Can you recommend a calendar application that includes customizable forms?
I personally like iCal applications and would be very interested in learning what's available for that platform.
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Philip S
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Depends how techie you want to get. Some assumptions:
1) You don't want to get techie
2) You want to publish the calendar online somewhere
3) You're running a mac (guess based on the iCal ref)
4) The forms are really so you can let other people put dates in, but you can control what they put in (to a degree), and you need to MANUALLY view/vet their entry pre posting.
Desktop: iCalMaker (mmisoftware) will rip vCal, tab and comma delimited text into and out of iCal format. I use it to rip Windows Outlook into iCal and back again in corporate settings.
With this, the scruffy, easy way is: Give them any form you like on the web, but use a form service (I'd recommend jotform for this). You'll get an email every time there is a submission, you log in and download an excel version of the submission. Cut and paste the data into your 'I made this earlier 'calendar maker'' excel sheet - which does this:
Has a worksheet you paste into with text calculations that immediately convert the pasted submission fields to be text strings that make sense for iCalMaker (like put the dates and times in format, name the fields, put them in the right order, etc.)
Has a linked worksheet you export from that presents the resultant modified data only, producing a clean tab delimited file.
Export from here, then pull into iCalMaker, check, export on your mac as iCal into a particular named calendar.
Publish your (desktop) iCal calendar online so people can subscribe to it (lots of ways to do this, assume you know, ask again if you don't).
Apart from a bit of excel (reading between the lines I feel that is well within your grasp) there isn't much difficulty here.
Alternatively - use jotform as above, but then manually put the details into a free online calendar you can embed on your site and offer as a feed / subscription for iCal.
I'd recommend 30boxes, because you can use natural language to put basic entries in, or even a quick email / cut and paste while you are reading the email from jotform (Subject line carries the date and title, Body for notes).
Have fun.
Philip
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Clarification added October 4, 2007:
By the way, if you use jotform - when someone rings up with an event you can quickly send an email link to the hosted form for them to fill out, which saves your transcription and possible error, and you don't even need to get permission to post the form on your oorganisation's website.
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iLife from Apple or
Airset.com is a web based calendar application that can be used by a group.
