By Andy on Monday, 20 October 2014
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Aiming to improve the user experience here:

Right now the Events filters by date include Upcoming 1 Week, Upcoming 2 Weeks, This Month and This Year.

This Month and This Year both result in funky awesome navigation bar to allow the user to move back or forward by month or year.

This functionality is great. That's how users typically want to see / print / share what's coming up.

To me it should be applied on the Week view as well for consistency and because many people would like to see things a week at a time.

Preserving the consistency aspect, this might mean it's best to remove the 'Upcoming 2 weeks' view.... that, unless anyone thinks otherwise, is a less common 'time period' for scanning events.

So all of the above would be one less link, and added consistency with the navigation style (bringing the 'week' view in line with 'month' and 'year').

If this meets universal / dev team approval, this navigation bar could be extended to the 'Day' view as well... again consistency with (week), month and year.. and could then allow the removal of the 'Tomorrow' link (but some people might be loving that.. so my main user experience issue here is with the week view)
Hi Andy,

I actually did wanted to extend this to "Week" but I didn't have enough time so for now I am putting a hold on this for now, and revisit this in the future.

For your information, the "Day" does already have the same Left/Right navigation as with Month and Year. The day navigation is smart enough to detect Tomorrow and highlights tomorrow accordingly if you navigate (be it left/right).
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Monday, 20 October 2014 16:58
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Screenshot to showcase the day navigation.
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Monday, 20 October 2014 17:10
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Hi Jason - That's great news re: extending the concept to weeks.

..and yes, sorry I missed it on the Day view.. I see it's there!

Mine isn't working though... It won't go beyond the current day and the back arrow takes it back 2 days at a time, not one. I think this is a known issue (link provided in site details in case you need to see it though).
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Monday, 20 October 2014 18:21
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@Andy,

Yup and I've fixed it internally. Will be released in the next version.
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Monday, 20 October 2014 18:29
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Nice. Thanks for building us what is / soon will be the leading Joomla events component.... all within EasySocial
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Monday, 20 October 2014 18:34
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Thanks for the kind words Andy!
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Monday, 20 October 2014 18:35
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