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  Peter February 11th, 2015 @ 04:36 PM

  The same happens for most of the other choices under the Module tab.

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  Peter February 11th, 2015 @ 04:41 PM

  Aggregation with existing calendar events only seems to work when you select the Featured Items view. However it also shows past featured events as well as upcoming. Any other view displays no events.

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  Peter February 12th, 2015 @ 05:21 PM

  Another problem in the calendar. After creating an event module, if I go back to Configure Settings in any of the modules on that page some of the tabs have only a blank line underneath. I can only change setting in Aggregation, Categories, Facebook, Tags and Twitter.

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  dleffler February 13th, 2015 @ 03:17 PM

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  • Milestone set to “2.3.3”

  This appears to be a regression bug. We are NOT falling back to the base view name .config file (showall.config) and attempting to load the specific view name .config file (showall_Past Events.config) which doesn't exist.

  You are correct, you should be able to create different views of the same data by 'aggregating' each module to the other (though it's not necessary to aggregate both modules, I've found I tend to add events to both modules and you want all events displayed by both)

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  expNinja February 13th, 2015 @ 03:27 PM

  • State changed from “new” to “resolved”

  (from [2aa3fd2fa35c10cf55530536aefc65e8819386d4]) Regression fix: proper 'base' view config file not found, reports smarty error [#1266 state:resolved] https://github.com/exponentcms/exponent-cms/commit/2aa3fd2fa35c10cf...

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  dleffler February 13th, 2015 @ 03:31 PM

  The 'smarty error' issue has been fixed in the pre-release code for the next release which should occur within the next week (most likely 2.3.3 since the patch would be almost as large as a full release)

  The issue about the 'missing tab details'...when you say 'any of the modules on that page', are they all Calendar modules? If so it's likely the result of the same bug, but breaking the load of module specific tab details (the ones you list are general for all modules)

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  Peter February 13th, 2015 @ 04:01 PM

  Here's a screen shot of the configuration problem. The first 6 tabs are all the same.

  I don't think putting events in twice is a starter for the customer, they have a problem keeping one up to date! Also not a clean solution. I have pulled featured events out into a separate box, as you can also see in the screen shot, and tweaked the CSS and tpl to produce the display I want.

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  dleffler February 13th, 2015 @ 04:30 PM

  • State changed from “resolved” to “open”

  Sorry, I confused you...if both calendar modules are aggregated to each other, you'd only have to add/edit the event on either calendar and it's be displayed on both calendars

  Ref the last screenshot, which view are you attempting to configure (the featured events module in the sidebar)?

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  Peter February 13th, 2015 @ 04:58 PM

  Ah OK.

  No, I'm trying to configure the long list of events on the main part of the page. Capture3.

  Also can I say that it seems quite difficult to get a flow going in the calendar. I removed the day / week / month view links in the main body with CSS to alleviate confusion, but it would be good if they could be optional in the configuration.

  If I click on month view in the right hand column it opens OK in the larger left hand side. However there's no obvious way to go back or cancel. If I click on List View I would expect to get the list from the month where the featured event is, but I get the current month. Again no way back. If I click Go To Date I get a mini calendar, I page forward to a month where there's an event, but clicking on any date does nothing. Capture4. The only way back is to create a link in another text module to back out all the way.

  Other desirables: If I open an event, I'd like to be able to click to go to the next event, can't see a way to do that. Also it would be really useful if I could have multi-day events to tidy up the listing. As you can see in Capture5 events are over a 2 or 3 day weekend, but I have to repeat the event for each day. I do need slightly different information each day.

  Sorry to dump all of this, but if there are things here you can add to a list of desired features please do it!!

  Regards.
  Peter.

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  dleffler February 13th, 2015 @ 08:45 PM

  A couple of points:

  • excellent suggestion to add a setting to hide links to other views...will plan to add it before the next release
  • the only calendar views 'designed' for a sidebar are the 'headlines' and 'mini-calendar' views as ANY page load when clicking a link in a sidebar will open in the 'main' area. Turning on ajax paging might alleviate this somewhat, but only when moving between dates.
  • the 'go to date' should bring in that date, does the month/year on the calendar area change when you click on a date inside the popup mini-calendar? There is a logic issue which prevents displaying the 'no events' message which is now fixed in the pre-release code.
  • regarding true multi-day events, this ticket is open #983...I've created a proprietary solution with that feature, but the main widget is missing a feature for the week/day views, so I hadn't pursued it in the open-source code base
  • I've thought of a next/prev event feature, but it isn't quite as easy as it sounds...I'll add it as a ticket though
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  dleffler February 13th, 2015 @ 08:50 PM

  ...and regarding display of current multi-day type events...

