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euevents
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6 Anni 3 Mesi fa #16052 da euevents

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Sorry to come back on this again.

We are managing a website with 3.000 events every year. So you can understand the workload is pretty heavy. The amount of event organisers uploading the events by themselves is increasing, but still not enough. Our volunteers are squeezed searching and uploading events. The critical point is, we find events today and we can upload them only in 2 week-time... so this is not much efficient at all!

Other platforms are allowing to simply upload events via an excel sheet or other sort of tables. Events are then normally featured on their websites. And we seem to understand from other Joomla users that they would appreciate this, too. We are surely not the only ones processing such an amount of events and that this simplified version might bring a lot of added value to ICAgenda.

In fact, we would be happy if we could simply skip the event description part (e.g. the event page itself) and directly link to the external website of the organisers. In other words, the table should simply contain date, category, image url, external link.

Not sure the idea is clear. If it is not, please make a sign and will try to clarify it further.

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6 Anni 3 Mesi fa #16057 da Lyr!C

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Hello,

In fact, we would be happy if we could simply skip the event description part (e.g. the event page itself) and directly link to the external website of the organisers. In other words, the table should simply contain date, category, image url, external link.

This is an option that will be added in iCagenda 3.8 (currently in dev status, and soon in alpha test version for pro users).
The option will allow to replace the iCagenda default view by a joomla article or an url.
Maybe this is what you're looking for ?
(note: i may add too an option to auto redirect to event's website url if set for each event).

Best regards,
Cyril

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6 Anni 3 Mesi fa #16059 da euevents

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On the latter, e.g. redirecting directly to the external link, we would be extremely grateful. When 3.8 is foreseen to be launched?

With regard to the uploading modality, this will not spare us the strife of uploading all these thousand events one by one. A source table or some sort of database would do better.

Sorry if I am not clear!

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6 Anni 3 Mesi fa #16061 da Lyr!C

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Hello,

euevents ha scritto: On the latter, e.g. redirecting directly to the external link, we would be extremely grateful. When 3.8 is foreseen to be launched?

No exact date for now, but keep an eye on the roadmap, as date may changed depending on next Joomla 3.9.0 release (still in beta).
icagenda.joomlic.com/docs/roadmap

As you can see, the 3.7 serie for iCagenda is still a "in process" serie.

euevents ha scritto: With regard to the uploading modality, this will not spare us the strife of uploading all these thousand events one by one. A source table or some sort of database would do better.

Sorry if I am not clear!

Well, what not using one of the export/import data extensions you can find on the JED ? (i don't know, but maybe one could help to import data from a csv or excel file ?)

Best regards,
Cyril

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6 Anni 3 Mesi fa #16073 da euevents

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Do you suggest to ask someone here on the forum? If so, how to best reach out to them?

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6 Anni 3 Mesi fa #16074 da euevents

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And thanks for the roadmap! If in the end you really intend to, I would suggest to list the possibility of external links from the homepage, as discussed above.

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6 Anni 2 Mesi fa - 6 Anni 2 Mesi fa #16078 da Lyr!C

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Hello,

euevents ha scritto: Do you suggest to ask someone here on the forum? If so, how to best reach out to them?

Not really (but maybe another user knows ?)...

I write that you may find a useful extension on the JED: extensions.joomla.org/category/migration...ata-import-a-export/
I've not tested any, as i do it by myself when i need to do specific data transfert, using PHP admin and sql requests, but some of those extension may help for data import/export task... Don't know which one could help the best, but good to have a look at ;-)

And thanks for the roadmap! If in the end you really intend to, I would suggest to list the possibility of external links from the homepage, as discussed above.

Well, the roadmap list major changes, or feature, and not all options that will come (for one reason: i've got a lot of things in my pocket for the future of iCagenda ;-)

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For the list "Details features requested by the community", this one is not updated since a bit of time, but i will redo this list (clean and clear) in the upcoming month(s). (when i will check all requests and wishes from the dedicated topic on this forum...) :-)