[Imc-drupal-dev] advice on events setup

[dan mackinlay imap]

For drupal 5

   * I've had bad experiences with the events module when i tried to  
DISable it. it doesn't clean up after itself, producing errors when  
you use events content other view, //even// views that have nothing  
to do with date...
   * the ical output embeds dud html in subscribed iCal user's iCal
   * The event module code is very messy, so i just don't feel  
comfortable having it around
   * I also personally dislike weekly calendar views because they are  
such a mess to style - I prefer to do teaser list summaries by date,  
which is much better done with views, and allows you to have more  
than about 2 events per day without the page getting hopelessly messy...

The date api solution has worked much better and way more flexibly  
for me, and took no more time to set up (since we weren't using basic  
event module, we had to create the new CCK 'event' content anyway...  
since we wanted an upcoming event view anyway we had to set up the  
view anyway... i think this is how my experience was different to  
Bruno's)

The date JS widget works fine on every browser that we've tried and  
works fast. no problems there.

Please let me know if you get leech to work for events! I've been  
meaning to work that one out for months, but haven't had the time.

Cheers,
dan

On 06/04/2007, at 18:52 , Bruno De Bondt wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> - Which modules?
>>
>> Should we use the tried and true events module or use a  
>> combination of
>> CCK + Date API + Calendar View module?
>>
>> http://drupal.org/project/calendar
>>
>> Is there any advantage to using calendar?
>>
>
> We're using event.module at the moment, it fullfills most of our  
> needs.
> Although I've read some good points in favour of the combination you
> mention (CCK + date + calendar view). I've played with these, but
> couldn't get the desired result (I was a bit short on time to test it
> properly).
>
> Right now, we're using the basicevent node type in combination with
> views for a (very) simple listing of events. You can show start / end
> dates with views, and build a list view like this.
>
> I'm convinced that cck + date api + calendar view allows for more
> flexibility, but it needs more configuration. If you have the time for
> this, I would go for this.
>
>> - Has anyone used the JSTools module to enable a the popup  
>> calendar for
>> date fields? Any bugs? Browser compatibility?
>>
>
> Haven't tried it, but must be cool to use. Date works without problems
> (only used it on 5.0 sites though).  Which version of Drupal are you
> using btw?
>
>> http://drupal.org/project/jstools
>>
>> - Fields
>>
>> I'll list the fields I intend on using for events. It's probably not
>> necessary that every indy has the same ones, but perhaps it is?
>>
>> Start Date/Time (date) Compulsory
>> End Date/Time date) Compulsory
>> Event Name (single line text) Compulsory
>> Contact Name (single line text) Compulsory
>> Contact Phone (single line text)
>> Contact Email (single line text)
>> Description (textarea)
>> Location (textarea) Compulsory
>>
>
> Perhaps add a link field for more event info?
>
>> - Syndication
>>
>> Is there any possible way to syndicate events from other sites  
>> directly
>> into event nodes? Ical feeds?
>>
>
> No idea. There is the Leech module, maybe that allows you to do this
> (http://drupal.org/project/leech).
>
> -- bruno
>
>> Thanks
>> Cam
>> Sydney Indy
>>
>> http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/
>>
>>
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