Topic Calendar (regular phpBB edition)

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Post by Ptirhiik »

You grant the calendar auth exactly the way you grant the sticky announcement auths : this means you can grant a group to post event in a forum where non-group members can't. You may also dedicated a forum for a larger group to be a calendar specific one : it depends of your needs and board settlement.

I don't understand your last question.
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How to post, edit, delete calendar item

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For my use, a dedicated calendar forum, within a private/hidden category, produces a nice place where calendar items can be seen as a topic list or via the more graphical calendar. Very nice.

Sorry about that last bit was just me thinking outloud before taking my fingers off the keyboard.

Great mod... now I'm off to look for where to change the registration screen so the nonprofit staff isn't faced with figuring out if they are exactly thirteen :roll:
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Post by Fancypants »

How can i add some things to the calendar
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Adding new calendar items is done through adding new topics and giving it a date, see reply to my earlier post in this thread.
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Post by Fearless »

That's why it's called topic calendar ;) (and a good system it is).
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Post by gatezone »

Yes it is a great add-on/mod. As good as it is it would benefit from a couple of paragraphs of explanation and instruction. From my own experience I know how difficult it can be to get around to the 'help' stuff. Has anyone come up with something for the calendar? I could try to come up with something if no one else has. Fresh perspective and all that.
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Post by jbillouin »

Ok, i;ve installed this mod (great work by the way!) and now i would like to start a topic full of calender dates, but i want to do the following...

I would like to have the Forum threads ordered by date, so that the Next upcomming event will be shown first, and then the next calender date below that, and so on. Once the event has passed maybe the thread could just be hidden, and only accessed if you goto the calender and find the previus date, before clicking on it.

I hope that i have made myself clear.

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Post by Ptirhiik »

I think it should not be very difficult to enhance the topic display order mod of mine to add this sort in it, as the field is available directly from the topics table to the sort. For locking automaticely the topic at end, it would require to build a similar system than the prune one, which is a little more complicated :).
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Super long Topic Calendar Events

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Just added this last night and the first calendar event I posted went well. Now when I set an event, it posts as an event from 31 Dec 1969 through to the day of the event. The descriptive field beneath the heading is blank. I didn't see any other problems like this, so it must just be me...

Any ideas?
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Lost Calendar Header Mods

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Definitely naughty *and* stupid...forgetting to backup a working modified file...

I wanted to get rid of the memberlist link as I have several hidden categories and forums and don't want the Memberlist to be so public. I found a post that said to remove the link and code at the top of overall_header.tpl

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<img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_mini_members.gif" width="12" height="13" border="0" alt="{L_MEMBERLIST}" hspace="3" />{L_MEMBERLIST}</a>
When I re-put this file back to the site the page displayed in raw form without the style and without anything above the "Your last post..." area.

I tried a few things including a simple undo which I thought would restore it easily. Eventually I just put a copy of the original downloaded overall_header.tpl and everything came back fine except the calendar mod header (of course) The calendar files are still there and I can see calendar.php.

I went back to the topic-calendar mod instructions and made the code changes by hand (first time used easy mod installer). After making these changes the header was back to the raw page without styles, no calendar links, and again nothing above the "your last post" area.

I'm used to making html and php types of changes on files but it seems like I can't touch the header tpl file without it blowing up on me. Am I going about this wrong? Is there some special way to edit the .tpl file?

Any help getting the calendar header mods back at the top of a working header would be appreciated.
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Re: Lost Calendar Header Mods

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gatezone wrote: I wanted to get rid of the memberlist link as I have several hidden categories and forums and don't want the Memberlist to be so public. I found a post that said to remove the link and code at the top of overall_header.tpl


The Restrict Memberlist / Usergroup Pages mod is maybe what you're looking for.
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Post by gatezone »

Maybe, but at this point it is more important to restore the calendar mod display and access at the top of the header.

Ideally, membership access would be coded via permissions to the user group(s) for which you have membership. While it is a no-brainer that guests/unregistered visitors should not have access to the memberlist, it is equally necessary for the administrator to have better control over who access which would be best done with group, user, category permissions.

Anyone seen a mod that links membership access/viewing to usergroups?

Any pointers to the mysteries of the overall_header.tpl and why it is going bonkers everytime I 'look' at it?
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Post by gatezone »

Also found these:


Posted from a support team member. I'll keep hunting but am concerned about adding more mods till I get the calendar header bit figured out.
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Post by Ptirhiik »

What the hell all of this has to do with Topic Calendar ! :?
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Post by gatezone »

Trying to get rid of memberlist broke the calendar in my installation. Nothing overly hellish. I managed to find very nicely backed up post-processed files in easy mod installer and all is well again. The memberlist sidetrack was only touched on because that was what started the errors... whew.
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