[DUG-TO] Thanks for the info on Date module

Eduardo Dutra eduardo.m.dutra at gmail.com
Thu May 7 22:40:30 EDT 2009


Thanks Alan, Tristan and Alex for the info on the Date module. As a newb,
I've been a little spooked by the prospect of using a dev version on my live
site but it seems it's stable enough.

Eduardo Dutra



On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:00 PM, <dug-to-request at lists.openject.com> wrote:

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> Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 14:08:07 -0400
> From: Alex Dvornyak <alex at biota.utoronto.ca>
> Subject: Re: [DUG-TO] Date + Calendar are great but...
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> Hi Eduardo,
>
> I just was dealing with similar issue. There is a bug in current stable
> Date module (6.x-2.1) - it's not working if the default date in the
> filter is "now". The solution is to use the latest dev release.
>
> Sincerely,
> Alex
>
>
>
> Eduardo Dutra wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I 've been using date and calendar for about 6 months. However, a
> > couple months ago after one of the updates (I can't remember which
> > module - perhaps both) one of my views of upcoming events stopped
> > playing nice. I had had events expiring from the view by using 'now'
> > until it stopped working? Since then I have had to unpublish the
> > event. This has solved the problem for the upcoming events view but it
> > also removes it from the calendar - ideally the past events all remain
> > in the calendar view.
> >
> > I've looked into the forums and issues several times and the same
> > questions have been asked there but I can't seem to make heads or
> > tails of the responses/solutions. Obviously I'm missing something.
> >
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> >
> > Thanks, Eduardo
> >
> >
> >
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> >       1. Is the Event Views module dead? (Evan Leibovitch)
> >       2. Re: Is the Event Views module dead? (Martin Anderson)
> >       3. Re: Is the Event Views module dead? (Kevin Walsh)
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> >     Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 12:26:38 -0400
> >     From: Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org <mailto:evan at telly.org>>
> >     Subject: [DUG-TO] Is the Event Views module dead?
> >     To: Drupal Users Group Toronto <dug-to at lists.openject.com
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> >     Hey all,
> >
> >     I'm using Views2 and just starting to want to create a list of events
> >     based on start/end date etc.
> >
> >     I'm now finding that the "Event Views" module doesn't support Drupal6
> >     and that development on it is moving either slowly or not at all.
> >
> >     The advice I found in d.o is going in three different directions:
> >
> >       1) Deprecate the Event module, roll your own event node type in
> CCK,
> >     and then use views to filter on the date fields of that.
> >       2) Use the Calendar module instead of Event
> >       3) Apply a hack suggested at posts #13 and #25 of
> >     http://drupal.org/node/293894
> >
> >     What are people here doing in this situation?
> >
> >     Thanks!
> >
> >     - Evan
> >
> >
> >
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> >     Message: 2
> >     Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 15:40:57 -0400
> >     From: Martin Anderson <martin at surge.ca <mailto:martin at surge.ca>>
> >     Subject: Re: [DUG-TO] Is the Event Views module dead?
> >     To: Drupal Users Group Toronto <dug-to at lists.openject.com
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> >     Message-ID: <2FB198C3-B650-497E-A5F3-0C3268331EA4 at surge.ca
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> >
> >     I've been using the Date module for D6, with support from Calendar
> >     when necessary.
> >
> >
> >     On 4-May-09, at 12:26 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> >
> >     > Hey all,
> >     >
> >     > I'm using Views2 and just starting to want to create a list of
> >     events
> >     > based on start/end date etc.
> >     >
> >     > I'm now finding that the "Event Views" module doesn't support
> >     Drupal6
> >     > and that development on it is moving either slowly or not at all.
> >     >
> >     > The advice I found in d.o is going in three different directions:
> >     >
> >     >   1) Deprecate the Event module, roll your own event node type
> >     in CCK,
> >     > and then use views to filter on the date fields of that.
> >     >   2) Use the Calendar module instead of Event
> >     >   3) Apply a hack suggested at posts #13 and #25 of
> >     > http://drupal.org/node/293894
> >     >
> >     > What are people here doing in this situation?
> >     >
> >     > Thanks!
> >     >
> >     > - Evan
> >     >
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> >     Message: 3
> >     Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 21:01:36 -0400
> >     From: Kevin Walsh <kevinjosephwalsh at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:kevinjosephwalsh at gmail.com>>
> >     Subject: Re: [DUG-TO] Is the Event Views module dead?
> >     To: Drupal Users Group Toronto <dug-to at lists.openject.com
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> >     You might want to check out the presentation by KarenS @ DrupalCon DC
> >     about Date/Calendar.  It had longer and bigger rounds of applause
> than
> >     any other session i went to...
> >
> >
> http://www.archive.org/details/DrupalconDc2009-MakingDatesAndCalendarsRock
> >
> >     Kevin
> >
> >     On May 4, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Martin Anderson wrote:
> >
> >     > I've been using the Date module for D6, with support from Calendar
> >     > when necessary.
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > On 4-May-09, at 12:26 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> >     >
> >     >> Hey all,
> >     >>
> >     >> I'm using Views2 and just starting to want to create a list of
> >     events
> >     >> based on start/end date etc.
> >     >>
> >     >> I'm now finding that the "Event Views" module doesn't support
> >     Drupal6
> >     >> and that development on it is moving either slowly or not at all.
> >     >>
> >     >> The advice I found in d.o is going in three different directions:
> >     >>
> >     >>  1) Deprecate the Event module, roll your own event node type
> >     in CCK,
> >     >> and then use views to filter on the date fields of that.
> >     >>  2) Use the Calendar module instead of Event
> >     >>  3) Apply a hack suggested at posts #13 and #25 of
> >     >> http://drupal.org/node/293894
> >     >>
> >     >> What are people here doing in this situation?
> >     >>
> >     >> Thanks!
> >     >>
> >     >> - Evan
> >     >>
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