| paul@6 | 1 | Introduction
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| paul@6 | 2 | ------------
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| paul@6 | 3 |
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| paul@6 | 4 | The EventAggregator macro for MoinMoin can be used to display event calendars
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| paul@6 | 5 | or listings which obtain their data from pages belonging to specific
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| paul@20 | 6 | categories (such as CategoryEvents). The start and end dates are read from the
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| paul@6 | 7 | page describing each event, and the calendar is automatically filled out with
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| paul@6 | 8 | the details of each event, colouring each event period in a specially
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| paul@6 | 9 | generated colour.
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| paul@6 | 10 |
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| paul@44 | 11 | The EventAggregatorSummary action can be used to provide iCalendar and RSS
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| paul@44 | 12 | summaries of event data based on pages belonging to specific categories, as
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| paul@44 | 13 | described above. The category, start and end parameters are read directly from
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| paul@44 | 14 | the request as URL or form parameters: these restrict the extent of each
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| paul@44 | 15 | generated summary.
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| paul@10 | 16 |
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| paul@47 | 17 | The EventAggregatorNewEvent action can be used to conveniently create new
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| paul@47 | 18 | event pages, displaying a simple form which can be filled out in order to
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| paul@47 | 19 | provide elementary event details such as the event title or summary, the
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| paul@47 | 20 | categories to which the page will be assigned, and the start and end dates of
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| paul@47 | 21 | the event.
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| paul@47 | 22 |
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| paul@6 | 23 | Installation
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| paul@6 | 24 | ------------
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| paul@6 | 25 |
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| paul@10 | 26 | To install the support library, consider using the setup.py script provided:
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| paul@10 | 27 |
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| paul@10 | 28 | python setup.py install
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| paul@10 | 29 |
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| paul@10 | 30 | You may wish to indicate a specific prefix if MoinMoin is not installed in the
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| paul@10 | 31 | traditional location:
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| paul@10 | 32 |
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| paul@10 | 33 | python setup.py install --prefix=path-to-moin-prefix
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| paul@10 | 34 |
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| paul@6 | 35 | To install the macro in a Wiki, consider using the instmacros script provided:
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| paul@6 | 36 |
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| paul@6 | 37 | ./instmacros path-to-wiki
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| paul@6 | 38 |
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| paul@6 | 39 | On non-UNIX platforms, it is necessary to manually copy the contents of the
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| paul@6 | 40 | macros directory in this distribution into the macros directory of your Wiki.
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| paul@6 | 41 |
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| paul@10 | 42 | It is highly recommended that the tables and listings be styled according to
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| paul@10 | 43 | the stylesheet provided, and you can use this file as a starting point for
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| paul@10 | 44 | your own modifications. To install the stylesheet, consider using the
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| paul@10 | 45 | insttheme script provided:
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| paul@10 | 46 |
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| paul@10 | 47 | ./insttheme path-to-wiki theme-name
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| paul@10 | 48 |
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| paul@10 | 49 | Again, on non-UNIX platforms, it is necessary to manually copy the files. In
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| paul@10 | 50 | this case, just copy the contents of the css directory into the css directory
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| paul@10 | 51 | of themes which will support styling of event calendars and listings.
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| paul@10 | 52 |
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| paul@10 | 53 | To activate the styles provided by the stylesheet in the css directory, you
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| paul@10 | 54 | will need to edit the screen.css file in each affected theme's css directory,
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| paul@10 | 55 | adding the following before any style rules:
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| paul@10 | 56 |
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| paul@10 | 57 | /* Event aggregation... */
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| paul@10 | 58 |
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| paul@10 | 59 | @import "event-aggregator.css";
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| paul@10 | 60 |
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| paul@10 | 61 | This ensures that the styles are made available to the browser.
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| paul@10 | 62 |
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| paul@47 | 63 | To install the actions in a Wiki, consider using the instactions script provided:
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| paul@10 | 64 |
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| paul@10 | 65 | ./instactions path-to-wiki
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| paul@10 | 66 |
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| paul@10 | 67 | On non-UNIX platforms, it is necessary to manually copy the contents of the
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| paul@10 | 68 | actions directory in this distribution into the actions directory of your Wiki.
