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I'm interested in understanding more about the RSS features. The description mentions that "All Calendars also have the ability to provide rss feeds for all items on the calendar." But can you create custom categories for events, news, etc. and then display an RSS feed that contains only the events/news in a particular category?

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ajumbra123
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ScottC replied on at Permalink Reply
ScottC
The rss feeds are based on the calendar itself, so they are whatever you put on the calendar itself, be it a created item or an actual page that matches a filter. Optionally, since you can assign a page to any created item, you have freedom to put any page of any type on a calendar, with any item color etc.

You can make a calendar that only shows pages of a certain type, but still put some created items and recurring items there. They will both show up, but the way the calendar works is based on whatever is on the calendar is in the rss feed, there isn't a way to create calendar pages by a value of a certain custom attribute, but that is a very good idea and is simply a page-list, though creating the UI for it might take a little while.

One could also put all events of say golf outings under a certain site node and those will also show up on the calendar if you do (all pages under a certain page).

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ajumbra123 replied on at Permalink Reply
ajumbra123
Hmmm... Let me try to explain what we're hoping to do and let me know if it's possible. We'd like to have one page on the site with a calendar that contains all news/events/meetings, etc. When we add an event, we'd like to be able to place them in custom categories. To use your example, let's say we have 3 golfing events, but we also have 2 council meetings in March. We'd like to create a category for Golf Outings and one for Council Meetings. On the calendar page, all these events would show up. But, if we were go to a different section of the site - let's say a general page about Golf - we'd like to display just the golf events from the calendar, but in a listing or feed-style layout (i.e. date, time, title, link to the event or full calendar page), not in a calendar layout. This allows us to enter in all events in one location and then siphon them out by category to other site pages. Is that possible?
ajumbra123 replied on at Permalink Reply
ajumbra123
Hi Scott,
I'm sorry to bug you, but we didn't get a response on the website and the answer to this determines whether the client will buy the plugin or not... We really like all the other features yours offers, but we have to know if the following is possible:

This was our question:
"We'd like to have one page on the site with a calendar that contains all news/events/meetings, etc. When we add an event, we'd like to be able to place them in custom categories. To use your example, let's say we have 3 golfing events, but we also have 2 council meetings in March. We'd like to create a category for Golf Outings and one for Council Meetings. On the calendar page, all these events would show up. But, if we were go to a different section of the site - let's say a general page about Golf - we'd like to display just the golf events from the calendar, but in a listing or feed-style layout (i.e. date, time, title, link to the event or full calendar page), not in a calendar layout. This allows us to enter in all events in one location and then siphon them out by category to other site pages. Is that possible?"


Can you let me know as soon as possible?
Thanks!
Aimee


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ScottC replied on at Permalink Reply
ScottC
Hm, well the calendar items are associated with calendars, but events can exist on multiple calendars too.

So you could create an item, associate it with a page, then when you go to save you would have One "general calendar of events" where you add your golf outings and council meetings, and one that you just put your golf outings on.

Alternatively, you could create a page_list and give each of them a page type.

A calendar can be made to grab every page of a certain type, or it can take ALL pages underneath another page(so if your site has all golf outings below a certain page, then that would be a way to do it), or both in addition to mixed in created items. If they all are of the same page type, then that would go site-wide and find them for that calendar.

So the siphon isn't really a siphon, it'd be more to the tune of making sure you associate the event with a specific calendar that you again only use for a list view filter, be it by associating a created event with a calendar, that golf outing item being a certain page_type, or that golf outing being below the "golf outing" page.

That help?
ajumbra123 replied on at Permalink Reply
ajumbra123
Awesome! Thanks!!

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ScottC replied on at Permalink Reply
ScottC
you're welcome, sorry i didn't reply sooner, i get so much email :)

-Scott

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