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    Posted by Jackalgirl posts: 21

    Hello —

    I'm using Tiki Wiki v. 6.2. I'll be downloading 6.3 and installing it presently, but it may take me a while (I am not wiki-savvy) . I've got Calendar enabled. It seems pretty nice. However, I'm having a strange and strangely inconsistent problem.

    Today I created an event. I set the date for tomorrow, July 19th, from 1800 to 1830. I set the text. All looked nice. I saved the event and the calendar promptly created an event for December 23, 2003.

    I edited the event and changed the date to July 19, 2011 (manually, not using the pop-up calendar. Saved the event. No change: it's still a Dec 23 2003 event.

    I clicked the Today button, then M to look at July events. Clicked on the 19th's "Add Event" button. Added the event again. Made sure to set it to July 19, 2011. Even used the calendar pop-up tool this time. Saved the event.

    The event shows up on the calendar on...July 18, 2011. I edited the event to make it July 19, 2011 and saved it. No change. I had to go into the database itself and change the date that way. I was logged in as the administrator, btw.

    Eventually, other users are going to want and need to add and edit events. Obviously, this is not going to work if Calendar gets to decide what day the events are on. Am I doing something wrong? Is this a known problem?

    Thanks bunches in advance!

    — JG

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    Posted by George Greene posts: 257 United States

    Not to dis Tiki, because I use it and love it but, in my estimation, Tiki's calendar has never been a strong feature and does not seem to be developed much over time.

    Many other calendars have more features and work much better. I've included Google Calendar (as an iFrame)at my site a few years ago and never looked back.

    Posted by Jackalgirl posts: 21
    George Greene wrote:

    Not to dis Tiki, because I use it and love it but, in my estimation, Tiki's calendar has never been a strong feature and does not seem to be developed much over time.

    Many other calendars have more features and work much better. I've included Google Calendar (as an iFrame)at my site a few years ago and never looked back.


    Howdy —

    Well, I'd really like to use the feature. I don't want to force my users to have to sign up for Google, or learn something non-tiki-ish, just to use a calendar.

    I've narrowed down the problem to the actual javascript calendar. At least, I don't have problems with really wonky dates if I disable javascript in the admin "Programmer" settings. Somehow, regardless of whether I type in the date or use the calendar, the js calendar overwrites whatever date I select with whatever the heck it wants unless I use the "Today" button. If I do that, the date that gets set for the event is "today", regardless of whether I actually change the date in the input field after I click "Today".

    Event entry is really ugly with the javascript turned off, but at least the dates work. I am no javascript guru, so it'll take me a while to figure it out. In the meantime, I'm leaving the js off. Folks are going to start to use this system soon, and I can't leave the calendar in a crippled state.

    — JG


    Posted by Dan.BTown posts: 26

    Hi,

    I'm running several websites with Tiki 6.3 and 7.0 which are accessed with Firefox and Epiphany.

    At least I can confirm that we've observed this date-changing behaviour in Tiki 6.3. Our sites running Tiki 7.0 make far less use of the calendar feature, so I'm not sure at this point if the calendar issue is fixed in 7.0.

    I, too, wouldn't want to bind in Google gadgets, and would rather prefere to use a fixed Tiki calendar feature, because it was actually the reason why we swichted from DokuWiki to Tiki.

    I'm not aware if there's a pending bug report on Tiki.org regarding the calendar issue.

    Regards,
    – Dan

    Posted by Jackalgirl posts: 21
    Dan.BTown wrote:

    Hi,

    I'm running several websites with Tiki 6.3 and 7.0 which are accessed with Firefox and Epiphany.

    At least I can confirm that we've observed this date-changing behaviour in Tiki 6.3. Our sites running Tiki 7.0 make far less use of the calendar feature, so I'm not sure at this point if the calendar issue is fixed in 7.0.

    I, too, wouldn't want to bind in Google gadgets, and would rather prefere to use a fixed Tiki calendar feature, because it was actually the reason why we swichted from DokuWiki to Tiki.

    I'm not aware if there's a pending bug report on Tiki.org regarding the calendar issue.

    Regards,
    – Dan


    I'm sure that it's the jscalendar that's causing the problem. I have it disabled now and am having no trouble with inputting events. If I were any good with with javascript, I'd dig into the jscalendar scripting and figure out what's going on. But for now, that'll have to be a project for a later day. ; ) I'll wander over to the bug report area after I've gotten this thing fully upgraded, etc if the problem still occurs. If it hasn't been reported, I'll do that.

    Thanks!

    — Kat