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Jerry,
Excellent! This is a big step forward. Thanks so much
for working this through.
Is it possible to eliminate the time field completely,
and just use the date field? It might be less confusing if we instruct
those posting webinars to include time data in their description fields (and
certainly, if someone is interested, they'll follow the link to the source where
the time will be clear).
If we have to keep the time field, why instruct all-day
posters to set the time to midnight? Why not the actual time, e.g., 8:30 am to
6:00 pm?
It would also be great if we could remove the "Calendar
Event" line that's displayed in the view page. If we could replace it with
the data from the Event Type field (conference, webinar, user group meeting,
training session) that would be fantastic. I'd also like to see the event title
in larger type. Maybe those are requests for the Greg list I'm
keeping.
I reorganized the info on the jump page, just to make
it easier for viewers to get where they want and posters to see what they need.
If you don't like my edits, feel free to revert. I agree it would be better
to have posting info on the post page, but you're right, this seems like a
compromise we can live with temporarily.
Carol
I managed to create
some events and display them on the event module page (http://dita.xml.org/event). The basic
functionality of the event module isn't perfect, but probably good enough until
we can afford something better.
-
I created a flexinode called
"Calendar Event" and configured it to be an Event type. The flexinode
allowed me to create a form for entering
events.
- I updated the Events home page (linked off the left
nav) and added links to the event module and to the event creation form.
It would be better if the information on the Events home page could be added
to the event module page, but I don't see any way of doing that.
- I configured the
list view to appear by default. The basic presentation is not bad, and
the default list only shows future events in chronological order (good).
You can change the view by clicking one of the
options (month - week -day - table - I wonder if month isn't a better
default). Only a thumbnail for each event displays, and you can
click on "More Info" to see additional information like location and
description. But there are some limitations:
- The time zone does not appear for timed
events (e.g. Webinars) in the list view. If you click on the title,
you can view the event information on a page by itself. That page does
display the time zone.
- Events spanning multiple days (e.g.
conferences) show up several times in the list. This is not a problem
if you use the month view, but it's confusing in the list view.
- All day events (e.g. conferences) still
display a time. This can be very confusing. The event creator
has to enter a time on the form - the default is 3:37 am for some
reason. We can suggest to users that they enter midnight (12:00am) for
all day events, but this seems pretty kludgey.
- To update or delete an event, the creator
can open the event's page by clicking on its title, and then click the Edit
tab.
- As discussed earlier, there is no way to
enter recurring events.
The explanation on the Events home page
describes some of these limitations. Until we can fix them, that's
probably a good enough workaround.
My next task is to
figure out something similar for News/Annoucements.
Regards,
Jerry
JERRY SILVER
Director, Product
Management
BLAST RADIUS XMetaL
www.xmetal.com
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