My client is using Events Calendar 02.02.07. The categories are currently setup as states. They want this filter to instead be preselected based on the user's profile county (currently all events are for one state, but there are plans to expand to more states). So my questions are, 1. Does your latest version allow for a parent cat and child cat filter option - cascading dropdowns. And 2. is it possible to preselect these categories based on user profile information? Thanks!

James,

We have plan to included category hierarchy in the drop down list in the new versions.

but we don't have plan to default to one of the selection base on user profile, however, by passing in a parameter, you can preselect the calendar to display using one of the category. the parameter will be cat=9 (for example)

Thanks for the cat=9 tip. We should be able to figure out a way to build the proper link.

Any idea when the subcat feature will be released? And would the qstring parameter option be available for the subcat as well?

I can't confirm when it is out but should not be so far away, yes, the qstring will work on sub cat as well.

Do you know if it's possible to pass in multiple categories as a parameter? If not, is it a difficult thing to change if we buy a source code version? We decided to change the state categories to counties until your new version is out, but today I found out they also want "state-wide" or default events to also show when the page loads. I was going to pass in cat=countyid on pageload, but it doesn't appear to be doing an IN() query so these defaults won't show.

James,

If you modify the source codes, yes, you are able to achieve this with multiple categories parameter. It is not available out of the box though.

Couple more questions:

1. Will there/ or is there an option to change "All Categories" text on the dropdown filter?

2. I see the categories are stored in the events table in a semi-colon delimited format, with a size of 100 nvarchars. We have over 100 categories currently and to create a "state-wide" event all need to be checked. Are there any issues with making the category field size larger to accommodate them all?

Thanks!

1. Yes, you can change that via DNN Localization. Go to Admin >> Languages, language editor, navigate to the left side, /desktopmodules/eventscalendar/App_LocalResources/view.ascx, you can find the text over there.

2. Sure, we will change it to 200 chars for the upcoming release.

Thanks.

Is it possible to NOT display "All Categories" is the Categories Filter (i.e. only display the user-created categories)?

Hi Dan,

I am afraid currently we cannot remove the "All Categories" from the drop down. And you can pass the parameter "cat" categoryID to the page to filter by categories.

For example:
www.abc.com/default.aspx?cat=2