Calendar Planner compatible with EasySocial
By Randall McCallum on Friday, 25 July 2014
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Hello,


Got an email today with notification about a new extension called Calendar Planner.


Create and share events with your users using beautiful calendar views in Joomla. Either to plan your own private schedule, or to share public calendar events that your users can see in your site, Calendar Planner is the best Event Management tool for Joomla! and the most intuitive and easy to use, thanks to its brilliant, JavaScript and Bootstrap powered User Interface, and its AJAX connection to the server for non-intrusive, smooth navigation for your users.

The basic features provided by Calendar Planner

Users can create their own events and calendars, if you allow it
E-mail alerts that everyone can set up if they want
Ajax powered, fast and smooth
Drag & Drop interface, resize, create events in frontend
Colorful calendars for your events
Private or public events
Geo-location for events, and maps (Google Maps integration)
Repeat events (recurring events)
Beautiful full-screen view that feels almost like a native app
Search events, filter by date, name, category...
Export calendars to iCal for importing to Google Calendar, Apple iCal, Outlook...
Upcoming events module
Mini calendar module
Multi-language support, settings for calendar start day and such
And also...

Integrated with JomSocial (display JomSocial events in Calendar Planner)
Integrated with EasySocial (display EasySocial events in Calendar Planner)

If you want to see more features added for EasySocial the Joomlathat team is open to it.

Missing something?

We are always looking for new useful features to add to Calendar Planner. We love to listen to what our customers say to see what we can add to the software so it gets more and more useful to the users looking for a simple but powerful and usable Calendar tool for Joomla.

If your request is very specific, we can develope customly for you in our Custom Coding Service!

For more info.
http://www.joomlathat.com/calendar-planner
Thanks for sharing this Randall
Mark
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Friday, 25 July 2014 10:32
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Mark wrote:

Thanks for sharing this Randall


Your welcome Mark,

It looks like a very interesting extension for calendar planning and events. I'm going to take a closer look using my laptop tomorrow.
Randall McCallum
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Friday, 25 July 2014 11:07
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If you end up trying it out, let me know how it works.
Jannik L.
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Friday, 25 July 2014 15:33
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Looks nice. How does compare to the upcoming ES Events?
Bright Ibeawuchi
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Saturday, 26 July 2014 00:15
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Bright Ibeawuchi wrote:

Looks nice. How does compare to the upcoming ES Events?


I am curious about the same thing. ????

Not sure how extensive ES Events is compared to this new Calendar and Event extension. The JoomlaThat Team makes very good extensions so I am sure they thought this extension out before releasing it.
Randall McCallum
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Saturday, 26 July 2014 01:05
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Looks like an interesting extension Randall. A calendar planner for EasySocial in my opinion would go very far. What I envision is a calendar that makes it easy to plan meet ups or trips with friends and such by making it as easy as possible for someone to request a meet up on a specific date. Setting up repeat dates such as a work schedule would make it more obvious when that person is available. If we got really fancy the calendar planner could show a list of close friends (or people from a specific group) that specifically state they have certain days available. So for example you could literally flip through the calendar and see if your friends are wanting to meet up that day or sometime that week and easily fill in a date. This would then make it easier to work with people's schedules assuming either the info is filled out or they specify that they are open on those days.

It would be incredible if EasySocial can manage to make planning a real life social to be much easier than traditional methods. I would be in favor of the calendar app to use the same dates as events (so that both sets of records show on the same calendar) and throw on more sophisticated methods for planning. Engaging people to meet up in person is something facebook in some senses lacks. I've heard time and time again that people quit over the fact that they are not getting real life connections. If we can help bridge that gap, that would give EasySocial a huge cutting edge.
Josh Lewis
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Saturday, 26 July 2014 14:36
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Thanks for sharing Randall!

If I remember it right, before ES Events on v1.1 I think, we had this discussion with Mark as to how the Events should be. And I remember Mark said he would not like to add an Event app to ES that has basic event functions like what JomSocial have. Someone suggested features like that of EventBright is offering where Registration is an option. I just don't know if Mark and his team implemented that. I've been looking at the Events progress in the roadmap and it seems they are not done with it until now.

Question is, how would joomlathat team able to create an ES integration with ES Events unless the API were released to developers before the application were built. If the roadmap information is accurate, Events is not even finish.

I would still wait for ES Events and see what it has to offer, I personally want an Event app that is fully integrated with EasySocial. Hopefully, Mark and his team added features to ES Events that would make us clients to not even want to look at other Event Components.... hopeful!

Jackson
LAC Webadmin
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Sunday, 27 July 2014 05:32
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Again, thanks Randall After a quick read of the description of Calendar Planner and view of the front and back-end demo it appears to fall short of some of the voices entries made for EasySocial events and inherent "Apps extensible" support. Like everyone else I'm keeping an eye on the Blog for updates to see what ES may offer.
Kevin
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Wednesday, 30 July 2014 01:28
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I'm hoping that the event system has an ability to display a site wide calendar where both individuals (admins, etc.) or groups (i.e classes) can post events to one common calendar. It would also be great if it showed a registered user only the items that they are attending - i.e. filter out everything that they aren't a part of...
Ron Wells
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Friday, 08 August 2014 08:43
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