Re: Event Listings: Ricks99 advice
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> Hi Folks,
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> I am a novice tikiwiki admin, setting up a site for a cub-scout pack (a kids club, with various sub-groups). This site will need to use a lot of events listings, and most of the events need to be entered by very-non-technical folks.
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> Rick, your keycontent site does a great job using the calendar and events, and you've cleaned up the UI nicely. Have you written up a "how did they do it" guide for the calendars like you did for some of the other KC stuff? If not, could I email you with questions?
Thanks for the kind words. 😀
Take a look at:
...for general discussion, hints etc. There's additional background, planning, etc. here
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Feel free to contact me with specifics.
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> Also (for Rick or anyone else), I think most of our "events" (i.e. meetings and field trips) will need more content and structure than the calendar events will support. My preferred scenario is for the non-technical editors to be able to make a wiki page for each meeting (using a certain template) and give it a date element, and for a calendar event to be automajically created that links to that longer page. Is there some way to do this native in tw, or a mod? If not, I'll see if I can find a friend to write some php code.
Yes this is very similar to what I'm doing here. The problem (challange) is the "automatic wiki page creation" for each event. Currently users have to:
- Create the event's wiki page.
- Create a calendar event and in the description area, add a wiki link to the event's wiki page.
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> Thanks very much,
> Drea