GroupCalendar
| Last Update: | Aug. 4, 2008 (3 weeks ago) |
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| Category: | Group/Guild Management, Quest & Leveling, and Raids & Encounters |
| Tags: | calendar, planning, raid, reminder, and signup |
| Project Manager: | Mundocani |
| Website: | visit |
| Current Version: | GroupCalendar 4.1 (for World of Warcraft 2.4.3) |
| Downloads Today: | 3,889 |
| Downloads Total: | 2,971,026 |
| Favorites: | 6,116 |
| Comments: | 3,283 |
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| Created On: | Nov. 23, 2005 |
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- About GroupCalendar
About Group Calendar
Group Calendar allows guilds or groups of friends to share an in-game event calendar. The guild can post raid events and members can post events for dungeons they need to do quests for. Additionally, players can provide feedback to the event's sponsor saying that they will or won't be attending an event. Once installed Group Calendar replaces the minimap current time tooltip and sun & moon icon. This can be used to open the UI or it can be opened using the /calendar command. For instructions on how to set up Group Calendar for your guild or for your personal use, see the online user's manual
Troubleshooting Disappearing Events
The most common problem people experience with Group Calendar is having events and signups disappear. There are several possible causes of this and here are a few things to check to try to clear up the problem:
- Have the creator of the missing events and members who can't see the events try running the most current version (even if it's beta) of Group Calendar available. I'm always finding and fixing various bugs which can interfere with event processing and propagation so there's a chance the problem has been addressed.
- Have the event creator choose "Rebuild Database" in the Group Calendar About tab. This will push a fresh and repaired copy of his events onto the network, overwriting any damaged copy that may be out there.
- If the event creator uses more than one computer or has a friend/spouse/roommate who logs into his account from their own computers, try disabling GC for the creator's characters on those other computers. Group Calendar is designed to allow roaming between computers, but it is difficult for it to handle and it may not work reliably, especially if there aren't enough other users in the guild or if there are other Group Calendar bugs interfering with the propagation of events.
- If using more than one computer, it's best to always choose the "Accept" option when told there are newer versions of your event data on the network. If that turns out to be the wrong choice and causes events to disappear, there will be an automatic backup in the GC Backup tab which can be used to restore those events. If friends or family log into your account from their computers let them know to always choose "Accept" as well if that dialog comes up.
- If you've ever copied the WTF folder from your account to another account folder (to replicate your UI layout on the other account) then this will mess up Group Calendar because it will think your characters are owned by both accounts. Go into the WTF/Accounts/<login id>/SavedVariables folder for the account you copied to and delete the GroupCalendar.lua file. When copying your settings folder to another account like that, always omit the GroupCalendar.lua settings file or delete it after the copy.
New in Group Calendar 4.1
- FEATURE: Added Maybe status, which is distinct from Standby (see compatibility issue note below)
- FEATURE: Event owners can preview their event as well as sign up their own alts and specify their own role
- FEATURE: Default limit for off-tank and off-healer roles is zero (may eventually remove these roles completely)
- FEATURE: Attendance notices now include the date of the event
- FEATURE: '/cal attend on|off' command added to disable attendance notices
- FEATURE: Default attendance view for manual and closed events is By Role
- FEATURE: Added right-click support to minimap button for accessing the new Blizzard Time Manager feature
- FEATURE: Added Russian translation (thanks to Eritnull)
- FEATURE: Updated Spanish translation (thanks to Maqjav)
- BUGFIX: Increased synch period to 3 minutes to improve reliability for roaming users
- BUGFIX: Synch status timer no longer restarts when a guild roster update is received
- BUGFIX: Fixed bug causing excess network chatter during synch (very common)
- BUGFIX: Fixed bug which could cause updated events and attendance to not be sent (rare)
- BUGFIX: Fixed bug which could cause roaming users to accept an update to their events which is inferior to one they've already received (rare)
- BUGFIX: Leaving a guild which used the guild data channel no longer gives repeating "You are not in a guild" messages
- BUGFIX: Updates which were corrupted when received are now correctly re-requested and no longer generate messages about an "internal error"
- BUGFIX: Transmute cooldown detections work in French (thanks to Ekhurr)
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Mystradk saidHi
EDIT: Ups! Just noticed that I am runing an old version of Group calendar, so disregard this post. Sorry.
EDIT 2: hmm I'm confused. I just downloaded version 4.1 and if I open the file GroupCalendar.toc then it says it is version 4.1b5. This means that I properly did have the newest version all along and therefore error is properly still in there.
I stumbled across this taint when I randomly checked my taint.log file. There is around 20 taints in total therefore I'm only linking one (see below). They all seem to make the taint in relation to "voicechat.lua" and "UIParent.lua".
An action was blocked in combat because of taint from GroupCalendar - VoiceChatTalkersButton1:Hide()
Interface\FrameXML\VoiceChat.lua:112 finishedFunc()
Interface\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:2173 UIFrameFadeUpdate()
UIParent:OnUpdate()
I would also like to tell you what I was doing at the time of the error, but I'm not sure at all :S. If I had to come up with a guess at what I was doing then it would be that I might have hit my "Ctrl" button which is linked to the internal voicechat in wow.
Thanks for talking the time to look at the error.
If you would like the full taintlog I'll be happy to send it to you.
Mystra
P.S. happy debugging :)
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Stralla saidwe have guildies who live in different time zones and when 3 of the sign in, it causes a pop-up saying something about checking the time because others have a different time set. Is there any way to disable this pop-up caused by GC?
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Mundocani saidNo it can't be disabled -- that popup means that their clocks are set wrong on their computers. Have them check that they've chosen the correct time zone in the system control panel and that their time and date are set correctly on their computer.
