BUG: Create Event: Doesn't Work

Here is a video of me trying to create an event for my smallgroup. Note how I make the event for Oct 1st at 6:00 pm and then it says that it is created for Oct 2nd at 1:00 am. Also, that event does not appear at all on my calendar (nothing is on my calendar).

Do the event creation and calendar function work at all? My smallgroup coleaders and I were planning on putting our calendar on there so our smallgroup would have a single place to look (and also begin using faithlife regularly). We obviously abandoned that plan for now.

You can watch the video of the problem at: http://screencast.com/t/tWNgFkmd

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Richard Kiene

We are aware of this issue and should have a fix deployed this coming Monday or Tuesday. I will let you know as soon as the fix is live so you can start using events for your small group.

Thanks for helping make Faithlife better!

NB.Mick

We are aware of this issue and should have a fix deployed this coming Monday or Tuesday.

What I found: There may be several issues.

The New event function actually creates a unique url with the name of the event (which must be unique, too) and the number 1 attached. The url seems to be customizable. I dont know if this design is smart, since I can imagine many people wanting to name their bible study group event "bible study" or "bible study group..." - This might frustrate some users. It seems someone thought about creating unique URLs and programmed an added 1 (and maybe even a lookup, if 1 is taken just iterate, which is fine) but someone else imposed unique names (maybe thinking that one indiviual may be invited to "bible study" by multiple groups?) and rendered this a bit useless. However, generating an event works, editing it works as well and posting News works on the entry level. I haven't tested invitations at all. S

Some serious bugs:

The time is wrong - I used Oct 3, 5 p.m and the calendar entry now reads 3 p.m. This keeps wrog even if one edits an existing calendar entry. I'd hope you fix this and assign a timezone selection as well
The calendar entry doesn't show in my Calendar
When I post a News to this calendar entry, it appears in My Faithlife, but the link to the calendar entry is wrong, since it misses "event" in the URL

Hope you resolve all of these next week!

Jacob Hantla

Hope you resolve all of these next week!

Me too. Thanks for working on this. I would love to use faithlife to help our smallgroup and to help introduce many in our smallgroup to digital Bible study using Logos and Faithlife.

Richard Kiene

I just deployed code which addresses most of the issues you've mentioned. We should have another update on Wednesday. Please give it a try and thanks for helping make the site better!