eventCal
    More customization, please, November 19, 2006 |
The component is fairly customizable, but it took a long while to figure out how to get the dates to be displayed the way I wanted in the accompanying module. It would have been nice if all the % codes were documented... they are case sensitive, so there are 52 combinations to try.
Also, the generated events on the module are automatically created as links, which can be useful in some circumstances, but it would be nice if I could turn it off. I wish I could embed HTML in the event descriptions so that I could provide a link directly to the site chatroom for my chat events. (A separate event link field could also accomodate this, but sometimes I have multiple links, for instance, for a sports event, you might have Live Stats, Box Score, and Chat.)
I appreciated that the component allows for different categories of events, but this part of the module needs some more robustness added.
Finally, it would be nice if the module allowed for some pretext and posttext to be inserted before and after the list of events. For instance, I would like to be able to insert blanket text that all events are free and open to the public and provide a link to our PDF year-long calendar.
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Attend Events
    CB Integration is Nice, November 19, 2006 |
4 of 4 people find this review helpful:
Attend Events can be integrated with Community Builder, and will draw information from CB fields if you set it up right. This is fantastic as far as my end users are concerned.
However, the field configuration on the backend is a little cumbersome sometimes, and I was surprised to find that if you add a standard field, it is not added to existing events. (I had to go back and add these universal fields manually.)
The integration with Google Maps is interesting, but I wish I could have the component generate the link in a new browser window ("_blank"). Likewise, the venue link should have this option.
It would be nice if there was more flexibility in how the event's description/registration page was configured. The authors might take as an example the way Community Builder allows you to customize user profiles.
I wish that I could change the appearance of the list of events on the front end. It would be nice if I could specify I want events ordered by date, by registration deadline, by alphabet, by... category? (Oohh.. there's an idea.)
Also, the system calls each event a "session." This sounds to me like there are several repeating instances of the same event. ("Would you like the afternoon session or the morning session?") Please allow us to change "session" to "event" or something else. A simple variable will suffice.
Finally, the documentation says that it will also interface with a component called "Events." But it doesn't tell me where or how to find this component. "Events" is a calendar component... and if that would save me time from having to enter duplicate events, that'd be fantastic. The documentation should include links to both Community Builder and Events. (What good is integration if you can't find the components to integrate with?)
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