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    new ..calendar component in v11

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1.../edit?hl=en_US
    Richard Rabins
    Co Chairman
    Alpha Software

    #2
    Re: new ..calendar component in v11

    That looks exciting! The videos referred to a license required to publish the calendar component to a host server. Can you give us some information about that license and its cost, or is it part of the Alpha subscription?
    Carol King
    Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
    http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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      #3
      Re: new ..calendar component in v11

      I was told it was part of the subscription by email from a sales person at alpha and nothing else was needed to make it work, which is true but missleading. As per Selwyn's video it can only be used on localhost without a license so I contacted the seller direct and just had an email from [email protected] that says I need a single user license ($499) to get it to work over our intranet.

      Been waiting ages for this to become available, followed the videos earlier and got it working by publishing to local host. Found quite a few glitches and also things that are not very good about this particular calendar over the last few hours. So I will be looking at others and ways of working with them in a custom component.

      Not very happy!

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        #4
        Re: new ..calendar component in v11

        When you refer to 'glitches', do you mean Alpha bugs, or problems with that web2cal component itself? I guess what I'm asking is, do the glitches seem to be something Alpha can possibly fix? Your post makes me think I might wait awhile to try this....
        Carol King
        Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
        http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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          #5
          Re: new ..calendar component in v11

          There are both.

          If you follow Selwyn's video you will be able to get the calendar up and running. (I did have to put a bugs folder on my C: drive to get rid of a server 500 error).

          Once my calendar was rendering, I obviously wanted to play around. Entered a few events, a couple of all dayers etc. Found the all day events were not persisting and reverting to a timed entry. Not a great problem, only needed the dialog component to bind to the allday field.

          The web2cal component itself has a few shortcommings unless, it seems, you pay for the all singing all dancing version. ($1499). I personally think the left navigation pane is ugly! If you switch it off, the calendar chooser becomes a very nice show/hide item, but there then seems to be no way of navigating from month to month unless I am missing something. Don't seem to be able to have multi-all-day-events, therefore you have to put an entry in 10 times if someone takes 2 weeks leave!

          I am sure I will find more problems, but so far I have only been playing for a few hours.

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            #6
            Re: new ..calendar component in v11

            Thanks, Lance, for being the tester/reporter for all of us forum users. :) Will be curious to hear what else you discover. At my level of inexperience in web development, I do appreciate that Alpha is taking on that calendar and writing code that will make it much easier for me to integrate a calendar component into my project. I can't even imagine me trying to do that on my own. So I'm cheering them on towards perfection of it, which I'm absolutely sure is their goal.

            Did I read somewhere that there will be associated charts (and possibly Gantt charts) that go with the calendar component? Or am I imagining that just because I'd love to have that for home builder scheduling?
            Carol King
            Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
            http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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              #7
              Re: new ..calendar component in v11

              I seem to remember seeing something about Gantt charts as well, but can't find anything on it now. Being in the construction industry they would be more applicable than the calendar component.

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                #8
                Re: new ..calendar component in v11

                more testing done, the calendar navigation is there with the left navigator turned off, the icons are just not rendering. Bubble help comes up where the buttons are and you can get a mini calendar to pop up

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                  #9
                  Re: new ..calendar component in v11

                  Are you reporting these things to Alpha? Do you need us to send care packages as you explore this uncharted territory for us?
                  Carol King
                  Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
                  http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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                    #10
                    Re: new ..calendar component in v11

                    I did report the issue with the folder to Selwyn. The others are more niggles that I can work around, but as the work is so gruelling I will take any packages you wish to send!

                    Beer always welcome

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                      #11
                      Re: new ..calendar component in v11

                      Lance - glad that you are playing with it. I'm in there now as well. The licensing issue DOES concern me. Thank you for pointing out the "bugs" folder issue.

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                        #12
                        Re: new ..calendar component in v11

                        Because the calendar component is of the utmost importance for me in near future i also started exploring. Got it "working" at local host en encountered already the same weird things as Lance. (But according to Wiki it is also not ready for testing yet....).

                        Lance / Jeff could you pls go into detail about "bugs folder" : what is this and what is the cure ?

                        Have problem with live preview mode: editing doesn't seem to work at all in this mode?


                        I already brougt to Selwyns attention the way the licence is stored: i will need it for multiple customers (if they can afford :-() and the publishing will be a nightmare if it has to be stored in the calendar component itself instead of the webprofile i think.

                        Also I need localization in dutch language, this might become a breaking point for my customers i'm afraid if it will not become available
                        Ger Kurvers
                        Alpha Anywhere / V4.6.1.9- Build 6488 (production) / V4.6.5.1 - 8722-5683(testing)
                        Development: Mysql, windows 10 64 Applicationserver: standard on Windows server 2019

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                          #13
                          Re: new ..calendar component in v11

                          I knew what Lance was talking about when he mentioned the Bugs folder. I had that happen to me before and Selwyn then told me he had left some code in that was trying to refer to a Bugs folder on the C drive that he uses. So until I got the next update, I created a Bugs folder on my C folder and got rid of the error while I was working. We even created one on our deployment servers... (just in case).
                          Carol King
                          Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
                          http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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                            #14
                            Re: new ..calendar component in v11

                            Has anyone tried to publish the free version of Web2Cal to an external test server? I'm pretty sure that the Web2Cal licensing stuff requires you to link back to their site. I'm fighting with it but haven't found exactly what they are after. Has anybody done this - and if so, where did you put the link? Bottom line question - if I'm trying to build a test calendar setup and have it on the web where I can hit it - what do I need to do to meet all of the fun licensing requirements?

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                              #15
                              Re: new ..calendar component in v11

                              I do not see how you can make the calendar component inherit the style of the Dialog box�..has anyone had any luck with this or will the calendar always have the same color scheme?
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