monet.calendar.star 1.1.0

A complete and modular site calendar application for Plone

Contents

• Introduction

• Features

  • Use multiple calendar: “Calendar root” sections

  • New calendar portlet

  • Special event types

  • Plone4Artists Calendar integration

• Dependencies tree

• Requirements

• Credits

• Authors

• Changelog

  • 1.1.0 (2011-05-10)

  • 1.0.0 (2011-03-18)

Introduction

The Monet Calendar suite (also monet.calendar.star) is a complete event managing solution for Plone, inspired by needs of the City of Modena. Is widely used for managing all kind of events.

This is only a transitional package, for downloading and installing all other products in the suite in a simple way.

Features

We want to give to Plone an event type that:

• hide totally the “time” data (managed as simple text)

• give a closed (but configurable) set of type of events

• the days of weeks where really the event take place

• be able to manage special days where the event don’t take place

• a lot of additional text information

See the monent.calendar.event page for know how to configure the event.

Additionally one or more Plone folder can be marked as “Calendar section” in a new “Calendar” menu.

Entries inside the new “Calendar menu”

This mean that this folder can use the “Calendar view” that show events in the current day, taken (by default, see below) from all the site events. This search take care of counting exceptions and days of the week of events.

The “Calendar view”

Every event (and the also calendar sections) will also show a new “search” section at the top. This form can be used to perform a search on events of the calendar.

The search form on events

The form can be used to expand the search to more than one day, showing a summary of all events, per-day

Search results on multiple days

Use multiple calendar: “Calendar root” sections

Using again the “Calendar menu” you can also mark folder as “Calendar root”. This is useful when using a Plone filled of subsites, where you can have a main calendar that look at every event in the site, but also additional sub-calendars (inside many calendar roots).

When a calendar perform searches inside a Calendar root, it will only look for events inside the calendar root itself

Same search above, but on a local calendar (“Subsite 1” there is a “Calendar root” section)

New calendar portlet

The calendar construction is expensive, and not good to be used in a portlet of the site, where is visible (in the worst case, also not cached) in every page of the site.

When you install the monet.calendar.extension product, the calendar portlet is replaced with a version that:

• not show anymore events in a specific day

• every cell is a link that perform a day-search in the nearest calendar

“Nearest calendar” mean that if the visitor is inside a “calendar root” section he will be moved to the calendar of that section, otherwise a global calendar section will be used.

You can also install an additional portlet from the monet.calendar.portlet product. This portlet gives you a way to select a calendar section in the site, then display it in a portlet (in the same way you can see him in the calendar section itself).

Note

The portlet is designed to be used with collective.portletpage. Using it in a narrow column portlet must be fixed by your Plone theme!

Special event types

From ZMI (see also monet.calendar.event configuration) you can specify one or more event type as “special”. Those are then highlighted in the single day view, below the categorizations done for the time of event.

Examples:

• Morning

• Afternoon

• Evening

• YouEventType

Plone4Artists Calendar integration

The suite were originally done for working with p4a.calendar. The compatibility code is still there, but has not been tested in latests releases.

Dependencies tree

You can freely install single components of the suite, that are:

• monet.recurring_event

  • p4a.plonecalendar (optional, see above)

  • rt.calendarinandout

    • collective.js.jqueryui

• monet.calendar.event

• monet.calendar.extensions

• monet.calendar.portlet (optional, see above)

Requirements

The monet.calendar.star solution works onto:

• Plone 3.2

• Plone 3.3

• Plone 4

Under Plone 4 the integration with the “Sunburst theme” is not perfect. See also #11474.

Credits

Developed with the support of Rete Civica Mo-Net - Comune di Modena; Rete Civica Mo-Net supports the PloneGov initiative.

Authors

This product was developed by RedTurtle Technology team.

Changelog

1.1.0 (2011-05-10)

• Added to the suite the new monet.calendar.portlet product [keul]

• updated documentation [keul]

1.0.0 (2011-03-18)

• first release