[nodebb-plugin-calendar] Fully featured calendar plugin for NodeBB - Testers needed

PitaJ

Added Italian translations

Installation instructions:

Open a command window in the NodeBB directory
Navigate to the node_modules directory (cd node_modules) and run npm remove nodebb-plugin-calendar
Delete the nodebb-plugin-calendar directory with del nodebb-plugin-calendar or rm -r nodebb-plugin-calendar
Clone the master branch of the git repository git clone https://github.com/pitaj/nodebb-plugin-calendar
Navigate to the nodebb-plugin-calendar directory with cd nodebb-plugin-calendar
Install npm dependencies with the command npm install

Those commands should install it correctly. It should then be visible in the ACP (maybe after a restart) to be activated.

My console log in Windows:

D:\NodeBB\node_modules>npm remove nodebb-plugin-calendar
unbuild [email protected]

D:\NodeBB\node_modules>del nodebb-plugin-calendar
Could Not Find D:\NodeBB\node_modules\nodebb-plugin-calendar

D:\NodeBB\node_modules>git clone -b 0.2.x https://github.com/pitaj/nodebb-plugin-calendar
Cloning into 'nodebb-plugin-calendar'...
remote: Counting objects: 615, done.
remote: Total 615 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 615
Receiving objects: 100% (615/615), 490.11 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (212/212), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

D:\NodeBB\node_modules>cd nodebb-plugin-calendar

D:\NodeBB\node_modules\nodebb-plugin-calendar>npm install

Follow those instructions and you should be good.

PitaJ

@Master-Antonio @Codejet @markkus

How is the plugin so far? Have you encountered any bugs?

BTW, @markkus, there are translatable strings. Look here

I've also moved the 0.2.x code into the master branch.

I'm probably going to release an npm package within the next week for anyone who doesn't want to use git.

markkus

@pitaj said:

How is the plugin so far? Have you encountered any bugs?

BTW, @markkus, there are translatable strings. Look here

I haven't tried it yet. I'll give it a shot once you've released the npm package.

And thanks for the heads up, I'll probably produce Estonian translation once I get my hands on it.

yariplus

Doesn't seem to work in NodeBB master. (Intentional maybe?)

The admin page works, but the calendar page appears, then quickly disappears. Didn't see any errors on the server or client console.

PitaJ

@yariplus Requesting some information about the bug, because I haven't had that problem:

What browser?
What commit of NodeBB?

yariplus

@pitaj

NodeBB: 9ca7243124a3de29b16de0dd280b56ea14bf6c14
FireFox: 37.0.2
Chrome: 42.0.2311.135 m

Nothing is on the server log.

This is the whole client log:

"Successfully loaded initial data" cal.js:827:8
"Calendar templates loaded" cal.js:850:8
"Calendar translation loaded" cal.js:852:10
"Initializing Calendar" cal.js:192:10
"Initializing Events" cal.js:200:10

I just checked the DOM and the content row is display:none

<div id="content" class="container">
    <div class="row">...</div>   <~ This has display:none
</div>

I changed it to block and the calendar is partially there but doesn't work. I'm guessing it didn't finish loading.

Theme was latest lavender, same thing with latest persona.

PitaJ

@yariplus

Okay, so it appears that you're using a language besides it, en_US, or en_GB. That's why the translation strings are all showing up.
The row had display:none because of a badly-targeted css rule to hide the bottom widgets. I don't know why that NaN is showing up, that's weird.

I think I fixed these issues in the latest commit. Try and see if a git pull fixes the problems.

EDIT: Actually, now it should work.

yariplus

@pitaj Okay, removed and reinstalled your latest from git.

It loads now and translates, but the day is still NaN and events don't appear on the calendar.

I am getting an error now:

TypeError: calendar.days[y] is undefined cal.js:339:12

Also, events do appear on the forum in the correct category, but they're not parsed correctly.

PitaJ

@yariplus

Alright, is this hosted publicly somewhere? I need to figure out what is actually going on. I know about the parsing thing with the posts.

I can't figure out why you're getting NaN. The only thing I can think of is that the appropriate data isn't being sent to the template.

yariplus

@pitaj It's just my personal site. yaricraft.com

I can make you a ftp/ssh account if you want.

AHH, I figured it out. It has something to do with widgets. I removed all my widgets and suddenly everything works now.

Any widget I use, even just plain text, breaks it. Widgets must mess up the template somehow.

yariplus

Okay, only side widgets cause the error.

Here's the finished dom with header/footer widgets: (the cal works and the widgets disappear.)

<div id="content" class="container-fluid">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-xs-12" widget-area="header"></div>
    </div>
    <noscript></noscript>
    <div class="nodebb-plugin-calendar"></div>
</div>

and with side widgets: (The widgets appear and the cal doesn't work.)

<div id="content" class="container-fluid">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-lg-9 col-xs-12">
            <noscript></noscript>
            <div class="nodebb-plugin-calendar"></div>
        </div>
        <div class="col-lg-3 col-xs-12" widget-area="sidebar"></div>
    </div>
</div>

PitaJ

@yariplus

Alright. I think it's fixed. Try it now.

yariplus

@pitaj Almost

It works on cold load, but not on ajaxing.

Looks like it's because the widget areas are not loaded yet at the time you do the detach/append:

      console.log('Widget Area Exists: ' + !!$('[widget-area="sidebar"]').length);
      var cal = $("#nodebb-plugin-calendar").detach();
      $("#content").empty().append(cal);

"Successfully loaded initial data" nodebb.min.js:979:8
"Widget Area Exists: false" nodebb.min.js:1009:0
"Calendar templates loaded" nodebb.min.js:1002:8

PitaJ

@yariplus that must be because the document ready event is allready done when ajaxify does stuff.

Hmmmm...

rhistina

Mine gets cut off for some reason.
Also, is it supposed to auto post to Announcements?

upload-a95e4e2b-edd5-4f5b-b715-97a149c6062a

PitaJ

@rhistina you're supposed to configure the correct category in the settings page in the ACP

rhistina

@pitaj Thanks! Also do you have any screenshots of what it should look like when it auto posts to the category you want? Mine looks like below. Also note that I'm a total noob to NodeBB and I have no idea what I'm doing :D! So I apologize in advanced for asking questions that may seem otherwise obvious.

upload-faa5aff7-43cd-4c14-b2f3-4e37db317bfa

PitaJ

@rhistina yeah, right now it just looks like that. I'm working on getting that to work.

Do you have this on a publicly available server?

Also, about that cut off thing. Can you tell me what theme you're using and the output of typing the following command in the JavaScript console:

$("#content").children()

Thanks

chas

Can you explain how the privledges work, it seems a bit confusing to me, can anyone create an event or only the group you assign in the admin panel? I can't create an event even though i've assigned the moderator group access.. I just get "no privledge" error in nodebb dev

Maybe i have done something wrong... looks good though

PitaJ

@chas the global privileges are set up in the plugin settings page in the ACP. I tried to make that setup the category permissions automatically, but it may not work perfectly. Check the permissions for the category, and make sure the use has permissions to post in it.