  • we do some simple event compression (only display 1st occurrence) of multi-day events, but they must be connected (have the same basic information)
  • a possible work-around might be to use the 'featured' flag for the 1st event of that type (absent on rest) and then set the view display to 'featured only'

  As a note, the showall 'List' and 'Featured Events' views are deprecated and may not work. They've not really be updated and are only included for backwards compatibility...they will likely be removed in the next version release

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  Peter February 14th, 2015 @ 09:38 AM

  Thanks for adding link hiding - I now hid the Month View link in the sidebar by editing the tpl file. I am trying to avoid people wandering around and getting lost! I appreciate that the calendar could only open in the main body, that isn't a problem per se.

  When I clicked GoTo the mini calendar came up with the current month February even though the big calendar view was on July. Paging forward to July as in the screen shot and clicking on any date including when there was an event did nothing.

  I'll have a look at the proprietary solution for multi-day. As you seem to be doing more in that area, what ideally I need to see for this customer is that the headline for the weekend is displayed once, but the two or three dates are shown, and clickable for that particular day (so the user sees the event is XYZ on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, and thinks he'd like to go on Sunday so clicks that date. See screenshot for as-is and modified version for ideal view.

  I'm a little worried when you say you will remove Featured Event display - this is quite important for us!

  Regards.
  Peter.

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  Peter February 14th, 2015 @ 02:00 PM

  The configuration problem seems to affect any type of configuration you are trying to do on the Events page. I just went to Manage All Pages and there was just a blank box too. Changing to another page it works fine. Peter.

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  dleffler February 14th, 2015 @ 02:46 PM

  Most likely the javascript code is breaking on the page. Typcially once javascript crashes (usually when trying to reference an object that does not exist), the rest of the javascript on the page no longer works...such as the popup calendar, the page tree view, etc.. Is this page using a different subtheme?

  If you turn on 'lightbox' for the view (not available on all views), the individual event pops up in a window...therefore when you close it you are back to the original view.

  The 'proprietary' multi-day calendar was a custom solution purchased by a client and the base code to implement it hasn't yet been integrated into the Exp code base. It had several hard-coded features which wouldn't work well on most sites.

  I'll try to come up with a 'grouping' view, but it would only group the original recurring event(s), NOT any event which has been re-saved apart from the original set.

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  Peter February 14th, 2015 @ 03:59 PM

  Theme variation on the page is the 'events.php' created by modifying the line that handles the right hand column. The right hand column uses a modified tpl file (note: the right hand column uses the left hand column code in Exponent but placed on the right using CSS). Both attached. If I update the events.php so it is the same as all other pages it makes no difference. That also changes the right column to the same as the rest of the pages thus no longer using the tpl. If I use my events.php and rename the modified tpl I still get the same result.

  There are no errors on the error console, just a load of warnings, for example:

  Timestamp: 14/02/2015 15:42:48
  Warning: Expected declaration but found '*'. Skipped to next declaration.
  Source File: http://www.sandtoft.org/new_site/install/framework/core/assets/css/...
  Line: 16, Column: 2
  Source Code:
  *display: inline;

  Timestamp: 14/02/2015 15:42:48
  Warning: Unknown property 'zoom'. Declaration dropped.
  Source File: http://www.sandtoft.org/new_site/install/framework/core/assets/css/...
  Line: 17, Column: 6
  Source Code:
  zoom: 1;

  All of the warnings are to do with several of your CSS files.

  I can't turn lightbox on or do any other changes as there is just the blank box as described.

  Point noted on multi-day. Will await developments.

  Peter.

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  Peter February 16th, 2015 @ 09:53 AM

  I have just tried to edit one of the vents in the events list. I am also presented with the single line blank box so am unable to do this either. So it looks like any editing in Events, whether trying to configure modules or edit events, suffers the same problem.

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  Peter February 16th, 2015 @ 10:38 AM

  OK, I have now tried to reproduce the problem by creating a page with the same modules and content. I have not been able to reproduce the problem, also using events.php and the featured tpl.

  So now thinking back to when this might have started - a while ago I needed to change the layout of the page. The page originally had one sectional container. I had introductory text followed by a tabbed text module before the list of events. I created the events.php in order to have two sectional containers to separate the events from the rest of the page.

  I deleted each module from the original page, then brought them into the new page from the recycle bin. Now, I can't be 100% sure this is when the problem started, but it seems the most likely time.

  I hope that helps!

  Peter.

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  Peter February 17th, 2015 @ 03:41 PM

  I have now reproduced the problem. On my test page, with everything working fine, I deleted the tabbed text module in the second sectional container. I then added a text module to the first sectional container, bringing back the first tabbed text from the recycle bin. The configure settings box was now just a single line. I deleted the tabbed text module just created and the configure settings was back to normal.

  I then added a tabbed text module to the first container but did not fetch anything from the recycle bin. The problem still came back.

  I then deleted this tabbed text module and added a text module with default option. Configure settings OK. Changed this module to tabbed, problem comes back.

  Peter.

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  Peter February 17th, 2015 @ 03:50 PM

  Sorry, screen shots....

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  dleffler February 18th, 2015 @ 03:35 PM

  • State changed from “open” to “resolved”

  The original issue has been resolved; the secondary issue of tabs has been given a new ticket #1271