Category: Calendar

So I've been doing some testing on 15.x and I noticed that there is an issue with the calendars. When you click on 'Add Event' for some calendar, it opens the window that lets you change event times and whatnot, but it loads with a backdrop that prevents the user from being able to click anything. It seems to me that the backdrop is simply appearing in front of the other windows... perhaps it is an issue with the way it is assigned a z-index.

The element in question is 'modal-backdrop fade in'. It creates a gray backdrop that covers the entire screen, including the window that appears to add an event to a calendar.

The "Location" item in a calendar event's information accepts only plain text. Since meetings are often online, it would be nice if the location could be a working link. A URL can be input, but it isn't clickable. Being able to use wiki syntax (or Markdown?) would be easiest for the admin.

By the way, the form layout is messed up for this item. The label and information should be inline (side by side) like the other items, but the information is on the next line instead.

The calendar in TW6.7 does not render correctly in IE8. It shows two months worth of dates instead of the expected single month when in month view. Week view and day view render correctly in IE8, though.

Also, amazingly, the same install of TW6.7 shows the dates of the month of March when viewed with IE8 and April (the current month) when viewed in IE9 and other major standards compliant browsers.

In IE7 and IE9, when we add an event to a calendar the month calendar gadget does not open up. It only shows ...

This started after upgrading to version 6.6. We are currently using Chrome as a workaround.

UPDATE, IT GETS WORSE: SEE BELOW
The calendar Week view shows an entry one day BEHIND the event's actual date. The Day view and Month view are correct. See this example. The entry is correct, the event begins and ends on the 26th and this shows in the sidebar module and the month view, but the Week view (which the module displays when you click on an entry) is wrong.

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IT GETS WORSE

Now the event is jumping around in the calendar, and the calendar thinks it is now tomorrow. After using the site for awhile, just adding an article and reading some pages, suddenly the Calendar is wrong.
Note:
The Event has NOT been edited by anyone, yet it has changed.

Also notice in Week View the event now appears in the past, and --the calendar thinks today is tomorrow. -- The "today" display was caused by the time/date setting being set to a different time zone. The rest is still wrong.

Calendar: Completely unusable.


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P.S. It is inconvenient that I can't upload an image to this bug tracker post directly and I have to upload it to my site first. What if the problem had to do with the file gallery not working ;-)

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Activating the PlugIn FullCalendar for the display of calendar items does not show event information as expected when using the 24h display mode.
It seems that FullCalendar is not aware of the setting (12h/24h) and shows the time as AM/PM anyway.

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It is not possible to delete a calendar as long it contains a recurring event. The User does not get proper feedback as why he can not delete the calendar.

The module upcoming_events does not indicate whether an all-day event lasts longer than one day. Such an event is only listed once on its first day. If the end date of events, that don't last all day is not displayed (parameter showEnd=y), an event lasting multiple days is indistinguishable from an event lasting only a few minutes.

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Report doesn't seem to filter by date as it's supposed to do.

I select to list only values after a date (by the way, how does report know that this field is supposed to be the start date? just because is the first one of a couple of consecutive date fields in a tracker?), and value before that date are also shown.

I mean, we have a tracker with several date fields (4 in fact) for project management:
* when the project was requested
* when the project started
* when the project is due to be finished
* the date of the next deadline to meet within the project timeframe.

Ideally, the user should be offered the option to select which tracker field want to use as a start date for the filter, and which one as the end date for the filter. And not just the creation date or the modification date.

Right now, it seems to be using either the creation or modification date of the tracker item? (which is less useful and less versatile than what it could be with the previous improvement of the design)

The other things that might be affecting the missbehavior of the filtering by date is that the date field in a tracker can be set either by using the "Date and time" tracker field, and the "Date and time (Date Picker)" (jquery) tracker field.
See http://doc.tiki.org/Date+Tracker+Fields

They both seem (from the end user point of view) to have different way to store data:
* JQuery date picker from the tracker-field "Date and time (Date Picker)" seems to use this syntax for dates: __yyyy-mm-dd__
* JQuery date picker from the Report Builder (tiki-edit_report.php) Start and End dates, seems to use this syntax for dates: __dd/mm/yyyyy__

Maybe this is also interfering in the filtering by dates?

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There is a mouse over pop up ''short view of events'' in calendar module. Options there are export, edit, delete or view, and finally close the pop up. It seems the value of parameter __calitemId__ is missing there.
At the calendar page's click event pop up (which shows more information) the value is correct.

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In a calendar event's (click) pop up (not calendar module with mouse over) there is a strange behaviour with URLs:

1) If event description starts with an external link, this link is shown with name of calender, further description ommittet.

2) If event description contains an external link, the description before this link is shown, the link is shown with name "Calendar: $name_of_calendar", and further description is omittet.

Maybe the problem extends to internal links (not tested yet).

Recently, I went into Admin and turned off one of the features in Admin at tiki-admin.php?page=features. The feature was Calendar in Global Features. But that brought up a problem that I was able to investigate in my host server's error logs:

.../tiki-calendar.php
PHP Warning: PDO::query(): SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1226 User ... has exceeded the 'max_questions' resource (current value: 75000) in .../wiki/lib/core/TikiDb/Pdo.php on line 78

PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in .../wiki/db/tiki-db.php on line 152

PHP Warning: PDO::query(): SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1226 User ... has exceeded the 'max_que ...
... /wiki/tiki-lastchanges.php

I created a set of 2 recurring events on a weekly basis: two consecutive mondays, and set the time from 10:00 h (a.m.), and duration of 4h (so end time should be 14:00h, e.g. 2:00 p.m.)