Group Calendar has to synch events between all members of the guild and so it needs to rely on all members having reasonably accurate time settings in order to keep things running smoothly. If any member is too far off (I think I allow something like 10 or 15 minutes or error before the message comes up), then it messes up signup tracking and can also create problems if those members switch to other computers which have the time set correctly.
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Stralla saidnot sure why 1 particular person has her clock set the way she does but between her 2 characters and a person in the eastern time zone (I and many other are in central) we get the pop up all time time. it is getting so annoying that I am getting very tempted to just stop using it period. If there is anyway that a check box can be added in the future, i would ask that you consider it.
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wurzel saidI noticed two things with 4.1, first off if you sign up for your own event as maybe and then revisit it, you'll always resign when you check the signups (you see the little "Your_toon has signed up for BT 8/8").
And 2nd the problem with alts running GC aswell which was already posted here - you get the Update / delete message after you log back on to your event-creator toon - even if the alt you were in before just uses it to see the crafting cooldowns and is in a totally different guild (so no shared channel or anything).
Anyways, thx again for the work on this great mod! :)
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Mundocani saidThanks, I haven't been able to reproduce the switching to an alt and then back to a main to get the "your events have been updated" message, but I'm still looking and trying. There must be something that happens that leads to it behaving this way, but I'm not sure what. Are your alts on the same realm? If not, is the realm they're on in a different time zone than the one your main is on? Maybe it's something goofy in the way I'm handling time zone differences, I just don't know.
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wurzel saidThe 2 alts that have guild calendar enabled are on the same realm. Mb related to the profession cd (tailoring and alchemy in that case) but that's just a wild guess ofc.
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sriggins saidSadly, we're going to have to cease using GC 4.1. Daily we're having problems of some people seeing events, others not.
Even on my own two clients (I two box) I made an event on one toon in the guild and the other toon never saw it. Not even after rebuild databases.
We do use a custom channel, not the guild option.
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Mundocani saidIf you're two-boxing then my first guess is that you've copied your settings from the WTF folder on one account to the other in order to replicate the UI. This would cause both accounts to think they own the same characters and the second account would ignore updates coming from the first account as a security measure (to prevent someone from attempting to send out events in your name).
The next version of GC will have code to detect this situation and notify you as well as adding a new 'disown' command to allow you to release ownership of characters you unintentionally claimed on multiple accounts.
Good luck with whatever solution you find though. I realize that GC isn't perfect, but doing a multi-user in-game calendar using a peer-to-peer distribution system over a chat channel isn't an easy problem to solve :)
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raithkell saidHey Mundocani,
I'm having the "used a different computer/crashed" message with the option to update or delete. When I click update, it seems to remove a random amount of events from our calendar. I am the ADMIN, but not the event setter. We have 6 events per week set every week...as of right now we have nothing showing for this week, even though all 6 events were there the other day. Please help
Thank you
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Mundocani saidUse the Backup tab in Group Calendar to put your events back to what they were before you clicked the Update button.
If you have a friend or spouse who logs into your account from their computer have then disable Group Calendar for all of your characters on their computer. That'll prevent them from processing/publishing data for your calendar.
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raithkell saidNo one logs into my character from anywhere. I am the only one that plays it and ONLY on my computer. I do not log in anywhere else. So is there anything else you can think of to why it is happening?
2nd thought...is there a way to setup so the events that have past, do NOT disappear?
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Runefire saidMy husband and I both downloaded this mod to us in our guild. For me it works just fine, i can sign up for events/raids with zero problems. Even logging onto my computer *so the mods are the same* it wont work for my husband, when we go to sign him up for a event/raid it will have his toon, let us choose a roll then just says pending, it wont sign him up completely. We've tried uninstalling, reinstalling, reloadui, not touching the mod til the sync is done, my computer, his computer, no mods except cal and just keeps telling us pending. The only error of any sort that we get is when we try to click to use local time vs server time, tells us its a nil value.
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Mundocani saidHm, the nil value is odd -- could you post the exact error message for me so I can check that out?
Have your husband log into his account, open Group Calendar, go to the About tab, and click Rebuild Database. That will reconstruct and repair any errors in his data and hopefully will clear up the problem.
Be careful copying settings between your two accounts by the way -- if you copy an account's data from the WTF folder from one account to another make sure to never copy the GroupCalendar.lua file. Copying this file will cause both accounts to think they own the same characters, which will cause conflicts when both accounts are logged in as well as causing both accounts to keep notifying you that changes are being made from another computer. This may not apply in your particular case, but be careful of it regardless.
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yourdarkside saidit keeps on asking to selsct a mirror and i do and it wont work
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Mundocani saidI'm sorry but I don't have any control over the Curse download process, you'll need to check the Curse support forums.
It does look like Curse is making some site changes, so possibly they're just having some flakiness for now. I just tried and was able to download so give it another shot.
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Milanh saidHaving issues with deleting events. I am the Administrator of Group Calendar and have all the necessary admin privileges in the guild.
Since the latest version I am unable to delete any events that I posted.
I looked through the forum and saw no solution to that issue.
Is there no way of deleting events?
Today I made a mistake that I placed our ZA Run at the wrong day and I found no way of deleting the event.
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Mundocani saidIf you open the event and then switch to the Edit tab there's a Delete button to remove the event.
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naiblanc saidI'm trying to download the groupcalendar v4 but every time i press download via the client, it asks me if i want to download, when i press yes it then comes up saying illegal application?? i tried to download manually but winrar won't help. help!
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Mundocani saidPlease see my response up above to yourdarkside -- sounds like a related problem.