Features / Usability

Posted by George Greene 21 Aug 2008 17:15 GMT-0000 posts: 257

I should first say I appreciate the work that folks who know hpow to code do on Tiki.

I do have to agree the calendar programming lost it's way. Just as I had 1.9.xx templates and script tweaked to kinda work right, 1.10 (or 2.0) came out with a whole new way of generating the calendar and my fixes did not work anymore and none of the problems were solved.

So, I bailed entirely and have been just tickled pink with iFraming a Google calendar into my Tiki. It adheres to the ical standard which now leaves Tiki calendar in the dust. It's free, very powerful and even ha a little code generator to make the iFrame code for you. It's hidden a little, choose settings, choose one of your calendars and them "customize" to get to the code generator) Just paste that code on a Wiki page and there you have it -(You might need a code plug in, I don't remember).

Google Calendar also lets you subscribe to other calendars and include them in yours. Other iCal compliant calendars can subscribe to yours. I have I think 15 calendars in our system. Also you can invite up to 500 e-mail addresses to an event -and they can RSVP! And so much more I just had to bail on Tiki calendar. (You will like Tiki for all the other fine features though!)

Take a gander -I even have two versions of essentially the same calendar on one page -one slimmed down to include only a few calendars and another with all 15 or so:

CD3 Events Calendar