Calendar

The calendar, or user-calendar, is a feature where fotocommunity-users can set appointments for user-meetings, workshops and general informations regarding events taking place with connection to photography.

General

This feature works pretty well on fotocommunity.de and is new at fotocommunity.com.

We found some difficulties ourselves and you'll probaly find some more, because we can't test everything. If you find problems, please mail them to dhofmann@fotocommunity.com or send a fotomail (http://www.fotocommunity.com/info/Fotomails) to Dirk Hofmann (http://www.fotocommunity.com/pc/account/myprofile/12143).

Known issues:

• zipcodes are limited to 5 digits (numbers only)
• translation error in ready entries overview

How do i create a new entry for the user calendar?

Remember: Creating dates in the calendar is only available for power members (http://www.fotocommunity.com/info/Credits#Userlevels)!

If you are a power member and want to create a calendar entry, do as shown here:

Go to the calendar by clicking the link in the channel bar:

Navigate to the date you want to select with the arrows (if necessary) or by clicking the date in the calendar (if you want to make an entry for the actual month).

The orange "e" (edit) allows you to change or edit your describtion. As you can see comments are possible so users can communicate to the event here. Of course only team-members and the initiator can edit the entries. The edit function is not available for other users.

In our example we want to enter an event for a new photo project, which will happen at July, 9th 2006.

The standard view for the calendar is the actual month. If you want to select another month, please use the arrows to navigate the calendar.

Now click the date you want to enter your event in.

The actual date is filled white, the date you selected orange and you see the link "enter a date" at the bottom of the navigation box. Go ahead and click it.

The input window for your canlendar entry opens and input your information now:

Here are some explanations for the entries:

Date: is selected automaticly based on your selection from the previous screen.

Kind of entry: here you select the kind of your entry. your choices are:

• user meeting - occurs once
• regular user meeting - occurs on a regular basis
• workshop: speaks for itself
• fc-exhibition: an exhibition of fc members works
• event tips: a way to announce events connected to photography

Time: local time of the area the event takes place in.

Number of days: please enter a number only if the event takes place on more than one day!

Contact: your user id will automaticly be filled in. please add another one or two users id's as well to have more than one contact for questions.

Links:

• photo id: please enter a photo id for the preview photo
• news id: not used at the moment

Meeting point: speaks for itself

Street / No: speaks for itself

Zipcode and City: enter a zipcode (only numbers) and a city. if your zipcode contains letters as well or has more or less than 5 charakters, please enter a fake number (for example 12345). For other countries than Germany the zipcode is not used at the moment.

Country: speaks for itself

Here are the inputs we used for our example:

After you confirm your entries, your proposal will be crosschecked by the administration and go online after it was approved.

After the entry was approved it will automaticly appear in the overview for the month you selected in the calendar navigation.

As you see the entry's color is blue (event). You can also check how many people stated interest or confirmed their participation.

Click the date link to see the details for the event.

For team-members and the initiator of an entry there is the chance to edit the entries by clicking the "e" button.

Other users don't see this button and cannot do any changes. There is a "post a comment" link under the event overview, so that users can change opinions right here.

We will have the German parts translated soon.

How do i check for events?

To get to the calendar, just click the link above the channel bar:

You'll enter the user calendar at the actual month and see the entries marked with colors in the navigation bar and listed by date besides the navigation bar.

To learn more about a special event, click on the date link in the event overview.

How do i sign / off in for an event?

Click "confirmed" in the event overview:

After you did so, your name will automaticly be entered in the participation list.

To cancel your interest, please click the referring link in the same line.

If you don't know if you can participate, but still have interest to do so, click the referring link. (deactivation with "cancel interest")

After you entered your interest/signed in for the event, it will be linked in your myPics-screen as shown here:

You can access the events overview by clicking the link!