Calendar Enhancements - Farcaster's Event Attendance v2

This modification will allow your members to RSVP to events on the vBulletin calendar. By default, members can respond "Yes," "No," or "Maybe," as to whether or not they will be able to attend an event, but you can modify or add to the list of responses members are presented with as you desire. Below are a list of features with new features in version 2.0 highlighted.

• Specify some or all of your calendars to use the RSVP system.
• Set whether an event accepts RSVPs during event creation / edit.
• Allow members to specify if they will be bringing a guest.
• Event owners can set the maximum number of guests each member may bring.
• Events can be set to close RSVPs on the day of the event or before.
• RSVP comments (up to 65k character limit, configurable)
• Timestamped RSVPs
• Moderators and event owners can remove member RSVPs from events.
• Attendance list can be set to display member avatars.
• Improved handling of differing timezones and daylight saving times.
• Configurable Response options. You aren't stuck with Yes, No, Maybe. You can setup whatever responses you want.
• When events are updated, RSVPs will not be deleted unless the event moved to a different day, or the end date of a ranged or recurring event was shortened. Changing the recurring options will still automatically delete the associated RSVPs.
• The ability to suppress RSVP deletions on event update entirely, if you wish, although this isn't recommended.
• You can now specify a maximum number of attendees for an event. After the maximum is reached, you can configure members to either receive an error or have their response (RSVP) automatically changed to something else. This could be used to create a wait-list bucket, for instance. There won't be any automated system to move members from the wait-list if a space becomes available in this revision, however.
• The time stamp on the RSVP is no longer changed unless the member when the member simply updates his comments. The date will only be changed if the member changes from one response to another (i.e. Yes to No).

Please be aware that the following modifications currently WILL NOT work with this revision until they have been updated:

Farcaster's Event Attendance & vb Event Forums Integration
Farcaster's Event Attendance: Email Add-On

Requirements
vBulletin v3.6.x or higher.

Upgrade Instructions:
Please note that version 2.0.0 of this modification has changed the way the event times are determine for ranged and recurring events. You may "loose" some RSVPs on events as they will no longer be visible.

- 1 xml upload

1. Use the Product Manager to import the product file product-rah_calendar_rsvp_2_0_1.xml. Be sure to ALLOW OVERWRITE.

Installation Instructions
- 1 XML upload
- 1 template modification

1. Use the Product Manager to import the product file product-rah_calendar_rsvp_2_0_1.xml
2. Use the Style Manager to find and edit your calendar_showeventsbit:

Near the bottom of the calendar_showeventsbit, find:

     </form>

Below that add:

     $rsvp_form

That?s it. You should now configure any changes to the default options you like.

[stwilson]

Originally Posted by tmc

I'll have to be honest and say I'm rather displeased. Even though I have not heard back yet from Evercraft, Farcaster feels he should still retain control over the Integration of the two mods. While I have no problems with collaboration this would either:

1. Require me to coach Farcaster on every single change I've made to BOTH plugins (This mod will never be able to work with the changes I've made to Event Forums, as is).

or 2. Send him the integration plugin in its entirety so he can release it as his own.

So, I'm afraid to say if I even do hear back from Evercraft, I may have to incorporate my own RSVP plugins directly into the Event Forums product. And what's worse is since I've already shared with him most of my original ideas for this mod, I would be accused of copying if both products were to have the same additions. So I would be discouraged from even bothering to release anything at all, and then we're back to where we started.

(Which was me simply redoing both mods in a personal capacity, since they both cause so many problems when working in tandem.)

And on that note I would highly suggest not considering offering integration anymore with the old Event Forums, Farcaster. The mod actually goes back further than Evercraft's involvement, back to 3.5 and maybe even older, and therefore is coded accordingly. I've changed so much at this point, that I don't even remember if everything is sanitized in the correct fashion. Not to mention the 60 extra queries on FORUMDISPLAY, and dozen on SHOWTHREAD.

Sorry to disappoint, guys. At least I tried.

My opinion is that at this point in time this mod is considered abandoned. Yes, we have seen a recent post (six days ago) from Farcaster that he plans to reengage but that was the first we have seen of him in many months. The community has been begging for someone to bring this mod up to current standards and it sounds like you have rewritten a large portion of the MOD, unless I'm missing something. I see many mods on VB that are similar to each other, that's nothing new. Why not scrap the rest of what you borrowed from the other mods, rewrite it in full, add a few new features and release it as your own mod? No hard feelings to anyone but there is a need for this mod and you were passionate enough to try and help. My vote would be for you to finish it up and release it as your own MOD.

[Quantnet]

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[Farcaster]

Originally Posted by stwilson

My opinion is that at this point in time this mod is considered abandoned...Why not scrap the rest of what you borrowed from the other mods, rewrite it in full, add a few new features and release it as your own mod? No hard feelings to anyone but there is a need for this mod and you were passionate enough to try and help. My vote would be for you to finish it up and release it as your own MOD.

First of all, this mod is working properly with 3.6.x, 3.7.x, and 3.8.x. The integration modification that I did some time ago between Evercraft's Event Forums and this one is what is not working. This is 100% because Evercraft has not kept his modification up to date and working with the new versions of vBulletin. I do not have the time, nor do I have the desire to take on the Event Forums modification that Evercraft created. Therein lies the crux of the problem of the Event Forums integration.

Second, if someone wants to write a new version of the RSVP modification from scratch without using any of the code I have written, then they are certainly welcome to do that.

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by Farcaster

I do not have the time, nor do I have the desire to take on the Event Forums modification that Evercraft created.

Dear Farcaster,

Do you have the time and desire to create event forums functions for this hack?
This is what many members are waiting for.

[stwilson]

Originally Posted by Farcaster

I do not have the time, nor do I have the desire to take on the Event Forums modification that Evercraft created.

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Dear Farcaster,

Do you have the time and desire to create event forums functions for this hack?
This is what many members are waiting for.

He already answered your question in his earlier post.

[Alfa1]

There is a difference between taking over someone else's modification and expanding your own. I am hoping that farcaster does have the desire for that and thus wants to make time for it.

If not then other coders will have to be found to have such features coded.

IMHO event attendance functions and forum <-> calendar integration supplement each other so much, that many admins will not use one without the other.

[Rene Kriest]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

IMHO event attendance functions and forum <-> calendar integration supplement each other so much, that many admins will not use one without the other.

Agree. Indeed that's what I am desperately waiting for.

[Farcaster]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

There is a difference between taking over someone else's modification and expanding your own. I am hoping that farcaster does have the desire for that and thus wants to make time for it.

I will look into this and try to get a feel for the level of effort such a modification would take and then I will let you know.

[axg]

This looks like a great mod. Will this be fully released soon, and is it compatible with 3.7.X?

[Jaxel]

I think this mod does one thing wrong... I dont want to give my members the ability to RSVP to events on the CALENDAR... almost no one on my forum uses the calendar... Someone needs to make a mod that lets people RSVP to a THREAD... this way we won't have to worry about this stupid vbEvents Forum integration bullcrap.