[geeklog-devel] FW: Events Block behavior for today's events

[Mark Howard]

Hi Michael -

Thanks - the 'as expected' was the subjective portion of the discussion.

If by as expected you meant that the events were disappearing from the list
immediately following (1 second past) the start of the event, that is not
the behavior that most people would seem to expect.  

The block is clearly titled "Upcoming Events", and therefore in the most
literal interpretation of that term, you would certainly think the prior
behavior was correct, but when you consider an "All Day" event or even a
timed event that spans several days, or you wanted to ensure folks knew the
details about a 6 hour event occurring on the current day, the block was not
as useful.

What a number of people seem to need (including several of my clients) is an
"Upcoming Events" block which also contains all of the day's events, even if
they have started (or ended for that matter).

I actually suggested a config variable, allowing both behaviors, I wouldn't
propose to impose any particular strict interpretation of how this is
supposed to work.

BTW - I see Mantis is up, and the bug is registered (thanks Dirk!).

I'd be happy to submit this as a patch, what is the methodology, and who
should it be submitted to?

Thanks, and best regards.

-m


-----Original Message-----
From: geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net
[mailto:geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net] On Behalf Of Michael Jervis
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:37 AM
To: Geeklog Development
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] FW: Events Block behavior for today's events

I looked into it and it works as expected in current CVS.

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Mark Howard <mark at the-howards.net> wrote:
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> Hi Dirk -
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> Just a reminder - was this ever fixed?
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> Thanks!
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> From: geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net
> [mailto:geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net] On Behalf Of Mark Howard
>  Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 5:15 PM
>  To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net
>  Subject: [geeklog-devel] Events Block behavior for today's events
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> Hi -
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> Is there a mantis/bugtracker active?  If not, what is the most appropriate
> method to report bugs?
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> I'd like to check to see if the Calendar plugin maintainer has updated
> phpblock_calendar() for 1.5 so that it will result in the display of the
> current day's events (at least as an option).  The fix I have implemented
> here is to change the query to utilize CURDATE() instead of NOW(), which
> allows for events in the current day to be included.
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> I know, there's a fine line between a bug and a feature request (grin),
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> I guess this one is in the category of what you would think the behavior
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> Thanks!
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