[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
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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?
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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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> > 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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> > 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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