Re: [OT] embeddable web calendar recommendations

["Alan Middleton" <yahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have you looked at the google API instead of just embedding the
calendar?

http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/data/1.0/developers_guide_js.html
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+calendar+ajax

Not used in anger (yet) but should give you much more control over the
presentation.


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Sent: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:51:02 +0100
From: Paul Gordon <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] embeddable web calendar recommendations

> Peeps, sorry this is waaaaaay OT, but I know there are a few fairly
> competent webby types here who might be able to help.
>
>
>
> In my capacity of attempting to knock up a website for our local
residents
> association, I've been looking into various ways to get a nice looking
and
> functional calendar on the site.
>
>
>
> I've examined several calendar services that I can embed with no
problems, -
> the issue really is more of the actual behaviour of the calendar
services
> themselves.
>
>
>
> For instance, Google calendar works *almost* perfectly, except for the
fact
> that if a calendar event has a "where" configured (i.e.
anything at all is
> entered into the where field in the event properties), it absolutely
insists
> on putting a Google map link on the event too. - there is no way to
prevent
> this behaviour, and because the entirety of the text entered in the
where
> field is used as the search term for locating the map, it invariably
results
> in a map link that is utterly wrong.
>
>
>
> Next up, Windows Live has a calendar as well. similar problem, most of
it is
> near perfect, *but* the event properties always get an additional
"more
> details" hyperlink tacked onto the bottom, which when clicked,
opens the
> windows live calendar on the Windows Live site, - thus taking users
*away*
> from our site, which is not what I want at all - why then bother to
embed
> the bl00dy thing in our own site in the first place!?!?
>
>
>
> I've checked out several other lesser known ones that I've come across
from
> Google searches, and thus far, all the ones I've found have some
little
> foible or other that renders it effectively useless for our purposes.
>
>
>
> These are all free services of course, (UKHA price!) - this is
obviously
> preferred, but we could stretch to a very modest paid-for service, but
it is
> just a local not-for-profit organisation, so funds are somewhat
limited.
>
>
>
> So, what I'm looking for is a recommendation for a calendar that:
>
> can be embedded in one of our site's pages,
>
> which looks fairly nice (much like Google or Windows Live calendars),
>
> which users can see published events as clickable links on the
calendar;-
>
> which, when clicked, pops up a details pane, in which *I* can control
what
> links it contains
>
>
>
> Anyone got any suggestions?
>
>
>
> The site is based on Office Live, but I've had no problem thus far
embedding
> via HTML iFrame code snippets.
>
>
>
>
>
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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