http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ InstantCal Forums » Recent Posts en-US Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:01:57 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/search.php http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=18#post-46 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:38:31 +0000 admin 46@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>Thank you for the report. There was an error in the DNS for the redirect. It should now be fixed, but may take up to 1 hour for the DNS to refresh. </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=18#post-45 Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:53:52 +0000 sean-o 45@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>Hi guys. Thanks for an awesome service. Just wanted to check I wasn't missing something - probably will be fixed soon. The calendar stopped working, with <a href="http://cdn.instantcal.com/cvir.html" rel="nofollow">http://cdn.instantcal.com/cvir.html</a> redirecting to <a href="http://api.instantcal.com/cvj.html" rel="nofollow">http://api.instantcal.com/cvj.html</a> which apparently doesn't exist. I've setup the code snippet again, but no dice. Am I missing something?</p> <p>Cheers,<br /> sean. </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=17#post-44 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:05:49 +0000 admin 44@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>Yes. The location hyperlink may be removed from the listing display by adding 'gbuttons=location' to the HTML embed code (the 'Map' link may also be removed by using 'gbuttons=location-map' instead). In the event window, 'ibuttons=location-map' may be used (the 'g' is for event-Group and the 'i' is for event-Item). </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=17#post-43 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:14:03 +0000 Mklauza 43@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>Is there a way to remove the location hyperlink? On our site, I would like to use the simple location of "nature center" rather than a street address and Yahoo maps finds lots of nature centers. I can use the gps coordinates which of course would link to the right location, but its not as reader friendly.</p> <p>URL: <a href="http://www.friendsofoakwoods.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.friendsofoakwoods.com</a><br /> Calendar: Google<br /> Host: Blogger </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=13#post-42 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:27:04 +0000 admin 42@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>When using a custom theme, a background color can now be set by adding to the HTML embed code 'bcolor=rrggbb' where 'rrggbb' is a 6-digit hexadecimal color value (e.g. ffffc0).</p> <p>The API documentation will be updated shortly. </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=13#post-41 Thu, 27 May 2010 16:44:09 +0000 jpickerell 41@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>Thanks for the response. It would be fantastic if you would add the ability of setting the separate background colors in a future update! </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=16#post-40 Thu, 27 May 2010 09:58:17 +0000 admin 40@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>This behaviour seemed to occur only with some browsers, but is now fixed.</p> <p>Thank you for reporting it. </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=16#post-39 Wed, 26 May 2010 15:21:36 +0000 jpickerell 39@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>Thanks for catching my typos. I will get those corrected.</p> <p>Thanks for the reply. I guess what I am seeing is that the calendar scrolls back up to the top of the month when you click on an event and then close the event by clicking the X in the top right-hand corner of the calendar. If you just move your mouse cursor away from the event/calendar, it stays where you were when you clicked on the event. This is not the case when you close the event by using the X. </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=13#post-38 Wed, 26 May 2010 10:51:50 +0000 admin 38@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>Currently, 'theme' controls the background color of the calendar; both the 'headers' (e.g. title bar, date navigation bar) and 'body' (where events are placed) are determined by 'theme'. If 'theme' is a 'flat' color (e.g. RE) or custom (e.g. ff0000, which is 'red'), the 'body' is always set to white. If 'theme' is a 'blend' (e.g. XRE), the 'body' is set to an image.</p> <p>We will check into separating the 'header' and 'body' backgrounds for a future feature.</p> <p>BTW: there is a spurious '&gt;' in your HTML embed code after 'dims=1'.</p> <p>Also, 'cvj.html' should be 'cvir.html'. </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=16#post-37 Wed, 26 May 2010 10:46:21 +0000 admin 37@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>The scrollbar should already be positioned as close to the current day as possible; as the scrollbar is already at the bottom of the scrollable area, no further scrolling is possible.