mezzanine-events 0.1beta4

Features

• Show your visitors where to go

  • Embed a map of the location in one line of code with the Google Static Maps template tag

  • Provide a “Get Directions” link so users can go there in one click

• Let your visitors add a single event or subscribe to all future events in Google Calendar, Outlook, iCal and more with Google Calendar and webcal:// URLs and iCalendar files

• The usual stuff - dates, times, speakers, rsvp

Screenshots

These screenshots show what the plugin looks like with the default templates. To see it in action with custom templates, look at the Events page of the St Barnabas’ website.

• An event container containing one event

• An example event page

Installation

• Run pip install mezzanine-events (or, if you want to hack on mezzanine-events, clone it and run pip install -e path/to/repo)

• Add "mezzanine_events" to your INSTALLED_APPS

• Add ("^", include("mezzanine_events.urls")) to your urls.py (this is so that mezzanine-events can serve up iCalendar files).

• Set either the TIME_ZONE or MZEVENTS_TIME_ZONE settings. (If neither of these settings are set, the Google Calendar links will not work as expected.)

• Migrate your database

Usage

mezzanine-events provides two page types: “Event Container” and “Event”. The Event Container page type is the ‘Events’ (note plural) page on your website; you’ll probably want it to have a list of events. The Event page type represents a single event.

Create an Event Container page in the Mezzanine admin (naming it something like “Events”), then create your first Event page inside it (naming it with the name of your event).

Creating Templates

Settings

• MZEVENTS_GOOGLE_MAPS_DOMAIN - The Google Maps country domain to query for geocoding. Setting this accurately improves results when users forget to enter a country in the mappable address. Default: 'maps.google.com.au'.

• MZEVENTS_HIDPI_STATIC_MAPS - Whether the {% google_static_map %} template tag generates a map suitable for high DPI displays such as the MacBook Pro with Retina Display and many newer smartphones. Default: True.

• MZEVENTS_TIME_ZONE - The time zone that the event dates and times are in. Either this or the TIME_ZONE setting needs to be set.

License

Copyright (C) 2012 St Barnabas Theological College

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