[development] Re-Thinking Events in Drupal

[Kieran Lal]

There has been some effort to start adding contributed modules to  
handle some of these cases.   Moshe has an all-day event module for 4.7.

I suggest you target having a non-contiguous multi-day events module  
and file issues on the event queue.

Cheers,
Kieran
On Mar 5, 2006, at 5:27 AM, Grant Malcolm wrote:

> *first post*
>
> Sadly, the IRC timing's really lousy for folks in australia.
>
> ;-)
>
> So will I be excused if I stick in an email plug for catering for
> non-contiguous multi-day events?
>
> This is a particular requirement for some types of events; e.g.
> performances: essentially the same event repeated over several weeks
> but not necessarily on every day.
>
> http://home.it.net.au/~gmalcolm/?q=node/18872
>
> I added an extra table event_days
>
> mysql> describe event_days;
> +-------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+
> | Field | Type    | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
> +-------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+
> | nid   | int(10) | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
> | date  | int(10) | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
> +-------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+
>
> where there is a row for every date that nid (the event) occurs.
> Timezone isn't an issue with this example but you could probably just
> use event.tz offset if it were. It's not visible without a login, but
> I ended up opting for an utterly inaccessible js tool
> (http://www.calendarxp.net/tt_flat.shtml) for inputting dates rather
> than the couple of months' worth of check boxes I used to display.
>
> It's a hack and I'm yet to clean up day, week, month views to use
> occurences of date rather than start and end.
>
> If I was clever, and I'm not, I'd have modified the module to add a
> flag you can set (for each event?) to define whether it's repeating,
> multiday, non-contiguous.... anyway, I hope it gives someone some
> ideas.
>
> Cheers
> Grant
>
> On 04/03/06, Angie Byron <drupal-devel at webchick.net> wrote:
>> Hey, folks!
>>
>> At DrupalCon, there was a lot of discussion about where events are  
>> in Drupal and
>> how they can be improved. I'd like to setup an IRC chat for us to  
>> try and hammer
>> out how we can develop flexible APIs and where additional  
>> functionality is
>> needed to make events in Drupal really shine.
>>
>> More details can be found at the following post: http://drupal.org/ 
>> node/52104
>>
>> Hope to see you there!
>>
>> -Angie
>>
>
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