</p> <p>If the scrollbar does not appear at the bottom, what browser is being used?</p> <p>Also, there is a typo in the InstantCal HTML embed code; there is a 'less than' sign after dims=1. This should be '&amp;gtype=...'.</p> <p>Also 'cvj.html' should be 'cvir.html'. </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=13#post-36 Wed, 26 May 2010 09:14:41 +0000 jpickerell 36@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>I should state that I beleive I am asking for the same thing as Alex. When I go to a month that does not have any events, the background is white. I attempted to set the background color by adding 'allowTransparency=true' and setting the IFrame style property 'background-color' but could not get it to work.</p> <p>Any pointers? </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=16#post-35 Tue, 25 May 2010 16:06:17 +0000 jpickerell 35@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>I am using the list view. Is there a way to have the calendar start with whatever today's date is instead of the first of the month? It would be great if users didn't have to scroll down to todays date. This is especially true when it is the end of the month and you have to scroll down quite a bit to get to the current date.</p> <p>Example: <a href="http://www.troyusd.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.troyusd.org</a> - I have a list view embedded in the right column. </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=13#post-34 Tue, 25 May 2010 15:57:33 +0000 jpickerell 34@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>I am wanting to change the color of the background behind the date. It is currently white. Here is my embed code.</p> <p>&lt;iframe id='cv_if5' src='http://cdn.instantcal.com/cvj.html?id=cv_nav5&amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fcalendar%2Fical%2Fcalendar%40troyusd.org%2Fpublic%2Fbasic.ics&amp;theme=073EF5&amp;ccolor=073EF5&amp;ccategory_color=073EF5&amp;dims=1&gt;ype=cv_listsummary&amp;gcloseable=0&amp;gnavigable=1&amp;gperiod=month&amp;geborder=0&amp;gvsep=%3Cbr%3E%3Cbr%3E&amp;itype=cv_simpleevent&amp;cname=District%20Calendar' scrolling='no' frameborder=0 height=450 width=160&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</p> <p>Can be viewed at <a href="http://www.troyusd.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.troyusd.org</a> - Home page - Right column </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=15#post-33 Sun, 23 May 2010 11:17:27 +0000 admin 33@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>InstantCal normally displays non-floating time events in the timezone<br /> of the computer used to view the calendar.</p> <p>InstantCal displays floating time events, of course, at the same time<br /> in any timezone.</p> <p>It is likely that your calendar contains only non-floating time events.</p> <p>Since InstantCal obeys the iCal event format, it is not possible to<br /> configure InstantCal to directly display non-floating time events as floating<br /> time events; this can only be done by changing the calendar itself<br /> to specify events as floating. Ask your calendar service vendor for<br /> further information about this.</p> <p>It is, however, possible to configure InstantCal to display non-floating<br /> time events in different ways using the 'timezone_def' setting in the<br /> IFrame 'src' value as follows:<br /> - timezone_def=Area/Location (e.g. timezone_def=Asia/Calcutta): display<br /> event in the specified timezone<br /> - timezone_def=0: display event in the timezone specified by the calendar<br /> (this is similar to floating time as the time always appears the same<br /> to all viewers; however, it is the time in the original calendar timezone)</p> <p>For more information, see:<br /> <a href="http://www.instantcal.com/api.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.instantcal.com/api.html</a><br /> <a href="http://www.instantcal.com/timezone.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.instantcal.com/timezone.html</a> </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=15#post-32 Sat, 22 May 2010 06:47:24 +0000 Jinesh 32@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>We tried using instantcal for our website. We are using goggle calendar’s ical url to be shown on the website. In that google calendar’s setting we have specified timezone as India. Then too we don’t get the correct data..the event which is scheduled on 10:30 pm 22nd may 2010 gets displayed on 22nd and also on 23rd in instantcal.</p> <p>We also read about floating time. How can we use it in the iframe code? </p> <p>Please guide us are we doing something wrong. </p> <p>Waiting for reply.</p> <p>Regards,<br /> Jinesh </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=14#post-31 Wed, 19 May 2010 13:58:41 +0000 admin 31@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>The iCal file used with InstantCal needs to contain events that have a CATEGORIES property in order to use InstantCal with categories. The name(s) of the CATEGORIES<br /> can then be used with the 'ccategory' option (and 'ccategory_type=checkbox') to display categories checkboxes below the calendar.