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
Jacob Hantla
Pastor/Elder, Grace Bible Church
gbcaz.org
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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!
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:
Hope you resolve all of these next week!
Have joy in the Lord!
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.
Jacob Hantla
Pastor/Elder, Grace Bible Church
gbcaz.org
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!
Works much better. Here is a video of me creating an event. You can see about 1:20ish that it appears on my personal calendar but not on the calendar for the group which I invited. I would expect that an event for which I invited a whole group would function like a group event and be added to the group calendar.
Is there a better way to do group events like this?
http://screencast.com/t/zbocktVG8tt
Jacob Hantla
Pastor/Elder, Grace Bible Church
gbcaz.org
I think I answered my own question when I found the "New Calendar Item" button within a group calendar. This works...it wasn't intuitive. I would recommend that ability to set a "New Event" as a "New Calendar Item" or even make that a default (unless some people from a group were excluded in an invite) since most events will be for an entire group. Maybe I'm wrong...but that was the way I thought that the event was going to function.
Oddly, the calendar item that I made right before this video was for October 1st and it shows up on the September calendar. But I was able to quickly and easily create the calendar item for our small group.
http://screencast.com/t/EZvQZOB9W8
Jacob Hantla
Pastor/Elder, Grace Bible Church
gbcaz.org