).

[Farcaster]

Skooby - not currently.

[Benj]

farcaster this is awesome !