Features of JCal Client, the Joomla calendar

Feature List

New in JCal Pro v1.6x

• Changed name to JCal Client to more clearly seperate 'JCal Pro' from the forthcoming JCal Event Server
• Support for Joomla! 1.5.x (legacy mode) in addition to Joomla! 1.0.x and Mambo 4.6.2
• Added a remote feed manager to control event feed subscriptions to JCal Server(s)
• Robust recurring event support allowing events to recurr on the "3rd Monday of the month" (for example)
• Support for recurring event exceptions to exclude a recurring event from appearing on a given date
• Frontend and backend support for Joomfish translations
• Added multicalendar support for event creation as well as a calendar manager
• Added event creator/owner, allowing for Community Builder plugins and effective use of the 'Author' usergroup
• Year-view added
• Added new languages and updated existing ones
• Fixed the common GZIP/blank page error reported by many users when trying to access the settings
• Fixed hard-return bug in Mambo
• General bug fixes and optimization

JCal Pro v1.5.x Features

• Backend event management including the publish and unpublish actions 
• Native Joomla! permissioning for categories and their associated events 
• W3C valid XHTML (Transitional) and CSS 
• Event search via the standard Joomla! search function (using a search mambot) 
• Support for importing Extcal events from database tables with 'mos_' prefixes 
• Support for the native cloakmail mambot to protect e-mail addresses from e-mail harvestors
• Support for multiple instances of the Latest Event and Mini-calendat modules 
• Ability to specify a category or categories in the Latest Events display
• Flexible support for custom ItemIDs in the Minical and Latest Event Modules

Additional Features

• Native Joomla! permissioning for event creation/management
• WYSIWYG event descriptions using the Joomla! editing mambot of your choice
• Administrative theme installation and management using the familiar Joomla! installer
• Event scheduling on a 'per-minute' basis (as opposed to 'per 15-minutes')
• Import categories and events from existing Extcalendar installations without affecting existing ExtCalendar database tables
• Newly designed and tabbed administrative back-end for easy component configuration
• Latest Events module for event listing...now works with recurring and all-day event
• Recognizes default Joomla! language settings and applies translation to the calendar if available.
• Mini-calendar module for a small calendar to fit in a standard module position
• Administrative event aproval with e-mail notification
• Back-end management/publishing of event categories
• Ranged, recurrent and all-day event support
• Multiple views for calendar including monthly, weekly, daily and category
• E-mail support for SMTP, PHP Mail, Sendmail and Qmail
• Highly customizeable event display
• MySQL 5 compatible