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| paul@10 | 69 |
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| paul@27 | 70 | Useful Pages
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| paul@27 | 71 | ------------
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| paul@27 | 72 |
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| paul@27 | 73 | The pages directory contains a selection of useful pages using a syntax
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| paul@27 | 74 | appropriate for use with MoinMoin 1.6 or later. These pages can be created
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| paul@27 | 75 | through the Wiki and their contents copied in from each of the files.
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| paul@27 | 76 |
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| paul@10 | 77 | Using the Macro
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| paul@10 | 78 | ---------------
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| paul@10 | 79 |
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| paul@6 | 80 | It should now be possible to edit pages and use the macro as follows. For
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| paul@6 | 81 | MoinMoin 1.5:
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| paul@6 | 82 |
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| paul@20 | 83 | [[EventAggregator(CategoryEvents)]]
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| paul@6 | 84 |
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| paul@6 | 85 | For MoinMoin 1.6 and above:
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| paul@6 | 86 |
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| paul@20 | 87 | <<EventAggregator(CategoryEvents)>>
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| paul@6 | 88 |
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| paul@6 | 89 | As arguments to the macro, you must indicate a comma-separated list of
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| paul@6 | 90 | categories to be inspected for event data. For example:
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| paul@6 | 91 |
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| paul@20 | 92 | <<EventAggregator(CategoryEvents,CategoryTraining)>>
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| paul@6 | 93 |
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| paul@6 | 94 | By default, this should display a calendar in a collection of tables, one for
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| paul@6 | 95 | each month containing events. To show a collection of month-by-month listings,
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| paul@6 | 96 | use the 'mode' argument as follows:
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| paul@6 | 97 |
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| paul@20 | 98 | <<EventAggregator(CategoryEvents,mode=list)>>
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| paul@20 | 99 |
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| paul@20 | 100 | See pages/HelpOnEventAggregator for more detailed information.
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| paul@6 | 101 |
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| paul@47 | 102 | Using the Actions
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| paul@47 | 103 | -----------------
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| paul@6 | 104 |
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| paul@20 | 105 | To obtain an iCalendar summary, the EventAggregatorSummary action can be
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| paul@20 | 106 | selected from the actions menu on any page. Alternatively, a collection of
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| paul@24 | 107 | parameters can be specified in the URL of any Wiki page.
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| paul@6 | 108 |
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| paul@24 | 109 | See pages/HelpOnEventAggregatorSummary for more detailed information.
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| paul@6 | 110 |
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| paul@47 | 111 | To create new events using the EventAggregatorNewEvent action, the appropriate
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| paul@47 | 112 | menu entry can be selected in the actions menu. Alternatively, clicking on a
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| paul@47 | 113 | day number in a calendar view will invoke the action and pre-fill the form
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| paul@47 | 114 | with the start date set to the selected day from the calendar.
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| paul@47 | 115 |
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| paul@47 | 116 | See pages/HelpOnEventAggregatorNewEvent for more detailed information.
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| paul@47 | 117 |
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| paul@6 | 118 | Recommended Software
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| paul@6 | 119 | --------------------
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| paul@6 | 120 |
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| paul@6 | 121 | The Xapian search software is highly recommended, if not technically
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| paul@6 | 122 | essential, for the acceptable performance of the EventAggregator macro since
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| paul@6 | 123 | the macro makes use of search routines in MoinMoin that can dominate the time
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| paul@6 | 124 | spent processing requests.
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| paul@6 | 125 |
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| paul@6 | 126 | See the following page for information on Xapian and MoinMoin:
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| paul@6 | 127 |
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| paul@6 | 128 | http://moinmo.in/HelpOnXapian
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| paul@6 | 129 |
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| paul@6 | 130 | Troubleshooting
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| paul@6 | 131 | ---------------
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| paul@6 | 132 |
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| paul@6 | 133 | See here for a bug related to category recognition:
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| paul@6 | 134 |
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| paul@6 | 135 | http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinBugs/1.7TemplatesNotAppearing
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| paul@6 | 136 |
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| paul@6 | 137 | This affects installations where migrations between versions have occurred,
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| paul@6 | 138 | yet the Wiki configuration retains old regular expression details.
