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Re: Brick Journal Calendar
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Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:29:37 GMT
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In lugnet.publish.brickjournal, C. L. GunningCook wrote:
> Joe and Crew,
> 
> Not sure who is personally responsible for the Brick Journal Calendar
> http://brickjournal-space.near-time.net/calendar/view_month?date=2008-06-01
> so I will post here, and hopefully it will get into the right hands.

I manage the calendar:-).


> And before I get into this, let me first start of with a thank you for having a
> central "Calendar of Events". It is a wonderful idea, useful for fans, and more
> than likely a "chore" for someone to keep this updated.


It's all three:-)

> I realize that "beggars should not be choosers"... but I am hoping you will
> consider this idea, since all this work goes into this resource, I would like to
> see it be a bit more user friendly.
> 
> Currently many days are filled with long running events or museum displays, and
> that makes finding Fest dates or other AFOL centric events difficult.  Would it
> be possible to colour code the listings, by type of event (for example, Fests in
> red, museum shows in blue), or by geographical area, (by country perhaps)?

I had pushed for that functionality for me last year, and found out that the
calendar app wasn't that advanced at all..which really wasn't the answer I
wanted.

I really wanted country icons, but there was no provision for them.

Since you asked me this, though, I went back to the calendar and did some
hacking and found that I can change colors on the headline, so I can work this
out, at least.
> 
> If the font colours could be changed so it would be easier to read and sort
> through it of course, would be way faster to skim thru the calendar and find
> the particular events someone is interested in.


Okay, so what color scheme do you want - by type of event or country? Either
way, it will take a little time.


Joe
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> Janey "Red Brick"



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(...) If I may venture a suggestion: Make the colour scheme about the type of event and shorten the "location" field to the two-letter country code (ie: us, ca, uk, etc). The full address can be in the description field but it would not only make it (...) (19 years ago, 13-Mar-08, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)

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