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This extension does what it says. It offers a calendar to show availability on resources like apartment rentals etc. It consists of a backend component that you can use to 'block' a resource with a specific name for a period using a start and end date. Through the front end plug in, you can then display a calendar for a named resource in an article for a configurable amount of months that gives a graphic respresentation of the availability of that resource.

The component looks to still be under development, which translates into very minimal and basic instructions and documentation. But if you are somewhat familiar with joomla and the structure of components and plugins, this is more than enough to get you going.

The current version has some very minor flaws in that the English is not flawless (but that is a matter of editing a language file in the component and plug in) and I found that the Dutch language file, though included is not installed automatically, but can be placed in "administrator/language/nl-NL/" by hand and it works.

For future versions it would be nice having the ability to style plug in output (adding custom CSS option, or adding some parameters that allow you to style the layout. Now I can only make it display a vertical calendar for example (all months underneath each other), but it would be nice to allow horizontal as well.

All in all though, the extension in its current form is definitely worth giving a try!!

After some puzzling I got this module to work with a Flash file that uses an XML file to load text and Images. Unfortunately it is not documented in the modules limited docs, but you have to pass the XMLURL variable in the file's name variable:
yourswfpath.swf?XMLURL=yourxmlpath.xml

Also keep in mind that the path in your xml file to the image locations need to be resolvable by joomla!

After this I got it working for Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Apple Safari. Unfortunately FireFox does not seem to be able to find the xml and is stuck in the 'loading cycle'. If this issue can be resolved I'd give the module a 5 star Rating!

Judging from the description of this plug-in it is a great extension offering just the functionality I am looking for. A great review on this site lead to me downloading it and giving it a try, but that made it only a bigger deception when I simply could get it to do what it says 'on the tin'.

The instructions (a 5 line readme.txt)are simply way too limited to be even the slightest bit useful. Now that in itself would not even be a showstopper if only you get some support via the listed site. But on the site the developer continuely states that he is no longer able to devote the necessary time to rectify documentation issues and is no longer active in the Joomla community. Furthermore he cites that it "is the beauty of open source" that mods which are released under the GPL can be contributed to by those who "are unhappy with the documentation but have worked it out" by adding comprehensive documentation.

As it seems like a good extension that performs well if you have the programming know-how to understand how to implement the module without proper instructions by analysing its code, I would consider it again once there is comprehensive documentation available... For now I would not recommend using it...