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| paul@6 | 139 |
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| paul@6 | 140 | Contact, Copyright and Licence Information
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| paul@6 | 141 | ------------------------------------------
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| paul@6 | 142 |
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| paul@10 | 143 | See the following Web pages for more information about this work:
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| paul@6 | 144 |
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| paul@6 | 145 | http://moinmo.in/MacroMarket/EventAggregator
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| paul@10 | 146 | http://moinmo.in/ActionMarket/EventAggregator
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| paul@6 | 147 |
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| paul@6 | 148 | The author can be contacted at the following e-mail address:
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| paul@6 | 149 |
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| paul@6 | 150 | paul@boddie.org.uk
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| paul@6 | 151 |
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| paul@6 | 152 | Copyright and licence information can be found in the docs directory - see
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| paul@6 | 153 | docs/COPYING.txt and docs/LICENCE.txt for more information.
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| paul@6 | 154 |
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| paul@65 | 155 | New in EventAggregator 0.5 (Changes since EventAggregator 0.4)
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| paul@65 | 156 | --------------------------------------------------------------
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| paul@65 | 157 |
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| paul@65 | 158 | * Changed the EventAggregatorNewEvent action to substitute only the stated
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| paul@65 | 159 | title, not the full page title, into the new page.
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| paul@66 | 160 | * Changed event colouring to use the event summary as the basis for
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| paul@66 | 161 | calculating the colour used in the calendar. This means that related
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| paul@66 | 162 | events can be coloured identically if their summaries are the same.
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| paul@65 | 163 |
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| paul@51 | 164 | New in EventAggregator 0.4 (Changes since EventAggregator 0.3)
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| paul@51 | 165 | --------------------------------------------------------------
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| paul@51 | 166 |
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| paul@51 | 167 | * Added a table view in the macro, using special topic/category styles to
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| paul@51 | 168 | provide background colours for events.
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| paul@56 | 169 | * Added category propagation from calendars to the new event form provided
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| paul@56 | 170 | by the EventAggregatorNewEvent action.
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| paul@56 | 171 | * Added a default template parameter to the macro, employed by the new event
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| paul@56 | 172 | form.
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| paul@56 | 173 | * Added a parent page parameter which is used by the new event form to place
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| paul@56 | 174 | new event pages in a particular location specific to a calendar or
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| paul@56 | 175 | collection of events.
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| paul@56 | 176 | * Improved the presentation of pop-up event information elements.
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| paul@59 | 177 | * Added navigation between display modes (calendar, list and table views).
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| paul@59 | 178 | * Ensured that calendar settings are retained when creating new events for a
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| paul@59 | 179 | calendar.
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| paul@59 | 180 | * Fixed various problems with events not having topics.
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| paul@51 | 181 |
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| paul@45 | 182 | New in EventAggregator 0.3 (Changes since EventAggregator 0.2)
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| paul@45 | 183 | --------------------------------------------------------------
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| paul@45 | 184 |
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| paul@45 | 185 | * Added a parameter to the EventAggregatorSummary action to select the
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| paul@45 | 186 | source of event descriptions for the RSS feed.
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| paul@45 | 187 | * Updated the documentation to cover the RSS support.
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| paul@47 | 188 | * Added the EventAggregatorNewEvent action.
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| paul@45 | 189 |
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| paul@41 | 190 | New in EventAggregator 0.2 (Changes since EventAggregator 0.1)
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| paul@41 | 191 | --------------------------------------------------------------
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| paul@41 | 192 |
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| paul@41 | 193 | * Improved the calendar view in the macro to use the fixed table layout
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| paul@41 | 194 | algorithm and to provide cells spanning potentially many columns for
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| paul@41 | 195 | continuing events. Introduced pop-up elements in order to show truncated
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| paul@41 | 196 | event names.
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| paul@41 | 197 | * Made the "weekly" naming policy the default in the calendar view.
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| paul@41 | 198 | * Improved the list view in the macro.
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| paul@41 | 199 | * Introduced RSS 2.0 feed support.
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| paul@41 | 200 | * Improved the help pages.
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| paul@41 | 201 |
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| paul@6 | 202 | Release Procedures
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| paul@6 | 203 | ------------------
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| paul@6 | 204 |
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| paul@18 | 205 | Update the EventAggregatorSupport.py __version__ attribute and the setup.py
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| paul@18 | 206 | version details.
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| paul@6 | 207 | Change the version number and package filename/directory in the documentation.
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| paul@51 | 208 | Update the setup.py and PKG-INFO files.
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| paul@6 | 209 | Update the release notes (see above).
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| paul@6 | 210 | Tag, export.
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| paul@6 | 211 | Archive, upload.
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| paul@10 | 212 | Update the MacroMarket and ActionMarket (see above for the URLs).
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