Example of web-based event calendar

[Peter.Greulich]

Re: Example of web-based event calendar

Peter gave me the go-ahead. So how about those interested describe what other features you might want before I whip up something deliverable.

How about a forwards & backwards button to advance months back & forth? Actually, that is essential (IMHO).

[Peter.Greulich]

Re: Example of web-based event calendar

This is a proof of concept example that is quite impressive, Flex calendar demo

Yes, it seems to be quite buggy, BUT - WOW!

[Peter.Greulich]

Re: Example of web-based event calendar

...I suggest you try out a few web server tutorials first, all your questions should be answered as this.

I think Andrea has a point, but I'll answer anyway:

1. How does this get put on a page?

If you look at Peter Wayne's Xbasic for Everyone, you will see that it is just xbasic code inserted into an A5W page.

2. Is it a function call?

Nope. Although it uses one or two functions.

3. Is it a user-created web component (I don't know if there is such a thing though)?

Nope.

Yes, users can create a dialog component. I suppose any dialog component is a "user-created web component".

4. Will there need to be a calendar.dbf file or is it possible to to pass the name of the table where the info resides as well as the date field and appt description field?

Yup. You need some table to store your data. But, you could just have a calendar w/o data (and therefore no table) if that's what you wanted.

[jkletrovets]

Re: Example of web-based event calendar

Thanks Peter

I guess I did a POOR job of asking the question. :D But, your answer did help to clarify some things for me.

I guess what I was getting at was whether the calendar would be "packaged up some way" kind of like an add on (i.e. like a web version of the desktop calendar add on)? I have Dr. Wayne's book and looked at the section for the web calendar and now see you can just drop the code on a A5W page. But, I did not know if Steve was going to make it more "plug and play" as it were (or if that is even doable).

Thanks again,

Jeff

PS - Thanks for your time in answering as well Andrea.

[Peter.Greulich]

Re: Example of web-based event calendar

I guess what I was getting at was whether the calendar would be "packaged up some way" kind of like an add on (i.e. like a web version of the desktop calendar add on)? ...But, I did not know if Steve was going to make it more "plug and play" as it were (or if that is even doable).

I imagine Steve might package it somehow?

[Steve Wood]

Re: Example of web-based event calendar

I wasn't paying attention and this thread grew some. I'll try to answer the remaining questions:

Packaging: All this is is one table and one A5W page with embedded xbasic that writes HTML to the screen, defining the calendar. Taken as a whole, the xbasic looks complicated. But segmented and with detailed instructions a better than novice programmer could handle it. I don't think a novice could get far without breaking it. That's because the xbasic controls the HTML that the browser will interpret - its easy to make a small modification and screw up the HTML output (known because I made those mistakes.)

Add-in module: when V7 first came out I made several "drop in" or "pug and play" as described below where the functionality was completely controlled by a Defaults table. Using the same methods, the calendar could be coded such that you could 'drop it in" and use a Defaults table to configure it - e.g. you could assign it to a table named Events.dbf or Calendar.dbf, etc. But that abstraction increases the size of the code and makes it more difficult to follow - so it's now easier for a novice to 'configure', harder for an experienced developer to tweak the code without breaking it.

Back and Forward buttons - There is a Refresh button on the page that just Submits the page. A "back" button would just set the filter to the previous month, then Submit the page. So that is probably doable.

Delivery: I don't want to be in the business of delivering small utilities like this. So I have an idea to just provide the modified script with instructions, along with Peter's copyright information, if he asks.

[kimor]

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Steve:
What happened to the Web Calendar? Couldn't find anything on
Alpha2Go. Need a Web Calendar for a project. Any suggestion?

Thanks!

Kim

[drgarytraub]

Re: Example of web-based event calendar

I am not able to log in. Has it been disabled?

Gary

[Steve Wood]

Re: Example of web-based event calendar

I refreshed the page at http://ata.alphatogohost.com.

I removed the login and it goes straight to the calendar. I put a data-entry grid on top so you can play with adding or editing events. I made the information generic.

That's all I have time to do right now.

[kimor]

Re: Example of web-based event calendar

Steve:
Thanks, it looks great. As I understand this is a part of XBasic For Everyone?
I guess you can't supply any code due to copyrights?

Kim

[Steve Wood]

Re: Example of web-based event calendar

I have permission from Peter to share or sell; but pasting it here is probably too much. It's a small amout of code in an A5W page, but a bit hard to follow. I will put it up on my site by Wednesday or so.

[kimor]

Re: Example of web-based event calendar

OK, great!!! Thanks again!

Kim

[peteconway]

Re: Example of web-based event calendar

Thanks from me to - Peter

[drgarytraub]

Re: Example of web-based event calendar

Steve,

I'm getting a 500 - Internal Server error

Gary

[Steve Wood]

Re: Example of web-based event calendar

Fixed - just needed some cleanup, removed all files but those needed. One thing appears to be missing. Used to be if an event spanned more than one day, the event would repeat on each day. That code is around somewhere, but apparently not in the current demo.