RE: [OT] embeddable web calendar recommendations

[Paul Gordon <paul_gordon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

No I hadn't  - I really wanted to keep it nice & simple and not
have it suck
up too much of my time.

Although when researching I *did* come across the developer forums where
the
API is discussed at great length, and from what I read there, even that
does
not offer any control over that map link at all... - plenty of dev's were
complaining about exactly this same issue... :-(

Yet another example of some arrogant programmer deciding what's best for
us???

Paul G.


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Alan Middleton
Sent: 17 October 2010 02:37
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] embeddable web calendar recommendations

Have you looked at the google API instead of just embedding the calendar?

http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/data/1.0/developers_guide_js.html
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+calendar+ajax

Not used in anger (yet) but should give you much more control over the
presentation.


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Sent: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:51:02 +0100
From: Paul Gordon <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] embeddable web calendar recommendations

> Peeps, sorry this is waaaaaay OT, but I know there are a few fairly
> competent webby types here who might be able to help.
>
>
>
> In my capacity of attempting to knock up a website for our local
> residents association, I've been looking into various ways to get a
> nice looking and functional calendar on the site.
>
>
>
> I've examined several calendar services that I can embed with no
> problems, - the issue really is more of the actual behaviour of the
> calendar services themselves.
>
>
>
> For instance, Google calendar works *almost* perfectly, except for the
> fact that if a calendar event has a "where" configured (i.e.
anything
> at all is entered into the where field in the event properties), it
> absolutely insists on putting a Google map link on the event too. -
> there is no way to prevent this behaviour, and because the entirety of
> the text entered in the where field is used as the search term for
> locating the map, it invariably results in a map link that is utterly
wrong.
>
>
>
> Next up, Windows Live has a calendar as well. similar problem, most of
> it is near perfect, *but* the event properties always get an
> additional "more details" hyperlink tacked onto the bottom,
which when
> clicked, opens the windows live calendar on the Windows Live site, -
> thus taking users *away* from our site, which is not what I want at
> all - why then bother to embed the bl00dy thing in our own site in the
first place!?!?
>
>
>
> I've checked out several other lesser known ones that I've come across
> from Google searches, and thus far, all the ones I've found have some
> little foible or other that renders it effectively useless for our
purposes.
>
>
>
> These are all free services of course, (UKHA price!) - this is
> obviously preferred, but we could stretch to a very modest paid-for
> service, but it is just a local not-for-profit organisation, so funds
are
somewhat limited.
>
>
>
> So, what I'm looking for is a recommendation for a calendar that:
>
> can be embedded in one of our site's pages,
>
> which looks fairly nice (much like Google or Windows Live calendars),
>
> which users can see published events as clickable links on the
> calendar;-
>
> which, when clicked, pops up a details pane, in which *I* can control
> what links it contains
>
>
>
> Anyone got any suggestions?
>
>
>
> The site is based on Office Live, but I've had no problem thus far
> embedding via HTML iFrame code snippets.
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>
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>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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