First, I have to say great job on the Simple Gallery!  Many people maintaining portals are not techies.  However, it seems many modules are written just for techies.

Now the question is would you consider basing a simple document library on the same concept?  For starters, your Browse... button for uploads is perfect, as opposed to the more confusing layout of uploads in the standard modules.  The std doc library also has options that most people will never user or even understand like click tracking.

If the 'albums' turned into categories and the categories were just listed as text, then that would be great.  On the document list, just show description(doc title), type (PDF, MS Word, etc) and size.  Maybe allow a config screen for which fields to show and you could add owner and date or whatever else.  Maybe show icons for the type as an option.  Just some ideas to start.

Thanks for the great work!!!

Here is a good starting point I think.  Nice layout and easy to read. Could be used for documents as well as files. I wanted to use this module but the original developer seems to have quit working on it.

http://www.dnnfreemodules.com/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx

You could link direclty to a catergory or just use the directory layout.

Of course my vote is still for a good event calendar

Yes, a good calendar is one of the modules that is really lacking for DNN.

Scott, I'm not sure how you wish to move forward with a calendar module. I'm all for "SimpleCalendar", the big question is, what is "Simple" and what crosses the line to complex. I already have several users running AVCalendar. Great module, but overkill for most. And it's missing what is in my mind the most important component of a calendar module, a method to import or export to eliminate duplicate data entry. I do love the "Roll Up" feature however.

I have seen where SigmaPro is going to do some syncing with Outlook folders, thats pretty cool, but again, what about when you need to print, or use seperate folders etc.

I would like to see a few users who have a requirement for this get together in a forum to duke it out over whats required and whats not. As I watched the development of other "Calendar" modules out there. I quickly watched them turn from calendars to booking to registration to a million other things besides a CALENDAR!

This has been on my list for quite awhile as well.

I need very much to replace the cities asp web calendar.

One thing I am looking for is the ability to have a master calendar on a page, but also have the ability to filter by Category (or in my case, department) using a dropdown.

A nice daily or weekly List view would also be a nice option.

One issue I have with the AVCalendar is that it doesn't create the Database entries for the events.

Instead it saves the repeat event parameters.  This save DB size but makes it very difficult to make individual changes to an instance of the repeated event.

My old calendar does the opposite.  Repeating all of the event data for each instance of the event.

I am working on calendar that will save one instance of the Event Data, and then save the event Times/Durations etc in a separate table.  I think this gives the most flexibility, in terms of database efficiency, size and easy updates.

Right now I have the Stored procedure that will add the event based on the repeat parameters.

The calendar discussion has moved to here.

It shoudl do the majority of things you have mentioned, thanks for pointing out that repeating event issue, I wouldn't have thought about that issue.

The calendar module will most likely emulate similar functionality to mychurchevents.com

 

A while back, this thread started out as a request for a Simple Document Library (then slowly evolved into a calendar discussion).

I would also like to see a Document Library with functionality very similar to the Simple Gallery (which I just downloaded yesterday and am very impressed with).  I've looked all over and can't find anything out there (for a reasonable price at least) that really meets my needs.  The ability to have categories (i.e. 'albums') nested to the n-th level seems to be the biggest thing missing (at least from what I've seen), and you've already got that functionality in the Gallery.

Just my two cents and something to think about.

Alan