Following my debacle with how to register an upcoming event here, it struck me how strange it is that the calendar registration doesn't generate a forum announcement.

It's not exactly rocket science to automate a forum post from the data given when you submit your event to the calendar.

Sten

I have wished for this months ago. Now that there is somebody else hoping to get it maybe they find time to do it.

Azazel wrote:
It should be optional though, because if all events have a post, you could just as well look at the calendar.
What I'd like, is a link to output all incoming events as a list, with some filters (eg. what are all the incoming ECQ in Europe?)

With the latest update on how to report a tournament (including a link to the calendared event), my suggestion that registering through the calendar automates a forum post for registration, is even further strengthened.

Such an automated post would include all relevant data, making reporting a matter of raping and pasting the registration-post and add the number of players along with some text to flesh the report out plus the TWD.

As of the current situation we have to manually enter data three times, with the explicit demand that such manually entered data interconnect with each other. That's, quite frankly, absurd.

It is not so simple task to make automatic posts with all the complex backend systems involved. You can always first enter your tournament into the event calendar and then copy+paste the relevant information to your forum post.

jhattara wrote:


It seems Jevents already supports automatic event-exports to facebook and twitter by means of AutoTweet. I'd assume it should be able to export to Kunena as well (or Fireboard or whatever you're using).

Forum is Kunena but the tournament registry is completely it's own custom built system.

jhattara wrote:


In that case it shouldn't be too hard to send a copy of the accepted data set (as the calendar currently is built to refuse "incorrect" data), to the forum (Kunena) data layer. Basically you need to read the php-code where Kunena stores a forum post and replicate it.

I don't know if the user-ID is connected to a server-side session ID,or associated with a coookie being bouced between browser and server. In the same way I don't know wether the calendar-ID is generated before storing the data or extracted after the data is stored. In the latter case the ID (and this the link) has to be fetched before the copy is sent to Kunena storage.

Either way, complex back-ends shouldn't matter all that much as the suggested feature (minus an eventual calendar-ID) is all handled at the php front-end.

It's still work. It would require reverse engineering what Kunena exactly does when a post is created. And reverse engineering is never easy, simple or fast. And with back-end I meant the Joomla! framework in general, not the site back-end in particular.