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Super! Dann ist das Thema aus meiner Sicht “gel?st” – es ist ja kein Fehler in dem Sinne, sondern mehr ein “Feature Request”. Da? so eine Erweiterung bei privater Entwicklung in der Freizeit auch den einen oder anderen Tag dauern kann, ist ja nur verst?ndlich ??

Danke nochmal für die tolle Arbeit!

Thanks a million – my contact form 7 also just conked out on that one – although in my case, it was an underscore (_) character. So basically any character suitable to not being selected when multi-clicking keys may trigger this. My recommendation is to copy the keys by clicking on the first character and then dragging the mouse to the last character to make sure you copy all the characters of the key…

I’ll have to agree with nicmare. You can’t play back a tune unless you recorded it before. Don’t blame anyone else for your own fault.

Upgraded following your proposed procedure => all’s well, many thanks. To quote from the bottom of the update instruction: “stop this madness of having two free versions”: yes, please. I’m looking forward to less confusion.

Thanks again!

Hi, Robert,

thanks for the heads-up – I just upgraded, everything went smooth, did a quick check and…

I’m impressed. That’s almost exactly what I was looking for, thank you so much! Especially I love the “Show all Icons” link in the Marker Editor: that’s really useful if you just want to select a different Icon but leave the rest of the settings alone. In fact I like this link so much that’d want it for the other sections, too, because that would come *very* close to fitting my taste of a perfect editor: you can expand (and collapse, I’ missing that link for the icons-section, too ;-)) each section individually and make only those changes you need – if there was a checkbox for each (advanced) settings block “make these settings default” There would be no more room for improvements…

just kidding ?? Of course there’s always room for change, only if the change is an improvement is left to discussion. So take my input as my personal wish list, if you think my suggestions are worth considering I’d be very happy – but if you think they’re way over the top, that’s just fine with me as well ??

Thnaks again for the good – and quick(!!!) – work, it’s very much appreciated!

Kind regards,

Henning

Hi, Richard,

short follow-up: thanks for the tip on all-in-one-event-calendar/app/model/class-ai1ec-settings.php (lines 423-427). I modified the lines as follows;

'posterboard' => __( 'Pinwand', AI1EC_PLUGIN_NAME ),
'month' => __( 'Monat', AI1EC_PLUGIN_NAME ),
'week' => __( 'Woche', AI1EC_PLUGIN_NAME ),
'oneday' => __( 'Tag', AI1EC_PLUGIN_NAME ),
'agenda' => __( 'Agenda', AI1EC_PLUGIN_NAME ),

So anyone with the same problem: just change the strings in those lines to your language and you’re good to go.

I also found the problem with the “View Calendar” button in the widget: in the german .po file the key was botched: I compared the entry to the .pot file and found there were some extra characters in the string which prohibited the match. After removing the extra characters from the key (and generating the .mo file again) the string is now recognized and I see the german caption.

I’ll leave the backend alone for now, that is of no importance to me. I’ve sent the updated .po and .mo files to [email protected] – maybe you can use them.

Thanks again for your support,

Henning

Hi, Richard,

thanks for the tips, I’ll have a look into it as soon as I can. If I find a solution, I’ll drop you a line.

Thanks again & kind regards,

Henning

Just one quick word of caution on greying out: greying out is also often used when fields are disabled – this could possibly be misleading. Users should not have the impression that a field is disabled (that’s why I prefer hiding/showing).

Kind regards,

Henning

Hi, Robert,

I’m using version 2.9.2 of the plugin on version 3.4.2 of WordPress. To make things clear: the UI’s fine as it is – the problem is that there are very many options, many of which inexperienced users (like me) won’t grasp right away. I just went through the options again and modified a few of them because after using the plugin for some time, I get a feeling for what the options do and what I really need.

Like with all powerful tools it probably provides far more options than your average Joe User will ever need. Take Microsoft Office for example: the majority of the users will use only a fraction of the possibilities that the tool offers.