Once the events are created in the calendar, they show wrong end date. I think I created them today at 9:16 or so. So the end date is something like 10:16h, instead of 14:00h.

I'm using Full calendar interface, interface in Catalan (I wonder if this matters), and an updated version of Tiki9.x (svn), r44454


I edited then the first event in the calendar, selected the right end time (not by means of duration but by means of explicit end time: 14:00h) , selected to update all events from the recurrence rule, and saved.
The second event did not get the end date fixed, but still showed the old end time 10:16h.

The "((doc:PluginTrackerCalendar))" (fullcalendar resourceviews) needs annual view (for project management)

Because real projects last more than just a month... and managers want to see the evolution over time (monthts)

Moreover, we need "filters" for up to 3 tracker fields to control de display of data from the tracker

3 tracker fields because you usually want to review by:
(1) user/s,
(2) dates,
(3) a field related to the project itself (priority, custom field such as project type, etc)

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A basic attempt is using plugin custom search, but I don't yet get the right syntax to filter events in the trackercalendar based on the results of the dynamic filter specified by the user.
Reproduced:
http://xavi-9794-4391.show.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php
u: admin
p: 12345

This tracker is made to help filtering and sorting the features vs categories vs options we need to tag a bug/regression/wish with.

Changing date of a calendar event sends a watch email with the former date

This should be migrated to the community site, and handled with ((doc:Organic groups)) and ((doc:User Trackers))

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JavaScript pop-up calendars get hidden behind CSS "layers" in Trackers, especially when using the tabbed view. I've noticed this problem with more than one theme (Strasa and Tikipedia). It's a shame, since the popup calendar (or date picker) is such a useful tool, and works well in the 4.0 Add Calendar Item interface.

Workaround - Turn "tabs" off when inserting a new item, or else use the date selector control (not as nice) also provided with trackers.

The hidden date picker / popup calendar occurs in the latest versions of Explorer and Firefox, so it doesn't seem to be a browser problem, but rather a stylesheet problem (?).

~~#f00:__UPDATE - DEC 16, 2009__~~

This bug has been seen before...
http://dev.tikiwiki.org/tiki-view_tracker_item.php?itemId=1585&show=view&trackerId=5

The "fix" can be made locally - see workaround below

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As mentioned on subject: jquery datepicker should appear in a translated version with other site languages than english. But it doesn't.

E.g. look at the datepicker on [http://i18n.tiki.org/tiki-calendar.php].

It remains in english even if the site language is changed.

(17:34:00) snarlydwarf: god, i love tiki.
(17:34:37) snarlydwarf: "why are you haveing people go to a tracker, lookie, heres a wiki page that looks prettier but still fills out the tracker form"
(17:37:18) snarlydwarf: oooh, someone with commit wanna fix an annoying jscal feature?
(17:37:41) snarlydwarf: at line 745 of lib/jscalender/calendar.js
(17:37:57) snarlydwarf: in the 'this.isPopup' clause
(17:38:36) snarlydwarf: add div.style.zIndex = "300";
(17:38:51) snarlydwarf: so the dumb calender doesnt pop up behind tabs
(17:39:09) snarlydwarf: 300 seems sufficient to be 'higher' than other items on the page
(17:39:44) snarlydwarf: you can see this if you have a jscal input in a tracker and use tabs
(17:40:05) snarlydwarf: (at least in 1.10)
(17:40:41) nyloth: snarlydwarf: thanx. Don't hesitate to commit this, or to send it to the devel mailing list

# Create a field of type JSCalendar
# go entering a new tracker item
and see weird behaviour:

__With Konqueror:__
* JSCalendar opens
* You can select a date
* Clicking besides the calendar closes it
* The field still reads the current date, that was shown, when starting to create the tracker item

__With FireFox:__
* JSCalendar opens
* You can select a date
* JSCalendar is closed immediately
* The date field is empty

Saving the Tracker item saves the always the current date and time with both browsers

Minor annoyances:
-Manually entered times in "add item" do not always show up in the calendar as entered (often an hour off). Simply editing the item and re-entering the time fixes this.

-I ran across a limit on the number of calendar items. I had entered a large list of events and later ones disappeared from tha calendar -even in whole year view. I deleted old events and they came back. maybe this is isolated.

-If I mistakenly created a calendar, I could not delete it until it had at least one event entered.

Nice to haves:
-Some way of differentiating calendar entires from different calendars when they are combined. Ex:one calendar shows events people can go to volunteer to actually do something , one shows speaking engagements people can go and listen to. I now simply use HTML bold tags in the description of one of the calendars. This works but maybe some other way? Colors, different font perhaps?

-Ability to easily add link for a Google Map. Perhaps fields to enter address info and then auto generate a map link. Google Maps has this and can be put into a Tiki page but Google Maps lacks important features, like a list view and multiple calendars, that Tiki Calendar has.