The users of my Joomla based site often need to create an artice where the post some appointment dates. Now they would like to have an easy way to add calendar links for the most popular calendars ICal, Outlook, Thunderbird, Google Calendar. Do you know of a simple way how they could do that? Maybe there is a joomla plugin for that? Or maybe there is an online service somewhere where the user could enter the dates and then urls for the various calendars are created. Sort of lie ImageShack but for calenders ?
Have you taken a look at the different calendar extensions available for Joomla?
I would take a look at the list here.
The first one in the list, Zap Calendar sounds like it might meet your requirements. Although it is commercial!
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I have 300,000 emails in Gmail, from at least 10 years. I organize a lot of stuff in Gmail. Stack Exchange summaries get weekly dragged to a specific Label. I empty my four incoming inboxes, to put most things into deep freeze.
What I want to do is have “custom filters” to create a label, for instance, show “Emacs” emails from the Emacs Stack Exchange. First, Gmail doesn’t recommend this, since new emails will never be included in the search. Second, is there a better way to do this, for “many subjects” and ‘many themes’?
Granted a blanket search looks at everything. However, I would like to “save search inquiries”, so I can peruse them at a future date.
Any recommended books on power Gmail techniques or web blog posts, would be appreciated.
Obvious alternatives: (1) Search Google for “gmail power filters” or (2) Articles like Gmail Filters 101: Your Definitive Guide To Gmail Filters.
Slack offers Box/DropBox/Google integrations, specifically the ability to add (pick via a dialog) a file to Slack from one of these offerings.
I have tried my best look up the different sort of integration possibilities but cannot find any documentation that I can leverage to build my own (to another product).
How does one go about providing a similar integration for his product?
The reason you do not find anything on how to create integrate products similar to Google Drive and Dropbox in the official API documentation is that those are custom solutions created in collaboration between Slack and vendors like Google. If you want something similar for your product I would advise you to contact the Slack business team for details.
However, there is one feature in the API that allows you to create some of the functionality:
Slack app unfurling: Automatically add custom attachments whenever a user posts a message which contains a URL to your product. Those can include preview images and text of your product.
I have developed a student portal website for my college using Joomla 2.5 and now I want some mechanism to regularly update information on it.
My problem is that there are many societies in my college that organize events frequently and it is next to impossible to get their information on time to be updated on the site.
Is there some way possible by which those people can independently upload their events on the site without the administrator's interference and also without messing up with other facilities of the back-end?
The whole point of a CMS is to make things like this easier. As #emmanuel points out this is why there are extensions, you should use a calendaring extension.
In my experience one of the simplest things you can do if most people on your campus have Google accounts is to create a shared Google calendar that you give create access to for a representative of each club. Then embed that calendar on your site with one of the extensions for that. That way you don't have to deal with accounts on your site at all. There are a lot of ways to make it more complicated (like let each club have their own calendar and then you make a master calendar) but I think that could end up being more of a headache.
The biggest problem with calendars is getting people to list their events, because it is work for them. Sites with big empty calendars don't look very good. So you may want to make sure you have some events by finding out if there are some repeating events that you can set up.
You could try jevents component: http://www.jevents.net/
You could grant permissions to your sub admin users and add / edit / delete their events from the front end without giving them access to the backend of your site.
I have a google calendar and i have used Gcalndar extension to view events on my website.
Is it possible somehow that i can send the all joomla users an email about new events from google calendar
You wouldn't be able to do it through Google Calendar unless you export a list of emails then paste that list in to the guests box in the event details. That would be a pretty big pain to do every time. It would probably be a lot easier to use one of the many newsletter management extensions to send out event announcements through the Joomla site. Tons of options in the JED here - http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/content-sharing/newsletter
How to let visitors of the website provide their email ids, optionally, for further future communication with them. Its not specifically a newsletter subscription or anything (but could as well be) but just a polite pop-up on visiting a page, asking them to provide their email address, if they wish to be contacted sometime in future.
this is to run on a Joomla based website.
just a simple form (can be a pop-up) that asks for user email ids and then stores it in the database.
Not a Mailing List subscription or anything like it (so no auto-responder subscription needed)
Thanks
This should be very easy for the people that know !
I don't think there is a ready-made extension available for this, but there are some extensions that you can use as examples to put together something yourself. You could look at newsletter subscription components and modules to see how they make a form for receiving a name and email address, and how they save it to the database. You could also look into extensions that use Squeezebox, the built-in Lightbox look-alike, or you could check one of the login modules that popup.
However, I think you would be ready most quickly if you would just install a newsletter component, change the text of the subscription module (and possibly corresponding changes to front-end component output), and then you simply don't send newsletters. In this way you would start building a database table with names and email adresses as you seem to want.
I beleive sm2email can do it:
http://sm2extensions.com/content/view/143/105/