Thanks for getting the Website-WoW GEM PHP functionality working. I seem to recall a mention some time ago of integrating GEM into the in-game calendar.

Is this something you foresee in the near future? At the very least it would be great to create the events. GEM has so much more functionality than the in-game calendar, but sometimes it is hard to get even a small guild to completely buy into a particular addon.

I'm sure the APIs are already in place, just needs to be added to the code.
Event creaters/moderators can set invite status, so would really just need something like. On Gem creation, post to guild/all channel members. And on update, if event creater/moderator, accept/decline invitation.

This would also directly integrate GEM into other addons that use the in-game calendar. Titan/Fubar addons as an example.


I would love to see this soon.

hi,

indeeed the integration of the blizzard calendar will come very soon.
A couple of weeks i guess.

The fubar/titan integration is not planned for the moment.

just to understand, for my part i stopped playing since 6 monthes and will not start again until next year because of a huge amount of work IRL, but i still try to maintain things running for GEM, so please be patient.

Yeah, my point about fubar/titan was more that there are addons that exist that integrate fubar/titan with the in-game calendar, so if GEM can write to the ingame calendar, those addons will pick up the events from the ingame calendar.

Ingame calendar support was started last week, and should be available quite soon (at least a first version event if not optimal).

Any update on this? Do you need testers?

Hi, i will try do release an alpha this week, need to do some clean up before and have no time for it.

The beta release for the ig calendar support is ready since mid-september, but we had to address some other issues (wow and personal) first.

We hope to release a new version very very soon, I'm using the ig calendar support myself as beta tester and it's quite useful

Any update when this will be available for general download?

Sorry, I was away for the past few weeks, and movix is really too busy to do anything.

I'll release the current version we have, it still has some tweaks missing, but it should be an improvements compared to the current version.
I'll release it as a beta version though.

Uploaded a beta version to curse.com

Awesome. It looks good.

A couple of things though if I can make the suggestions ...

1) Selecting the "Type" of event in GEM creates the same type of event in the calendar. ie. If you select a Raid it creates a standard event rather than a Guild Event.

2) Adding an "external" member in GEM also invites them in the in game calendar. I believe this will only work for members outside of the guild, or on the standard events. [CalendarEventInvite("player")]

3) Add external members by Guild Rank (of your own guild).

4) If someone accepts an invite and then later declines in the calendar, this gets reflected in GEM.

The first two I would say are the most beneficial/important, and should be relatively simple to implement as long as you know your way around your code. This would allow you to create events for the "Raiding Arm" of your guild.

Also a couple of possible bugs.

1) I am unable to create a standard event in the calendar, not so much a big deal because GEM is doing most of what I need now.

1) I don't understand, currently it selects the correct tag in bliz_cal, depending on which type of raid event you choose in GEM. Creating something other than a guild event in bliz_cal is currently not supported due to calendar limitations
2) This is planned, but like you said, limited to people outside the guild
3) Don't understand, but since external is not yet supported, I'll see later
4) This should work, if not, it's a bug.

Concerning the bug, I suggest you enable GEM debugging console and take a look. GEM has to take control over the calendar to prevent data corruption if the player (or another addon) opens the calendar while GEM is working on it.

OKay, I'll try to explain a bit further.

1) When creating a new event directly in the calendar you have the option of creating an Event (that you *HAVE* to invite people to), a Guild Event (that you can invite externals to, but all the guild sees), and a Guild Announcement (not so useful for the purposes of GEM). I was hoping that you could create an Event using GEM so you could limit the number of people who could see it by specifically inviting people (ie. not trial members). But Alas you are correct, looks like Blizzard removed the api for that one. (GG Blizz). So ignore that one.

2) Good to hear that this is planned. I lead a number of "pug/friend" runs being able to set up a template in GEM and the external members get an invite on their In Game Calendar if they don't have GEM or aren't part of my channel would be awesome. Of course I'm curious as to how this will work if I don't have access to create an event in the Game Calendar - I'm looking at changing guilds and will be a mere member.

3) Can ignore this too, was thinking for a "Standard" Event (that you can't create using APIs) you could add external members in GEM based on Guild Rank (Standard Raider and above) but of course, can't create Standard Events, so this is not possible.

4) Hmmm... will test again. Could be due to my WOW being a .....

RE: The bug. It is definitely an issue. Can be worked around by turning the IG-Calendar channel off.

Thanks for your work. Looking forward to getting "2" implemented. If you need any assistance let me know.

Hi

1) I understand what you mean (want), but the solution would be to handle this in GEM itself, not in the calendar. GEM is designed to show the event to all people in the same channel, that's exactly what the type 'guild event' is
To solve your issue, you'll have to handle this in GEM directly, using a different 'sort' plugin, which will automatically put trial in the substitute ou replacement queue in GEM (and it will be reflected in the calendar automatically). Such a plugni does not exist, but is easy to add

2) If you don't have wright access to the calendar, GEM will detect it and won't allow you to enable bliz_cal sync, sorry. When 'custom event' type will be supported, it might solve your issue


4) can you explain how to get this error with an example?