A possible solution might be to distinguish between “basic” and “advanced” features. With ease of use in mind I’d think that most of the users of the plugin will want to create a map, put a handful of markers on them and pretty much don’t care about the rest. So maybe it would be a good idea to offer a “basic” or “reduced” UI with only the most important controls and an”advanced” or “expert” mode with all the controls visible – it’d be perfect if you could toggle this with a click on a button and set your preference in the settings.

My favourite solution would be that could could toggle each field seperately in the settings for “user defined UI” and on the layer- and marker-editor have an option to toggle between “user defined” and “display all controls” – a third (non-customizable) basic view might also be an option.

The basic view for a layer could – for my taste – use only the fields “name”, “layer center”, and the preview image. All other options could be hidden behinde a “expand to see more options” link. For a marker editor, I’d chuck everything behind the “more options” link except “marker name”, “add to layer” (quick side-question: can a marker be added to more than one layer? Might be useful…?), “coordinates”, preview image and “popup-text”.

There are several strategies to achieve that, you could, for example, display the current setting (in many cases the default value) as a static text and display a “change” button or link. This has the advantage that you visibly reduce the number of controls by a great deal while still providing access to everything. A perfect application for this approach would be the Icons list: it totally overwhelms me each time I edit a marker – and I end up using the default pin all the time. So show the default marker (let the user change it if he fancies that) and add a “more pins…” link and pop up the whole list only on clicking that link – that’d be 177 radiobuttons less on the main page.

Another approach could be that you hide the “advanced” options altogether behind a “show more…” link. Pro: maybe easier to implement: con: you can only choose between all or nothing. The most user friendly way would be to allow the user to choose exactly which fields he wants to see in his editors. UI design is somewhere halfway between science and art. There are basic guidelines which have proven useful (like the “ease of use” paradigm), but it also has much to do with personal taste and preference. It’s no easy task and I don’t envy you doing it, however I *very* much appreciate your work.

As for the bulk import: I’m glad to hear it’s in the queue because I think that might be a feature useful to some people. As far as the geotag data from images is concerned: I think I read somewhere, that some wordpress upload methods might strip EXIF data from uploaded pictures – don’t know if that’s really true but might be something to check early. Otherwise I think the idea of using galleries is probably the best one: let the user put all images he wants to put on a map in one gallery, then simply check all of the images for geotag (and maybe time (for KML animation)) information. If more images are added to the gallery later, you can always re-check. You could even go as far as determining the map’s initial dimensions from the imported data – if the user wants to change it later he can always do that. But that’s only my wish list – let me repeat from the beginning: I’m very happy with the plugin as it is right now. Thank you very much for the good work!

Kind regards,

Henning

Hi,

sorry to tailgate this thread, but I have a few minor problems with the german translation as well. I was able to correct a few glitches in the .po and .mo files myself, however, some of the translations won’t show up (or don’t exist). I can live with that in the backend, however, in the frontend it may confuse users. I have prepared a screenshot at https://www.diigo.com/item/image/3d6d4/07xp which shows the three problems in the frontend:

• The view selector
• The “Post Your Event Button” (not a real problem, that’s for contributors only, they can deal with that)
• The “View Claendar” Button

Link to see the page in action: https://eckradio.de/ppbv/termine/
And yes, the translations are in the .po and .mo files. Any hints how I can solve that?

Thanks a lot in advance & kind regards

Henning Halfpap

Hi Dragan,

the page is live – or at least almost. The only major step left to do is put it on its target domain which ist https://www.piratenpartei-bad-vilbel.de/ – this currently still redirects to https://eckradio.de/ppbv/ where I’m developing it.

Anyway, after talking to the theme developer he told me he’ll have a look into it – however it might take some time. I’ll give you an update as soon as I find out new details.

Kind regards,

Henning

Hi, Dragan,

you’re right! I just switched to the default twentyeleven theme for a test and voilà: the plugin displays correct: https://awesomescreenshot.com/04flodkbf So my assumption was right, the theme’s CSS seems to be botched. Unfortunately I’m not *that* CSS expert – I was hoping you’d be able to give me some pointers on what to look at… nevermind, I’m going to ask the theme guys, too.

Anyway, thanks for the idea of switching the theme (why didn’t I think of that in the first place?) and for the tip on the cool screenshot-tool for firefox ??

Kind regards,

Henning