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    Alpha Calendar, Flash Calendar Drag and Drop

    As you might now know Alpha Calendar Pro is an alpha five app that lets you connect your Alpha Five Tables (or SQL) to Flash Calendar(the third party calendar software) without having to code anything.

    Some people have ask me for drag and drop functionality on Alpha Calendar Pro which to this date is not possible (Maybe version 2.0 will have it).

    In the other hand Flash Calendar does has this functionality by its self on what they call the Administrative Mode, the drawback is that the info would not be stored in your tables (it is automatically stored in an Xml file that works as a back end) besides some of the other nit features you get when using Alpha Calendar Pro with Flash Calendar like filtering the events in the calendar by logged user or any other session variable you want.

    Because some people might find this kind off setup useful I prepared the next video on how to setup Flash calendars administrative mode

    http://screencast.com/t/MjIyYTNkZW

    With that said Alpha Calendar Pro could be of great help even on this scenario because if you already have a table with events alpha calendar would export it automatically to the XML file so you can start using the calendar, besides you can change the look and labels of the calendar without having to manually edit the xml files and without coding

    NOTE: when using Alpha Calendar Pro Full Functionality you dont need to install a PHP server or any additional software other than Alpha Five, Flash Calendar and Alpha Calendar Pro
    Last edited by mmaisterrena; 12-06-2009, 09:41 PM.
    Cheers
    Mauricio

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    Re: Alpha Calendar, Flash Calendar Drag and Drop

    For more info on intalling XAMPP go to

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWRB-...om=PL&index=41
    Cheers
    Mauricio

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      #3
      Re: Alpha Calendar, Flash Calendar Drag and Drop

      there is one more thing you should change in the Apache config file that I forgot to mention
      Search for "<Directory" and set the path to your webroot (the same path you wrote on the "DocumentRoot" setting)

      eg
      <Directory "C:/A5Webroot">

      So in total you will change 4 settings in the httpd.conf file
      1. Listen (your Port)
      2. ServerName (your computer name : your port)
      3. DocumentRoot (path to a5webroot)
      4. Directory (path to a5webroot)
      Cheers
      Mauricio

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        #4
        Re: Alpha Calendar, Flash Calendar Drag and Drop

        Looks like FileMaker will soon offer a calendar with full drag and drop abilitities to change the database when calendar items are moved to a different date. I hope someday Alpha Five developers will also have similar functionality.

        You mentioned that drag and drop functionality may be available with version 2.0. Does this mean that the drag and drop is dependent on this control and not on Alpha Five? Is there something that Alpha Five has done in their design that inherently prevents Alpha Five applications from having a smooth drag and drop action.


        Below is the email I received on 11/30/09.

        Bob McGaffic
        Pittsburgh, PA

        ========================================================
        Sneak Peek: Our Next FileMaker Calendar

        Faster, easier to modify, and now with drag & drop
        We've been rethinking our calendar template since we first got our hands on FileMaker10. Would this let us make the calendar faster? Could we make something simple enough it could be pasted into your own files? And could we finally get drag and drop working without plugins?

        Check out this preview and see how close we are.

        We should be releasing this soon and wanted to share this with those of you who are already using our calendar or who are planning to.


        Can't Wait?
        Things you can do right now
        � Get your questions answered, or ask some: it's still early, but learn about what our plans are for features, upgrades paths, and make suggestions here: SeedCode: Next

        � If you know someone you think might be able to use this: tell them about it. FWD this to them and ask them to subscribe to this newsletter where we'll make our next announcements.

        � The new calendar can use your existing events table(s), and pastes into your file. So keep building what you're working on, knowing that you'll be able to add this calendar to it.

        � Bolting on a calendar is a great way to add a ton of value to existing solutions without a lot of effort. So if you need a calendar right now, buy SeedCode Calendar Pro and get a free upgrade to the new one when it ships.

        � Or take a look at one of the new calendar solutions below that are available right now...

        =========================================================

        seedcode.com
        Last edited by rmcgaffic; 12-07-2009, 06:28 PM.

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          #5
          Re: Alpha Calendar, Flash Calendar Drag and Drop

          Altough Alpha Calendar will let you connect Flash Calendar to your tables in A5 (or sql), Flash Calendar as its name Implies is a Flash plugin so its functionality is independent from that of Alpha Five.

          You should notice that Drag n Drop functionality isn't a that common on web apps in general (Alpha , PHP, ASP etc.) this is because HTML was not originally created for the development and deployment of applications (HTML 5 will supposedly change that).
          I Know there are some people that are doing some experimentation with drag n drop functionality on Alpha Five v10 through the use of third party JavaScript libraries and other techniques I just chose this plugin because of all its functionality and the fact that it uses XML as a source which makes it simpler to connect to any database,

          FileMaker must be using one of this technique/plugins I mentioned besides the power and flexibility of alpha with their Codeless Ajax is far superior to any RAD software in the market right now, FileMaker just feels like you are "boxed" to a bunch of predefined templates.
          Cheers
          Mauricio

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