Latest Changes

The latest major version of UNL Events was deployed August 10, 2015. This included a manager rework, fixing many functionalities that were decrepit, and updating the interface.

• May 20, 2016: A fix was deployed for subscription event auto-approval. Auto-approve options were not saving when the subscription was updated (they were when it was created) and the display of the option has been made to correspond.

• May 11, 2016: A small change was made regarding recommending an event to the UNL Main Calendar. Sometimes these events wouldn't include enough details for the moderators of the main calendar to approve/deny them. Thus, when checking "Consider for UNL Main Calendar", description and contact name are now required in the event, as well as title, location, and start date per usual.

• April 27, 2016: We have removed some functionality regarding the "personal calendar." Upon first entering the events manager, a user was given their own calendar which acted as a starting point for their event creation. However, these personal calendars really don't have a point and led to confusion, as users would accidentally create events on their personal calendar instead of departmental calendar. Thus, these calendars are no longer created and new users are brought to the welcome page, where they will receive directions on getting started with UNL Events.

• April 4, 2016: A minor bug fix went out regarding actions on searched events in the manager. The actions dropdown was simply redirecting users to the calendar's manage page when it should've been doing actions on the event, and that has been remedied.

• March 8, 2016: Users can now display the room number of events on events widgets contained in the UNL WDN Framework. A simple parameter will add the room number of the location, or the event's date/time if present, to the event on the event widget. See the WDN Resources Page for an example.

• February 9, 2016: Many users were having issues with events not getting deleted or moved, i.e. an event would move to upcoming, but a copy of it would remain in pending. Or an event would take multiple tries to actually delete. This issue was caused by subscriptions and recommendations pulling in multiple copies of the same event to a given calendar. This has been remedied by the code now only allowing one copy of each event per calendar, and clearing up most of the copies of the copied events that were causing the problems. Any further issues with this functionality can be brought to the devs for clarification.

• February 8, 2016: A Cleanup Old Events button was added on the Manage Calendar page, under the Pending and Past tabs. When clicked, this button will delete all old events on the tab it is on, "cleaning up" large lists of pending or past events that may be slowing the user down. Also, the Manage Calendar page was modified to remember which tab the user was on when working in the same calendar. For example, moving an event to Pending or Upcoming will no longer reset the user to page 1 of the Pending tab.

• January 26, 2016: Room number issues were finally fixed. The location room number will now NOT override the event/date/time-specific room number in the details of the event on the frontend. Soon we will be implementing the room number into the widgets and feeds as well.

• January 5, 2016: UNL Events' framework was updated to 4.1. This should cause very few actual functionality changes. However the breadcrumbs bar style was updated to match the new breadcrumbs. Please report any new 4.1 bugs if you find them!

• November 24, 2015: A minor release went out, including a Delete Calendar feature. This feature allows you to completely remove a calendar, and all its events, from the system. Events that you have created on this calendar, that other users have subscribed to and pulled in, will be removed. It is advised to not do this unless you are absolutely not using the calendar at all. Other changes included some bugfixes for recurring events with multiple datetimes.

• October 22, 2015: A bug was fixed where an an event with erroneous recurring data could show up in the upcoming view as being in the past. A bug was fixed with the upcoming view and recurring events; those should be working slightly more dependably now. A bug was also fixed where if the user did not specify an hour for an event, the system would set the start date in 1969.

• October 14, 2015: A major change was made with regard to new calendars. New calendars will now default to having Event Release Preference set to Immediate.

• October 9, 2015: A bug was fixed regarding events on days where Daylight Savings Time switched (e.g. Nov 1 2015). Events made on these days were having troubles with the hour being saved right. That has been fixed and editing and creating events on those days should now work normally.

• October 5, 2015: The "Submit an Event" link on the frontend calendar pages got slightly better behavior. It now sends the user to the corresponding "manage calendar" page in the manager, instead of "/manager" where the user's first calendar would be selected. An error pops up if the user does not have permissions but he/she is still able to select a calendar with permissions.

• September 15, 2015: A minor addition was made to the add users page, explaining that the generated user list includes users who have logged into events.unl.edu/manager and thus created their UNL Events account. Also, a bug with deleting subscriptions was fixed.

• September 9, 2015: A minor change was made to the "Subscribe to this calendar via ICS" functionality (note: this is not calendar subscriptions, but pulling the calendar data down to your computer's calendar client). The limit on upcoming events was removed so that these feeds would always see all upcoming events.