No checkboxes next to locations

Hey all,

With the 2.0 upgrade I can't see any checkboxes to the left of each location title as displayed in the documentation. I tested in IE8 and Chrome. Without the checkboxes I can't see all events by location.

Thoughts?

Regards,

Brian

Welcome to the forum!

If you are a stake administrator, you need to re-enable the locations as described here. If you are not, you need to request that a stake administrator (usually a Stake Clerk) re-enable the locations.

Thanks and thanks for the quick reply. I'm a stake admin and had previously re-enabled the locations by setting the time zone for each and then saving the change. Wondering if it would just take time for the changes to commit, I checked the calendar again a few minutes ago for the checkboxes but they're still not there. Is there something other than setting the time zone that I need to do?

I see the same thing. I just noticed that I do see the checkboxes when I go into the "Week" view instead of "Month". I don't know if this is a bug, or by design.

scottholmes wrote:I see the same thing. I just noticed that I do see the checkboxes when I go into the "Week" view instead of "Month". I don't know if this is a bug, or by design.

It is by design. Your analysis is spot-on, as the checkboxes do indeed appear by the locations in the Week view, but not in the Month view. This issue was raised during the beta test for Calendar v2, and we were told by a developer that the checkboxes are not designed to appear in the Month view.

I know I should just get over this and move on...but this is the a big drawback to the v2 calendar. I use the filter by location so much as a stake building scheduler. I know ward leaders use it in month view too. Week view filter is so much more difficult to use, especially since the event names and descriptions don't wrap in the entry box. I have to tool tip over to see the event descriptions.

Devs...PLEASE consider bringing back the filter by location on the month view! I know it may be difficult to implement, but it was a great feature that is now gone. (ok...feel better because I said it one more time!)

Thanks for the clarification but I'm with dshepher -- the loss of filter by location in the month view is very inconvenient. Also, the member docs should probably be updated to reflect this change if it's not going to be reversed in the near term.

If we are tallying votes...mine goes with dshepher. While this new calendar has many wonderful options; there are ways to work around proper channels; so administrators need to be able to see those who are putting items on the calendar at "other locations" and "no locations" in order to get their event scheduled. In order to prevent those deviations from protocol, we have set up our calendars to confirm proper authorization for location use. Without the option to filter by location; there are duplicate entries on the calendar at all times. It gets very confusing.

It seems that they should hide the locations options or something in the "Month" view as they don't function. It's confusing. At the very minimum, the documentation should make this more clear as I didn't see it there and wasn't sure what was going on at first.

I'm very appreciative of all the hard work that has gone into this. I don't want pointing out the places where I see some potential for improvement to come across as negativity.

2gerolyn wrote:Without the option to filter by location; there are duplicate entries on the calendar at all times. It gets very confusing.

But please remember that you do have the option to filter by location -- it's just that it is now only available in the week view. I certainly wish it were also available in Month view, but I wouldn't use the phrase "without the option to filter by location" -- that seems a bit strong.

scottholmes wrote:It seems that they should hide the locations options or something in the "Month" view as they don't function.

I would note that the locations are still useful in Month view, so I don't like the idea of hiding them:

• they serve as a legend to tell you which color location icons correspond to which locations
• they give you a dropdown that lets you contact the building scheduler, edit the location (if you have permissions to do so), or change the color associated with the location.

scottholmes wrote:It seems that they should hide the locations options or something in the "Month" view as they don't function.

The problem with hiding the locations pane here is that it also functions as a legend for the little building icons on events.

2gerolyn wrote:If we are tallying votes...

For what it's worth, we are tallying votes. It just may be a few months before it makes it into a release.

jdcr256 wrote:For what it's worth, we are tallying votes.

I'll add my vote to bring the ability back, then.

jdcr256 wrote:For what it's worth, we are tallying votes.

I am going to put something in the ward bulletin this week to encourage members to log into tech.lds.org and vote for location filtering on month view!

Lot of hard work in v2...thanks for all the information and updates.

I'm a stake admin and am solidly in dshepher's camp.

I vote for it's return to the month view!

I agree that the filter locations in month view should be brought back.

KenRichins wrote:I vote for it's return to the month view!

I'm a stake administrator / building scheduler and I would also vote to enable the "month view".

lesleyann wrote:I am a bldg schdlr; in v1 there were checkboxes next to each resource that you clicked on when reserving that resouce (room etc) in the bldg when scheduling an event; in v2 no checkboxes exist so no resources can be reserved at the time of scheduling. can you help with this please?

It looks like you haven't read the earlier posts on this thread. The checkboxes still exist in v2; it's just that they only exist in Week view. The Month view has indeed lost the capability for selecting locations with checkboxes. However, you can do everything in Week view that you can do in Month view, so you haven't fundamentally lost that ability. I will certainly agree, however, that some operations become significantly more tedious when you have to wade through many weeks to gather the information that used to be available by looking at a month or two.

Unfortunately there are two "no checkbox for resources" issues. This thread seems mix both.

The first is there's no check boxes for selecting resources when creating/editing an event. (It uses highlight instead).

Then there's no checkboxes for viewing the calender by resource (it's only in week view).

Same here.... please add my vote to bring back this functionality!

jdcr256 wrote:For what it's worth, we are tallying votes...

What else are you tallying? We all have opinions and we'll gladly give them!

I definitely NEED it to be in MONTH VIEW!!!!! I am a building scheduler and it just takes way too much time to figure out what is going on in my buildings week to week. PLEASE MAKE THEM VIEWABLE BY MONTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT IS MY VOTE BUT DOES IT EVEN COUNT? I hope so. : )