</p> <p>Categories may be assigned to Outlook events using the 'Categories' button that Outlook displays when editing the details of an event. Custom categories may also be added to the Outlook defaults.</p> <p>After creating an event and assigning a category in Outlook, save the calendar as an iCal file. The file should contain lines such as:<br /> CATEGORIES:mycat<br /> where 'mycat' is the name of the category that was assigned to the event in Outlook.</p> <p>Then, use 'ccategory=mycat' to tell InstantCal (in the HTML embed code) that one of the categories which can be selected is 'mycat'. Repeat this for as many categories as desired. </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=14#post-30 Wed, 19 May 2010 10:15:27 +0000 khuyser 30@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>I'm not having much luck displaying categories, much less filtering by them. It doesn't appear the API recognizes Outlook categories, assuming they are even saved in the ics file. Where does the category name come from and how do I create my source calendars to use categories in InstantCal? </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=13#post-29 Mon, 10 May 2010 09:32:23 +0000 admin 29@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>There are several color options available for InstantCal.</p> <p>The background color of the IFrame containing InstantCal may be set by adding 'allowTransparency=true' and setting the IFrame style property 'background-color'.</p> <p>The color scheme of an InstantCal View may be set by changing the 'theme' option as described in the API at:<br /> <a href="http://www.instantcal.com/api.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.instantcal.com/api.html</a></p> <p>Background colors for calendar events may be set using the 'ccolor' option, also<br /> described in the API at:<br /> <a href="http://www.instantcal.com/api.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.instantcal.com/api.html</a></p> <p>If there is another portion of the calendar View that you wish to color, post the InstantCal HTML embed code and describe the area, as each View may differ slightly. </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=13#post-28 Sun, 09 May 2010 12:48:48 +0000 apashton 28@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>hi,</p> <p>At the top and bottom of the calender there is white space that i would like to colour. Is there an API for this or a why around changing this colour?</p> <p>Thanks for any help</p> <p>Alex </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=12#post-27 Mon, 03 May 2010 23:16:03 +0000 draguls 27@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>Looks much better.<br /> Thanks for the fix. </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=12#post-26 Mon, 03 May 2010 15:04:01 +0000 admin 26@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>Yes, it was a bug and should now be fixed. That is a rather narrow widget, but the height should also now be adjusted to show the bottom portion of the widget when the navigation date wraps to two lines. </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=12#post-25 Mon, 03 May 2010 10:53:11 +0000 draguls 25@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>I use the "Preview" display style i a rather slim calendar (width=155).<br /> I get the calendar file from <a href="http://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat/</a> which show a list of tv shows.<br /> I was wondering if I can hide the time stamps in the list, as it crams the text of the tv show title.</p> <p>Edit: found the "gehtime=0" function, but the text is still crammed up and there is just empty space where the time was. Is it possible to stretch the text field so it also uses the space where the time was? </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=11#post-24 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:24:32 +0000 admin 24@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>Yesterday, a software release was done in preparation for moving InstantCal to a content distribution network (CDN), which will improve performance. Try re-starting your web browser. If that does not help, email us the HTML embed code at info at instantcal.com and we will check further.</p> <p>Note that if you now run the Demo with your calendar URL, you will get a new HTML code that uses the CDN; this should improve performance. </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=11#post-23 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:15:21 +0000 TacomaMike 23@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>My Calendar has been working great for months now but has quit functioning in the last 2 days. Has anything changed that I need to update? </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=10#post-22 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:12:47 +0000 admin 22@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>InstantCal works with nearly any iCal file (sometimes also called a 'feed'). If your calendar service makes an iCal URL available, it may be used with InstantCal.