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WPM Editorials - The Under-Used Web Calendar
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An article from The Sentry, Volume 2, Issue 2.
By: Jayson Mauer




The Wisconsin Paintball Militia's Calendar feature is a useful tool for finding and announcing games in the area. The feature has been under-used, often only containing information about meetings. Games had been added almost as afterthoughts a day or two before the event.

All website members are able to post in the feature. By selecting a date and the "Add" button, you will be brought to a data entry screen where you will be able to enter information about the name, time, and location of the event. If you enter an address, the location will be displayed in a Google Maps window when the event is viewed. There are also fields for contact information and applicable fees (if any).

The Calendar feature allows for all members of the WPM to be notified about up-coming games. By supplying every member with this information, our games can only get better, gone are the days when the organizers of a pick-up game needed to spend two hours on the phone to get a game together.

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Addressbook look-up is your friend

Also, for convenience, some of the more commonly inputted locations have been added to the addressbook feature.. so when you're filling out "location" hit the little book-like icon next to it and use the pop-up to chose the field or other locale from the addressbook, and it will "auto-insert" the full address into the entry form for you. Also, all entries in the addressbook have already been varified to work flawlessly with the Google Maps integration.

Daniel Mueller
Minister of Technology

"Never mistake motion for action." -Ernest Hemingway.
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the calendar is at the moment one of the last things I am still waiting on a revised version of for our major site upgrade. Although they are being ssssllllllloooowwww about it, it is good to know however that the people who write it also wrote a large part of the new undercarriage (framework) of the site, so it will be outstandingly awesome when ready.

Daniel Mueller
Minister of Technology

"Never mistake motion for action." -Ernest Hemingway.
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