[adminKeymaster]

Thank you for your purchase & for reaching out to us. I’m happy to help.

You are correct that some of the instructions on the landing page is legacy instructions. The reference to “soSIMPLE Calendar Settings” and the two calendar links – to FMPro & to the sample web calendar – don’t work correctly. That will be fixed in the next release in the next couple of days. You will need to open soSIMPLE Calendar Settings.fmp12 to see the calendar rendering.

After speaking with FMPHost, the one thing we discovered is that the FileMaker class file (the standalone PHP class supplied by FileMaker) is not included in their web publishing class and must be copied to the soSIMPLE directory, or to somewhere else in their class path.

They should be able to take care of this for you. Please let me know if you have any trouble with this, and I can see if we can get you that class file.

If this is not the issue, please let me know so we can resolve this for you.

[adminKeymaster]

When using Server-Side Async ( as opposed to “Client-Side Scripting”), you do have more limited control over both the actions (these actions run server-side), and the interface, since this mode doesn’t rely on FileMaker Pro-native tools. This mode is great for FileMaker WebDirect, publishing to the web, and giving read-write access to colleagues who don’t use FileMaker Pro. When working within FileMaker Pro & FileMaker Go, we recommend using Client-Side Scripting.

Having said that, you can add any custom fields you’d like to your Server-Side Async Calendar:

1. Add the fields you’d like to see in the popup window to the Data Source layout in your solution (or in our starter solution, if that’s what you’re using).
2. Go to soSIMPLE Calendar Settings, select your calendar, and click “Edit” next to Data Source.
3. Scroll to the bottom and click “Edit” next to “Custom Fields”
4. Add any fields you’d like to show in the edit window

In addition to Custom Fields, the next release will automatically include checkboxes for all your resources, and a location field when you are using the Maps view.

We are also able to completely customize the event window to show it exactly the way you’d like, with specific layout, color schemes, displays of value lists, etc. Please let me know the details if you’d like us to estimate that.

[adminKeymaster]

It sounds like you’re trying to paste intoa script instead of pasting the script into the script manager.

1. Click “Use in FileMaker Pro
2. Click “Copy Scripts”
3. Go to your solution and open “Script Manager”
4. Without creating or opening any script, just choose “Paste” from the edit menu

Let me know how that goes. If you need any additional information, let us know.

We’re hoping to post our “famous 5-minute integration” video in a few days. Keep your eyes out.

Best,

Ken

[adminKeymaster]

Similar process:
Go to Calendar, click “Edit” next to “Themes”
Scroll to custom CSS and enter:

.weekend_block {
background-color: pink;
opacity:0.5;
filter:alpha(opacity=50);
z-index: 0;
pointer-events: none;
}

[adminKeymaster]

This is not one of the configuration settings, but we’ve added a place to add custom code such as this.

Go to your calendar in soSIMPLE Calendar settings and click “Edit” next to where it says “Options”.

Scroll to the bottom of the Options window – the last Option is “Custom JS”. Paste the following code into Custom JS:

			scheduler.addMarkedTimespan({ // blocks each Sunday,Saturday
				days:  [0, 6], 
				zones: "fullday",
				type:  "dhx_time_block_not", 
				css:   "weekend_block" 
			});

[adminKeymaster]

soSIMPLE has been updated to address this issue.

You can download here:
http://www.paradisepartners.com/products/try-sosimple-calendar-for-filemaker/sosimple-download-demo-trial/
Please let us know if there’s anything else we can help with.

Best,

Ken

[adminKeymaster]

Hi Guenter –

We confirmed this bug.

We’ll release an update that fixes this shortly. We’re checking to see if we have a quick workaround for you.

Thanks

Ken

[adminKeymaster]

Not at all.

We don’t make any calls back to our web site. WebDirect over SSL DOES require that web viewers be encrypted, too. In that case, you can change the urls in soSIMPLE to https:// instead of http:// and the calendar will work great in secure mode.

Here’s the places that it shows up:

• In the soSIMPLE Settings preferences (gear icon)
• In your web viewer object (will be copied correctly if you change it in preferences)
• In the Data Source setup (“edit” next to data source)
• In the config.php file

[adminKeymaster]

Try adding the following to the url (right before the #)

&printPDF=1

[adminKeymaster]

HOTFIX: Please add the following to your Theme:

1. Open soSIMPLE Calendar Settings
2. Select your Calendar
3. Click “Edit” next to your “Theme” in the lower left.
4. Scroll to the bottom and click “Edit” next to “Custom CSS”
5. Paste the following into custom CSS and click Done.

.dhx_cal_event div.dhx_body {
height: 100%;
}

This fix will be rolled into the next release as well.

[adminKeymaster]

I confirmed a bug with “Use simple event box”. Please turn that option off – I’ll let you know when that’s fixed.

[adminKeymaster]

The soSIMPLE Calendar file includes full developer access. The Settings file remains as it is, since it’s only used for configuration.

[adminKeymaster]

I’m not sure how you would want that to look – each event’s color split in two vertically? Something like that? Or maybe a border of the event in one color, and the background another.

You may be able do some of this without custom development, but what I describe above would require development, and we’d have to work out what you’re looking for before pricing it. Here are some options without custom development:
– One color for the background, one color for the text (those two fields are already set up for you).
– You can also use the FileMaker calculation engine to color-code your text, or add special characters or icons. You can even use HTML markup right in the calculation.

[adminKeymaster]

They key gets entered by clicking “Register” when you first open the calendar.

Also, when you purchased the software, you should have received a user name and password for the file “soSIMPLE Calendar”. In that file, go to the Preference > Calendar Options, then click “Re-login”. That user name and password will open up developer mode. Then you can change that layout with the dates, and change any users and passwords that you’d like.

Thanks

Ken

[adminKeymaster]

Those of you that don’t use the American date format, before using the calendar you’ll have to change the “Option” setting to change it to “European”. I know you may not be in Europe – but it kind of sounds better than “non-American”.

To change this:

1. open “soSIMPLE Calendar Settings” file
2. select your calendar
3. click “Edit” next to “Options”, then “Edit” again
4. change the first setting, “Date Format” to “European”

This will change the setting for any calendar that shares the same “Options” setting.

http://paradisepartners.com/products/calendar-documentation/calendar-builder-reference/options-setup/datetime-format/

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