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Calendar one step forward, two steps back in 1.10

posts: 257 United States

Been checking out 1.10. I do sincerely appreciate everything that the folks who program Tiki do. I hesitate to critique the Calendar but new changes may have rendered the Calendar useless for me and the sites I support for others. I'll preface this by saying I am not a programmer so it is highly likely I'm missing something. Hopefully these comments will help improve the Calendar (or show me for the rube I might be.)

Pro: You can now choose your time zone so times are correct for your time zone and not the server (which may be somewhere else). This is HUGE -thanks!

Con: If you live in a country that uses AM and PM you may be out of luck. In 1.9 and below there was no way to choose 12hr/AM/PM but you could edit the Calendar and Add Event template files and force them to use AM/PM and 12hr time. In 1.10 the template's changed and it doesn't appear you can make that same template change. There is nothing in Features/General or Wiki (or Calendar) Admin that fixes this. The Calendar in 1.10 respects the date but not the time setting in Admin/General/Long and Short date & time format settings. Unless I am missing something if you use 12hr time you may have to stop using the calendar.

Pro: JS Calendar works much better and more intuitively for choosing the date.
Con: The time function in JS Calendar is completely missing so it's no help for the 12hr time problem mentioned above.

Con: "Manual Setting of time/date" can be chosen in Calendar Config but no new blank field shows up in Add Event.

Con: The status setting for "tentative", "confirmed", "cancelled" and the URL field are off to the right (rather than below) severely cramping the URL field and the screen in general. I have been able to edit the template file's table to get the URL underneath the Description so it's long enough to enter data.

Con: Status defaults to "Tentative" ("Confirmed" would be the most used one) -again a change to the template fixes this (though the yellow highlight remains on Tentative and not Confirmed).

Con: Events entered and saved show up on the day you choose -and the next one too! The extra bonus event you get shows the duration in the pop up (!) rather than the start time. Deleting the duplicate event deletes the original too. Hmm...

I might have a flawed installation or may be missing something. I sure hope so!

posts: 3665 United States

I've just started working on moving my site to 1.10, so can't help much... but here goes....

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> Pro: You can now choose your time zone so times are correct for your time zone and not the server (which may be somewhere else). This is HUGE -thanks!
>
> Con: If you live in a country that uses AM and PM you may be out of luck. In 1.9 and below there was no way to choose 12hr/AM/PM but you could edit the Calendar and Add Event template files and force them to use AM/PM and 12hr time. In 1.10 the template's changed and it doesn't appear you can make that same template change. There is nothing in Features/General or Wiki (or Calendar) Admin that fixes this. The Calendar in 1.10 respects the date but not the time setting in Admin/General/Long and Short date & time format settings. Unless I am missing something if you use 12hr time you may have to stop using the calendar.
>

You need to edit the calendarlib.php library (look at/near line 193). It appears that the time is hardcoded as %H:%M. You can change it there.


HTH,

-Rick
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posts: 257 United States

Rick,

First, Good to see you have a book out!

I looked everywhere for the %H and %M in the calendar.tpl but could not find it. For 1.9x you had the solution in editing the .tpl but in 1.10 it doesn't seem to be there.

I know it's not a stable release -maybe it's not done yet.

posts: 3665 United States

> Rick,
>
> First, Good to see you have a book out!


Thanks! Looking forward to your contributions... hint, hint. lol

>
> I looked everywhere for the %H and %M in the calendar.tpl but could not find it. For 1.9x you had the solution in editing the .tpl but in 1.10 it doesn't seem to be there.
>

It is in the PHP library — not the template file.

>> You need to edit the calendarlib.php library (look at/near line 193). It appears that the time is hardcoded as %H:%M. You can change it there.


HTH,

-Rick
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posts: 257 United States

OK, My bad -I'll hunt down the right file and report back.

I'm flattered you'd consider my contributions at all (unless, of course... you really were laughing out loud!). I am actually putting together some generic how-to's using the pre-release 1.10 on the assumption 1.10 will be released and stable soon. (I know, I know.) It's very basic stuff but when I post them I'll send a link and you decide.

Thanks again Rick!


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