</p> <p>iCal is a standard calendar format, much as HTML is a standard web content format. iCal files frequently, although not always, use .ics as a suffix. The internet URL of the iCal representation of your calendar should be pasted into the InstantCal Demo to verify that it is valid; if an error is displayed, normally it means that either the URL is not accessible or the file in not in iCal format. Here is an example of iCal format: <a href="http://www.instantcal.com/test.ics" rel="nofollow">http://www.instantcal.com/test.ics</a> </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=10#post-21 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:51:49 +0000 STAR57 21@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>First what a great feature! Was wondering how to make my <a href="http://www.eventpublish.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.eventpublish.com/</a> into an Ical. Presentaly Instantcal is not showing any data in the demo code I post to my site. Any help would be Great ...</p> <p>Thanks </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=9#post-20 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:00:40 +0000 admin 20@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>To display calendar event time in 24 hour format, append '&amp;time24=1' to the InstantCal HTML embed code (the '&amp;' is needed to separate setup options).</p> <p>It is not yet possible to modify the date format, or to change the language. </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=9#post-19 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:24:38 +0000 equites 19@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>Very useful tool - I love it.</p> <p>But I would like to adopt it for better use in Germany.</p> <p>Is it possible to display the time in 24 hour format?<br /> Is it possible to display the Date in DD.MM.YYYY format instead of M/D/YYYY?<br /> Is it possible to select a language to display labels, days, months etc. in German?</p> <p>Monday = Montag<br /> Thuesday = Dienstag etc.</p> <p>Thank you in advance<br /> Harry </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=8#post-18 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:00:31 +0000 admin 18@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>The font colors can not currently be changed.</p> <p>The height of days in a month grid may be changed using one of these options:<br /> - 'gwrap=1': displays each event summary completely for all events<br /> - 'gpercellm=N': sets the maximum number of events in a day (0 means unlimited) </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=8#post-17 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:15:26 +0000 TacomaMike 17@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>Ok that worked great. Just a couple more questions and I'll have this finished :)</p> <p>1. Any way to change the font color of the Month and Year like we did with the name?</p> <p>2. I have 4 entries on one day in the month. Only three will show up without clicking 'more' Is there any way to make the cells bigger so I can fit that last item in there and have it show up without any more clicking? I tried increasing the height of the calendar to stretch it out but at 600px it won't seem to get any taller no matter what I set the value to. Thanks a lot. </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=8#post-16 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:39:11 +0000 admin 16@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>Yes. There is now a 'cnamec' parameter which sets the (font) color for the displayed<br /> calendar name.</p> <p>For example '&amp;cnamec=blue' or '&amp;cnamec=#0000ff' would set the text color to 'blue'. </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=8#post-15 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:16:59 +0000 TacomaMike 15@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>Is there any way to change the text color of the calendar name? I'm using a custom color instead of the themes and it makes my name(cname) black which is kind of hard to see with my background color.<br /> Thanks!<br /> Mike </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=7#post-14 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:21:51 +0000 dssprogrammer 14@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>Kudos for Carl working with me via email. He put great effort in to helping me out. </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=7#post-13 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:54:26 +0000 dssprogrammer 13@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>I tried what you sugested, no joy. I even tried loading from Chrome (which has never loaded my site, same :(<br /> If you send me an email or PM me somehow, I'll send you my url and the code I inserted. As I would prefer not to post them publicly.</p> <p>Thank you </p> http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=7#post-12 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:26:03 +0000 admin 12@http://www.instantcal.com/bbpress/ <p>You may need to refresh the page, empty the cache, or restart the web browser.</p> <p>We are working on making InstantCal more 'real-time', but calendars<br /> are currently not always updated as quickly as we might like. </p>