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

This is an add-on to the vB Event Forums hack by Evercraft that will allow it to work with Farcaster's Event Attendance. This hack disables two of the Event Forum plugins and adds two integrated versions of the plugins in their place.

Prerequisites:

• Farcaster's Event Attendance 1.2.0
• vB Event Forums 3.3

Installation Instructions:
- 1 XML upload

1. Use the Product Manager to import the product file product-rah_rsvp_forums_addon_1_1_1.xml

Upgrade Instructions:
1. Use the Product Manager to import the product file product-rah_rsvp_forums_addon_1_1_1.xml and allow overwrites.

Uninstallation Instructions:

1. Uninstall the Product.
2. If Event Forums are installed, re-enable the following two plugins:

• Display Event Details on Thread Page
• redirect links to individual events to their threads instead

Revision Log:
1.0.0 - Initial Release
1.0.1 - A bug that occured on some boards which caused incorrect dates to display on the RSVP form has been resolved.
1.1.0 - 02/20/07 - Minor Revision - Modified the add-on for version 1.2.0 of the Event Attendance modification.
1.1.1 - 07/13/07 - Bug Fix - Corrected fetch_phrase query problem that was causing excessive amounts of queries to be added to the showthread display.

This hack is provided completely free of charge. However, if you use this hack and are so moved, you may make a donation via PayPal:

[Farcaster]

Mike, you could modify the calendar_rsvp_bit template and add encapsulate the entire thing in an if conditional based on the user group. That should do it for you.

[Farcaster]

All, you may have noticed that after adding this hack, an excessive number of queries were launched each time you brought up a thread with an RSVP event. This was caused by multiple calls to the fetch_phrase function. This has been corrected in version 1.1.1 of this modification.

[TheMilkCarton]

Thank you for fixing that!

However, the update to your Event Attendance (1.2.0) broke Quick Reply. I can attest to this as I had noticed complaints of this, but it was working fine for me until I upgraded to Event Attendance 1.2.0.

Was this fixed in 1.2.1? The Revision Log doesn't mention it.

Edit: I guess not.. I'll post over in the Event Attendance thread about it, then.

[Quantnet]

Thanks so much for the update, Robert.

I used to have 60+ queries, now i only have 30+ for event with 18+ rspv.

By the way, I notice there is an uncached template for this. And there is no name for the uncached. just an empty (1)

[Ted S]

Do we need to uninstall or do anything special to upgrade or will an overwrite of the existing template work?

[Farcaster]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Do we need to uninstall or do anything special to upgrade or will an overwrite of the existing template work?

Just reimport the XML file and allow overwrites and you'll be fine. There are no template changes from v1.1.0 to v1.1.1, so if you modified the templates you can keep the modified versions.

[agilent]

Originally Posted by Farcaster

Yes, the problem was that my RSVP hack would not work with Evercraft's Event Forums hack. This add-on module integrates the two hacks so that they will work in conjunction.

I have the Evercraft's Event Forums already installed. I am going to install Farecaster's Event Attendance Mod because I would like to allow my users to RSVP "Yes," "No," or "Maybe," for events posted on our forum calendar.

DOES THIS MEAN I NEED TO INSTALL "Farcaster's Event Attendance & vb Event Forums Integration" MOD?

[Farcaster]

Yes. You need this integration hack and the Event Attendance hack to have RSVPs on your Event Forums

[agilent]

Thanks for replying back Farcaster. I appreciate the fact that you are still actively supporting this mod.

[agilent]

First of all, let me go ahead and recommend this hack for anyone who wants to manage RSVPs on your forum. It has worked great so far.

However, I have noticed a problem and I am looking for a solution. I have found if you edit the time, for example, if an event ends at 9:00 PM and you adjust it to 10:00 PM, it is deleting all the RSVPs. Luckily, I caught this during a test run before I actually started collecting "live" RSVPs. As long as you don't edit the time, it works fine. Also, it lets you edit the body of the event and RSVPs stay intact. It is only when you adjust the time, that it deletes the RSVPs.

Is there an edit that I can perform to fix this problem?