Hi,
I have set up a new Calendar feature for the Mokes Inc. Forum and you can access it via the menu at the top of the page, to the left of the Gallery option. This has come about from the the suggestion/feedback thread started last week looking for peoples input and ideas for improving the Forum.
It looks quite easy to use as it displays a month at a time and you have the option to add your own Moke events that become available for all to see,
there is no approval process. You do need to be a standard member to add new events, this is to prevent spammers, and all events are visible to guests so if you want to see some new faces include some contact details like a mobile number so they can call you. You choice if you wish to display your email address, but this forum does get targeted by machine and human email harvesters for spamming purposes.
When you do create a new event you have the option to generate a New Post so people can click on your event in the Calendar and be directed to the post to read more details. By default it will create the post in this the Moke Events Calendar board, or you can select another board if you have a compelling reason to do so(maybe swap meets on the Trading post Board???), and you will still need to create a separate post in the Moke Events Chat board for ongoing discussions about the event.
The custodians have briefly discussed whether having two separate boards to keep the event announcements, only updated by the creator of the event, separate from the general chat about the event is a still a good idea or not so for the time being we are going to keep it this way but interested to hear how others feel.
The default options for the Calendar shows up everyone's birthdays, that has been turned off
, and the Calendar was full of American Public Holidays so I deleted them and a few others and will be looking to restock it with local public holidays and anniversaries to help people plan their Moke events around. If anyone wants to let me know the relevant dates for their state or country it will save me a lot of time going looking. It is an Admin only function and I can't see anyway to make it available to the masses to update.
On the Home page there is a rather obscure box area that gets displayed containing upcoming events in the next 60 days and I have not seen anyway to move it or make it more prominent at this stage. And it would be nice if the dates listed in the Calendars on the left side of the main page were clickable, or at least highlighted, if there is an event on for that date, but the choices are all or nothing so I chose nothing to avoid the confusion of clicking through to empty dates.
So add your events and let everyone know and if you have any questions just ask away in this thread.
Terry