TOPIC: General Questions

Hello There,

Cause my message is to long for your CONTACT US Form (?!?) i have to post it right here:

I am deeply interessted in using you web2cal in one of my projects soon.

Before i will buy a license i have a ´few short questions to your developer team:

1. Where are you located? I nowhere can find any information about location or phone number etc. Just get a Contact Information to your partner "shareIT" in germany and i get, that they are located straight in my hometown (cologne).

2. In Demo mode i couldn't get the function you descripted, that i can drop a event to the mini calender to another date. How this works? How this works if i have severall events at the date i put it to? How is is sorted etc.?

3. Is it possible to change ste standart time a new event takes to another time that 30 minutes easylie?


I got enhanced php knowledges and basic JS ones... Would you say, that i can be able to change your script to the needs i got?


Bets wishes from Germany,
Benjamin Britten





P.S.: If possible i need a nearby reply, cause i am in time hurry right now to choose a script...

Hello Benjamin,

Here are your answers,

1. Contact Information: We are based in East Coast of US (New Jersey). I have email you a detailed contact info with phone number.
2. The demo on website, is not updated. Many features are disabled on purpose.
You can drag only events only when you are in "month" view to any date in minical. The event's StartTime and endTime are updated to the date in minical.
3. I didn't understand your question.

Basic JS knowledge is necessary to work with our script. We have provided some very simple PHP Examples to help you understand how the integration works.

Hope I answered all your questions.

Thanks for your fast Reply and the emailed Informations.

My third question was not that important, i just asked, if it is (and i think myself OF COURSE it is) possible to change the standart duration of a new event, when i click into a empty cell, from now 30 Minutes down to just 15 Minutes duration.

Replying on question 2 i got, that i can only drag Events in moth view onto MINICALL to a new date. Where is the point not to implement that really good feature to Dayview?

Nevertheless your application fits the most to my needs of all apps i looked up till now. Perhaps you can quiten me a bit, that i can do the work and it is no tthat hard to understand your application in detail as far as i have to, to fit my needs perfectly


Perhaps fprum is wrong place, but i am straight people so i approve myself to write down my main requirements i have to code on my own:

Can i (with a bit (or more) of practise of course!) change the input fields like i need to? I read the docu, but no possibility to try it out for me with th epremium version This is much important for me, cause i have to change it to the needs of a medical practise and i can not buy a product like this one and tell the client afterwards, that i am not able to change the input forms :/

Furthermore i am sure that you are using a DB in background (of course you do). But is this mysql? Haven't find this peace of information right now
Connected withhis question is it possible for me to manually enter events into the database without using the w2c, but the event allthrough is available in thw w2c after adding (for example with a external webform)?

Alternatively i also can ask if it is possible (just if it is possible, not HOW ) to make the Events READONLY (yes it is i know) but at the sametime able to enter NEW ones in free cells? (I can also ask, if it is possible to create a instance of the w2c where a patient can pick up his own FREE date to visit the practise without seeing the names of the other dates, u know?)


Sorry a) for the baaaad english and b) for question you surely not have to answer, cause they are to detailed, or to much fitting on just my project :/



Beste wishes and thank you for reading this,
Benjamin

You can drag the events from day view also, But only the all day events (in the grid above). The reason is: When you drag an event in the regular grid, the time also changes. If the intension is to just change date and not time, our purpose is defeated.

You can write your own forms, any number of fields you can collect. W2C does not limit you in any fashion. You can create your own form in any html editor and provide that form's ID to W2C. Check the examples and you will see this.

W2C is not aware of any backend code, so it does not support DB. But expects you to build the DB info. The reason is: We want you to use W2C with ANY kind of back end. If you are using Java for example, you could implement Ajax behavior with DWR or jQuery (ofcourse there are many many more ways). With W2C you can build your own back-end.

Yes you can add events directly in DB too. W2C will render them just like any other event. Only the mandatory fields need to be provided.

Read-Only Grid is supported. But your question is more of implementation and I would say it is possible.

If you have implementation level questions and not related to W2C, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. directly.



Sam

Hello again

Thanks for your time!

I think i get your points, thanks, but i have to ask again for database usage:
I can just code within PHP, so what is my task when i bought W2C and want to connect it with a databse? I mean, W2C have to store the events in any case, right? So how it works to connect it to my DB? How can i tell him that the fordfield NAME has to go into my database field table.name ?

Greetings
Benjamin

In web2cal you write your own queries. In the downloaded package, check the php examples and it should give you a better idea of database integration.