Buddyvents – New Events Plugin
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Hey All,
last sunday I found out that a recent project needed an events plugin. Being not too happy (for various not really relevant reasons) with the current solutions I quickly whipped one up. You can have a look here: http://test.shabushabu.eu/events/.
Every member can publish an event, but if you’re also a group admin you can attach an event to one of your groups. Coordinates get automatically geocoded from the location. Event activity gets displayed on the events page and an event can be edited and features an overview page of all members.
The messages component is needed as that handles all the invitations. It also needs the friends plugin for the autocompletion to invite members to work.
There’s a bit more so if you want to have a play, go ahead…
Here’s a feature list:
* Events can be created by any user
* Events can be attached to a group, if the event creator is a group admin
* Event Privacy that includes group integration
* Activity stream integration
* Friends component integration (used for invitations)
* Event comments
* Events search
* RSS Feeds for groups and users
* Geocoded locations for events
* Google Maps v3 overview of all events
* Adds basic information like address to groups
* Sidebar Widget
* Support for BP-Moderation
* Calendar integration
* Restrict number of attendees
* Recurrent events (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly)
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I like the way you “whipped one up”, with geocoding to boot!
It’s simple, elegant, and has all the required elements. Nice touch with the date picker too
Creating an event and uploading an image is a snap.Noticed 1 thing not working though: “Show new events” activity filter displays “…no activity” message.
Darn… now that I’ve created an event, I wanted to edit it, but I can’t access the site anymore… EDIT: never mind that…it’s back.
Like @Mike, can I “get my hands on it” too?
As far as getting your hands on it, it’s still not certain that I’ll be able to release it. Keep your fingers crossed
As for your bug reports, it’s all been fixed, thank you. Plus I added in some minor improvements.
definitely keep us posted, I’d totally pay to not use jet events anymore. unless yours doesn’t have american am/pm time either
The events plugin is looking good.
If you would add the capability of group events would be cool.@svenl77
The plugin still needs some work to properly check for hidden and private groups. I’ll have to do some fancy db querying to get there, but it’s in the works
The plugin as it is now is ready for release, but our online shop needs another 2 days, so the release date now is this monday (11. Oct.). I’ll have the group stuff properly sorted by then.Restricting the attendees is a good idea, so I’ll put that on the roadmap. Right now it’s not possible
I’ve set up a new testsite running on BP 1.2.5.2 and the compatible BuddyVents (I know, what a stupid name
) version:
http://buddyvents.jobboardr.com/@svenl77
The events calendar is now fully compatible with private/hidden groups. To see a public event for a private/hidden group the loggedin user needs to be a member of that group. If the event is private the user needs to be a group member and be invited to the event for the event to show up.That was the easy bit. Now I’ll have to do the same thing for the loop
I’ll have a look at restricting registration to a certain number of people over the weekend as well.
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