Calendar events that don't post messages on the forum

Brad38 at 03h19

Nov

2009

What I really dislike about the events calendar on our forums is how you are forced to make it a post in one of your forums as well. You could attach the events calendar to a forum that isn't seen by most, but then that defeats the purpose. Most forums work so that you can post an event in the calendar that doesn't post a message on the forum and this is the way it should be, or at least the option should be there to skip posting a message in the forums.

For example, if you want to post events or holidays in the calendar such as Christmas, Halloween, Easter etc...you should be able to make an entry into the events calendar that doesn't post a message as well in your forum about it. It's redundant and silly to do this and especially if you post the event just a few days before the occasion. What's the point of having an event reminder if there has already been a post about it in the forum itself?

Hope everyone will agree and vote on this idea, it would also be nice to have recurring events handled this way as well. Smile

1 LH Justin, on 08/11/2009 at 04h50

Voted yes, all very good points.

2 kjcad, on 21/11/2009 at 05h38

I would like to see it be optional such as a checkbox on the submit event for:

Post this on the calendar only
Post this in the event forum only
Post this on both the calendar and the event forum

3 KMX, on 21/11/2009 at 16h13

I agree. I want to use the calender bad but I hate when it makes it a post aswell.

4 kjcad, on 21/11/2009 at 16h22

And we love it that it will post in a forum (please don't remove that, just make it optional) as well BUT have certain posts we do not want in the forum, like recurring events that recur several days in a row and require individual postings to show on each day in the calendar.

5 Walshy95, on 21/11/2009 at 16h31

Voted yes.

6 KMX, on 22/11/2009 at 08h29

kjcad wrote:And we love it that it will post in a forum (please don't remove that, just make it optional) as well BUT have certain posts we do not want in the forum, like recurring events that recur several days in a row and require individual postings to show on each day in the calendar.

Agreed

7 Brad38, on 04/02/2010 at 12h00

Thanks for the votes and replies everyone, bumping up again. Smile

Moderators, I just realized that I did have another topic with poll for this idea so you may delete the newer one here:

/suggestions-for-your-forums-f30/calendar-events-attached-to-the-calendar-itself-t63970.htm

8 Brad38, on 18/08/2010 at 19h15

Bumping up! Not nearly as important as the broken search features on our forums though.

9 The God, on 21/08/2010 at 07h29

Not a bad idea Laughing

I voted Yes Wink

10 that70sguy92, on 21/08/2010 at 09h37

Wonderful idea.
Yes.

11 bigugly11, on 27/08/2010 at 14h05

kjcad wrote:I would like to see it be optional such as a checkbox on the submit event for:

Post this on the calendar only
Post this in the event forum only
Post this on both the calendar and the event forum

12 pyroarcher, on 12/04/2011 at 23h14

yes, i want this changed, my forum members are complaining about no posts in the calendar but when a post is made it spams our recent topics widget which is extremely annoying!