Release information
This is a new version of the DPCalendar Joomla calendar extension. All users are kindly requested to update. Please read the release notes for a complete list of changes in this release.
Prerequisites
DPCalendar needs the following environment to run successfully:
- Joomla 3.9 and above
- MySQL >= 5 with the mysqli driver activated
- PHP >= 7.4.0
- Browsers: Firefox, Edge, Chrome, Opera but not Internet Explorer
- Curl is needed when interacting with external systems like Google calendar or PayPal
Installation
To install DPCalendar, you have to download the package and upload it through the Joomla installer. You can also install DPCalendar through the built in Joomla web installer. After a successful installation configure the component, modules and the plugins and publish them. More information how to get started with DPCalendar can be found in our introduction articles.
Upgrade
To upgrade DPCalendar from an earlier version, just install the package or individual extensions with the Joomla installer, DPCalendar will handle the upgrade procedure by itself.
Main changes in the 8.0 series
- [#7530] Booking coupon code
- [#7819] Add an extra payment confirmation step when doing a paid booking
- [#7990] Embed recordings from zoom when event has ended
- [#8088] Allow to define the booking state in the manual plugin
- [#8091] Display unpublished events when is author or has permission
- [#8095] Option to create a zoom meeting when saving an event
- [#8144] Add tickets review step during booking process
- [#8145] Add an extra confirmation step in booking process
- [#8146] Create one ticket for whole series instead of for every instance
- [#8175] Option to require tickets to see the content of a custom field
- [#8227] Multiple payment providers configurations per plugin
- [#8229] Custom text and icon for payment providers
- [#7394] Use the countries from the database for locations
- [#7396] Event author should be able to administrate the bookings of his events on the front end
- [#8013] Link images to event details page in upcoming module and list views
- [#8018] Option to SQL plugin to use joins, order and group by
- [#8020] Do not use double CSS classes when referencing upcoming events for styling
- [#8032] When single instances can be booked then do not use the original event
- [#8057] Delete bookings when the payment process is aborted
- [#8058] Cancelling a booking should decrease capacity used counter
- [#8063] Invoice options for inline text and to exclude tickets
- [#8071] Author can see zoom login when has no tickets
- [#8073] Do not preload zoom videos
- [#8076] Do not display amount of tickets in confirm page and invoice
- [#8077] Let people join during the zoom meeting
- [#8086] Use white tooltip for better link rendering
- [#8093] Add dimensions to lazy loaded images to prevent reflow
- [#8094] Define map dimensions as inline styles to prevent reflow
- [#8096] Add zoom password hash field
- [#8101] Better information text when no permissions on ticket check in
- [#8113] Better date formats in resources view
- [#8119] Separate permission to administrate bookings/tickets
- [#8122] Unset capacity used when copying an event
- [#8123] Do not ask for ticket holder notifications on save as copy task
- [#8131] Add more fields to the booking CSV export
- [#8137] New fields to bookings and tickets list view to add custom HTML
- [#8139] Do not recreate alias when original event get saved
- [#8147] Rename booking states to be more meaningful
- [#8149] Set send new notification mail only for free events as default
- [#8151] Allow to edit the booking state on the front by an admin
- [#8152] Lift PHP minimum requirement to 7.4
- [#8153] Drop Internet Explorer support
- [#8157] Counter for multiple events
- [#8168] Add calendar id to CSV export for bookings and tickets
- [#8171] Add Facebook and Twitter meta tags to head
- [#8172] Option to show tickets per instance of series when the whole one is booked
- [#8185] Do not render dt when CF label is hidden
- [#8190] Add refund state for bookings
- [#8187] Add the variable for remaining capacity/remaining in mustache
- [#8189] Event access content should hide all content
- [#8191] Show warning when no booking is possible and action is executed
- [#8192] Remove archive and checkin button from bookings and tickets view
- [#8198] Remove omnipay dependency for better payment provider integration
- [#8200] Remove legacy paypal express driver
- [#8202] Use access token in google plugin to prevent token API call
- [#8203] Remove zoom JS file from installation bundle
- [#8206] Show not active bookings in dashboard
- [#8209] Upgrade Facebook graph API to v8.0
- [#8211] European date format as default
- [#8212] Deliver vendor assets only minified
- [#8214] Replace moment.js with dayjs.js
- [#8218] Update twitter plugin to new API
- [#8219] Do not support -1 as google maps API key
- [#8221] Upgrade meetup API to version 3
- [#8222] Use curl directly to fetch CalDAV servers
- [#8223] Remove the possibility to create bookings in the back end
- [#8224] Location Tags field
- [#8231] Reevaluate the booking status mails
- [#8232] Locations grouping option for locations view
- [#8234] Improve language strings
- [#8238] Show description in list view
- [#8239] Hide fields and tabs by a list parameter
- [#8241] Update existing calendars in google import
Release notes
- [#8375] Spreadsheet plugin with xlsx export
- [#8370] Support my filter in content plugin
- [#8384] Show finished class when event has ended in list views
- [#8386] Proper ticket notification dialog with yes/no buttons
- [#8394] Do not show options button when in back end form
- [#8395] Show zoom fields or recordings when admin
- [#8397] Add create button for mini module
- [#8407] Remove a hrefs (links) in module mini when opening event is disabled
- [#8412] Do not notify editing user when his user group is in notification list
- [#8372] Booking form field ordering is not used when only defined in global params
- [#8377] Facebook events fetch warning on PHP 8
- [#8378] Adapt DPCalendar to Joomla 4 Beta 7 breaking changes
- [#8373] Yearly recurrence rule never runs into a timeout
- [#8374] Offer google search console warnings
- [#8382] Menu Items of different Types : slight differences on Event Form tab
- [#8383] Some zones are missing in the timezone list
- [#8385] Batch edit events color delete all tags from all events
- [#8403] Series panel shows warning on external events
- [#8410] Subform warning when adding an event
- [#8414] The images are not displayed with Ical plugin
- [#8422] Paypal return to merchant deletes booking
