Can Users log on to see ONLY their own calendar?

russmarsh · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 10

Hi Ian,
I emailed you today and a couple of weeks ago, I know you're very busy so I thought maybe you'd prefer me to post in the forum then other folks may get the benefit of your replies as well.. Cool

I installed Thyme and it went very smoothly. I can now create calendars, style them, and add events no problem. (all in one day... Very Happy

, pretty good for a NON programmer..) I even scoured the forum and found a snippet of code you mentioned two years ago to add a mini year view and used it in a calendar.. GREAT! see it here: http://www.murciadirect.co.uk/availability/calendars/alex.php

How can I make the mini year one display the same width as the month one? (80%) I tried to wrap a table around the two php statements inside the body tag but that didn't work.. (I did say I'm not a programmer)
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My website is going to be a property rentals web site and all I am displaying in the calendars are my users bookings. I want my users to be able to log into Thyme (when I have created their calendar) and insert their own bookings so that general web site visitors can quickly check availability. (I intend to do some instruction videos showing them how to easily do this..)

I have a slight problem with the process of users logging in.. They get to see the default calendar and a drop down list of all the other calendars they are entitled to see (I have to make all calendars public so general visitors can see them on the front end yes?)

I may well end up with about 1000+ calendar owners on this website all with their own calendar. This is going to make this drop down list impossible...

Can I set something so that when a calendar owner logs in they only see their OWN calendar to edit?

To clarify more: all users will be individual calendar owners and each calendar will have to have the public group enabled? (I will be the only admin or super user)

I've been wrestling with this all day after a brilliant start and am starting to despair or it could be just tiredness.. Shocked

Thanks for the help (AND THE GREAT PRODUCT) - Russ
p.s. I do have some joomla issues but I'll try to work this out without getting into that first.... maybe another post one day soon.. Wink

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5268

Hi,

For the width thing wrapping it in a table should work just fine. Could you do that again so I can view the source and see what's going on with it please?

Yep. The calendars must be public in order for other people to see them on the front end. Hrmm.. not really. You can - In Admin -> Site Settings -> Misc uncheck Force Default Options for all users. This will allow people to set their own calendar as the default. After unchecking this they would be able to log in and click on Options at Thyme's footer to change their default calendar. You could include this in the video tutorial.

russmarsh · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 10

Thanks Ian, Your suggestion will work a treat I think. What might be best is to do everything for the Calendar Owners as I create their calendar. I can change their passwords in Joomla admin (which changes their Thyme password), set their Default Calendar for them then send them their new password to the site which they can then change back if they wish to.. I just tested it and it only takes a minute..

One thing though.. as I 'm setting their default calendar to their own it obviously works in the form of a drop down list to select the calendar from.. Will this still work ok if I have say... 600 calendars?... Or could you point me to the right file to change the default calendar for each owner directly in the file?

I sorted out the table thing by the way.. thanks..
http://www.murciadirect.co.uk/availability/calendars/alex.php
also added a header to everyones admin (What do you think?)
http://www.murciadirect.co.uk/availability/index.php

Brilliant! - Working on trial version at the minute.. (only two days now) As soon as I'm sure the drop down list thing above is ok I'll be upgrading straight away

cheers
Russ

russmarsh · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 10

Ian can you please answer the above question for me?

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5268

Hi,

I honestly don't know. This is more of a browser thing. Can a web browser handle a drop down list with over 600 entries? Let me see..

Internet explorer 7 and Firefox 2 appear to both handle 700 items in a select box just fine on my computer.

russmarsh · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 10

Thanks Ian,

Does the drop down list employ scroll bars when the list becomes too big for the window? That would indicate it would be fine...

Could this still give me a problem if say membership went to 2000? (gotta be optimistic Wink

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I wondered where the information is stored that tells the program which calendar to load for the logged in user? Is it in the database? the reason for this question is if it became awkward to do it via the drop down list whether the file itself could be manually altered.

(grasping at straws?)

cheers

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5268

A select box will have scroll bars if it contains too many items to fit in one window. I even went to 4000 and it was fine.

The user's default calendar setting is set in thyme_UserOptions in the default_cal field based on the id field. So..

thyme_UserOptions:
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id - points to user id # in thyme_Users table.
default_cal - points to calendar id # in thyme_Calendars table.

Let me know if you have any questions.

russmarsh · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 10

That's brilliant Ian.

Thanks for your help. You can expect an email from PayPal tomorrow,

I've done my 14 hours for today..

Thanks ever so much..

russmarsh · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 10

Had to go away for a few days..

back now and just bought the full version of Thyme.

Thanks Ian for a brilliant product!

Russ