• Usability
• Feature request
• Consistency
• Less than 30-minutes fix

Hi,

I have tested and look at dev of the module Action Calendar on 6.0 and 6.x trunk.
It need to be polished.
There are some misfit.
Who read this must understand that the function where not ended for 6.0
This note is technical sometime for a good link to dev team.

The item 3650 relates that the popup which shows action buttons can't be reached.

In fact as the function is not polished the buttons are the same as module calendar, but they have not corresponding available functions.

As I test to set these popup as "sticky" it function as the main calendar. After I test various issues :

1. Action link on the cell of a day -> go to show a calendar of a full week. Can display thousands of events.
2. Buttons on popup goes quite nowhere

Module Action calendar

Note that any cell is related to several events then any action must leads to a list of events,

What can be wished :

Global action buttons (nav.tpl):

Add a button to go directly to calendar for the current span of time (day,week, month..), two buttons : calendar or list (to earn time) in the future 7.x full page calendar

Action on the link of the cell (day)

Display the list of "events" (sometimes truncated into the popup as it is desirable) for the corresponding date "day".

The list offers

• Link to the object
• Add a comment to event (first column of list)
• type of event , not already made

Action on popup buttons

Any button which have action opens and operates on the list of events of the day. *The buttons can't be the same as main calendar

• As the events are system events they can't be updated neither deleted.
• The update could be to add a comment to but as it is a list... for the day it is into the list.
  • the events can't be edited, but an enhancement can be to have the capability to add comment
  • the events can be listed for the day (the function is not edit_item but calendar with date="date" viewmode=day and listmode=list)
  • a button on the popup can activate directly the calendar view with options of time span "day, week, month" or list with same options

Module Main calendar

Note that any cell is related to several events then any action must leads to a list of events,

What can be wished :

Global action buttons (nav.tpl):

Add a button to go directly to calendar for the current span of time (day,week, month..), two buttons : calendar or list (to earn time) in the future 7.x full page calendar. Options : view only, view and add comment (if rights opened), edit

Action on the link of the cell (day)

Display the list of "events" (sometimes truncated into the popup as it is desirable) for the corresponding date "day".

The list offers

• Button update
• Button delete
• Button copy and edit
• Button repeat the object (daily, weakly, monthly, trimestrial, yearly, fiexed date - checked on calendar) option edit list generated after
• Link to the object
• Add a comment to event (first column of list)
• type of event , not already made, edit types (a structure only for events classification), modify type (check on structure)

Action on popup buttons

Any button which have action opens and operates on the list of events of the day. The buttons can be

• Show the list (right can be only "show_calendar items" and not "edit")
• Display the list in edit mode
• As there are several event they can't be updated neither deleted directly only defined upon the list.
• Depending of opened rights the update button could be "show full list : can add comment " if right opened

Notes :

• the events can be listed for the day (the function is not edit_item but calendar with date="date" viewmode=day and listmode=list)

For 7.x :

Calendar with Gantt presentation

Calendar content can content several types of objects with various rights.

See corresponding text (the link to wished features projects for 7.x about calendar will be here soon ###)

Around :

• seems to need a more elaborated js function to display popup (90% repeated, many lines generated)
• params seems to need more levels and options vars and tpl enhancements (for example the display of the list of event of a day can't be launch, because the parameter for time span is common with calendar display, the list span must depend of the cell (link) definition not of the calendar, in other cases than the common buttons.

I stopped investigations after understanding the structure of programs and vars, this to evaluate what is reasonable to ask as enhancements.

trebly - 12/04/2010

Walking on

• Trebly leads
• Gilles Maire ready to spend sometime on.

• __Needs informations about what have been done and what not.
• Which aims and functions are known not have been implemented or not finished. The list of pieces of soft concerned (may be my inventory is not complete). Who, authors (partial list) ?__
  • $Id: mod-calendar_new.tpl 28831 2010-09-01 13:08:26Z sylvieg $
  • tiki-calendar_calmode.tpl ?
  • $Id: tiki-action_calendar.php 25076 2010-02-11 15:53:20Z changi67 $
  • mod-func-calendar_new.php
  • tiki-calendar_listmode.tpl
  • $Id: calendarlib.php 31363 2010-12-10 23:17:39Z chealer $
  • $Id: tiki-calendar.php 31256 2010-12-07 15:32:00Z sept_7 $
  • $Id: tiki-calendar_setup.php 28590 2010-08-18 12:02:24Z sylvieg $
  • tiki-calendar_box.tpl
  • prefs and calendar default parameters : one new option

Other after systematic inventory of the span

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