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[curvesahead]

Can you make a category specific to one calendar and not show on other calendars in multi calendar site?  Or will all calendars show all categories?

Thanks, Maria

[PepsimanAB]

I've been looking into doing something similar to this to my own jcal calendar, but haven't had the time to try to code it yet.  But rather than assigning categories to specific calendars, It would probably be easier to just have the legend only show the categories that are present in the current calendar that is showing.  I look forward to seeing this in one of the upcoming releases.

[hxgee]

I have a similar question.  In trying to understand the multiple calendar setup, when I  create an event from the front end, I need to specify a category as well as the desired calendar. If I specify a different calendar than the main calendar, the entry gets captured to the main as well for that  category. The same is not true if I specify the main calendar - the other calendar does not reflect that event.  Is this expected behaviour?  Should the main calendar capture all events?  Thanks in advance.

[terryatpace]

My conclusions after testing for a bit are:
- multi-calendar is a great feature, but not quite what i was hoping for.  I can successfully have multiple calendars, with events submitted from the front-end and diverted to each calendar.  The main calendar will display all events from all calendars.
- there is no way to share events from a non-main calendar to another non-main calendar, regardless of what category is used.

Great project, will definitely be using it as the official calendar for a church website.  However, I want to have a separate calendar for liturgists, but include the holiday events from the main calendar in the liturgist calendar.  I don't think this can be done.  So therefore I would need to direct users to the main calendar (eventually will have too many events, am unlikely to use it except for the content admins to review), or duplicate holidays to both the main, liturgist, and other calendars.

Another option which I am considering is to use the latest event module, since that does allow filtering and aggregating of categories.  So from the liturgist page, I would embed the module in a page, allow 50+ events to be listed, and leave it at that.  It wouldn't be very intuitive though.

[curvesahead]

Thanks for the info Pepsiman.  Can you direct me to where I can find the legend for the individual calendars so I can edit which categories to display?

Thanks!!

[PepsimanAB]

Unfortunately, right now there isn't a legend for individual calendars.  It shows all categories in all calendars.

My point was just that when it comes to usability, it's probably easier to just have it automatically hide the non-used categories, rather than making each user go through every one of their calendars to choose which categories they want to show in the legend for each one.

If I have the time to write some type of mod to do this, I'll post it here so that the developers can consider it for in a future release.  I'll probably wait at least until their next beta (or maybe RC) release though.  They might've already added this feature into their upcoming release.  After all, it's still just a beta and there will be a lot of changes.

[V-man]

This has not been added so far. When the next beta comes out, i think this would be a good mod.

[PepsimanAB]

V-man,

It seems like the function get_active_categories() would probably be the one of the better spots to make this modification.  Right now, it seems to be only called from within the display_cat_legend function.  If this continues to be the case, then I can alter it w/o changing anything other than the legend.  Do you happen to know if this will continue to be the case, or are there plans to use get_active_categories() for other aspects of jcal?

Sorry if my question is confusing, sometimes it's hard to put php concepts into English.  Let me know if there's any way that I can clarify.  This legend issue and the current lack of a printable view are quite possibly my only 2 problems with what happens to be one of the best calendars that I've found, so I'm looking forward to trying to find/create solutions.