[Plugin: Ajax Event Calendar] Error after update (v0.9.8.1)

I’m still discovering the pitfalls of the WordPress plugin upgrade process – so if you can’t access the calendar settings page after upgrade deactivate and reactivate the plugin and try again. If it doesn’t work, please let me know.

Thanks,
Eran

Sorry. I should have been more clear. This happens on the page to add (and edit) events: /wp-admin/admin.php?page=ajax-event-calendar.php … It is not present on the Categories, Activity Report, or Settings page.

Everything still loads and seems to function okay, but that error code goes across the top of the page.

Deactivating and reactivating the plugin did not resolve.

Thanks.

Ok, I have a feeling it’s a similar problem, with a slightly different solution.

Go to the settings page, and press Save Changes. Then try again.

Let me know if that does it.

Thanks,
Eran

That did resolve it. Thanks!

Just as a side note… I let it go this weekend when I had to spend an extra 3 hours re-entering recurring events for the rest of the year when it should have taken 5 minutes… because of how good the plugin looks and because of your excellent support. But I’m not very thrilled that I had to spend an extra 20 minutes this morning digging through the database trying to figure out how to remove the spam event that the update posted on my client’s calendar. :/

I’m glad that solved the issue.

I’m sorry the test event used to confirm successful installation/upgrade of the plugin gave you such grief this morning. As calendar administrator you should be able to delete the event in seconds, directly via the interface. If not please let me know, as that would be a bug.

Thank you for the candid feedback.
Eran

No, the event did not appear in the interface… which is why I had to go into the SQL database to delete it. Not a huge deal.. just wasn’t thrilled. I understand that you have to promote your calendar, but I thought intentionally you made it where it couldn’t be removed from the interface. Didn’t realize it was a bug.

In thinking about this further, it’s absence from the interface was the result of plugin’s failure to completely upgrade permission settings.
You see, this upgrade introduced new capabilities which accommodates more flexible calendar permissions.

If you install the Capability Manager plugin, you can assign any user with these capabilities:

aec_add_events: allows a user to add, edit and delete their own calendar events
aec_manage_events: allows a user to add, edit and delete all calendar events
aec_manage_calendar: allows a user to modify calendar settings, control which event fields to display and require, modify categories, and view the activity report

As part of the upgrade process the administrator is assigned all these capabilities, but the upgrade process did not reinitialize the settings (and I need to figure out why) – so as an admin you didn’t see the event until you restarted the plugin and re-saved the settings.

In other words. If you run this update on another client site, first try restarting the plugin and re-saving the settings. If you still don’t see the installation event in the interface, then it represents an additional bug.

Whew!

Hope that clears the air,
Eran

Makes perfect sense. Thanks for the detailed explanation Eran.

Just to chime in that I had the exact same issue, and deactivating & reactivating the plugin, and then going to the plugin’s Settings page and saving fixed everything up. Thanks!

Hola yo tengo un problema, no puedo guardar los eventos, tengo una base de datos en sql server 2008 y no funciona este plugin y estoy usando al version 3.1 de wordpress me podrian ayudar

Hi i have a issue, i can’t save the events, i have a sql server 2008 database and doesn’t work this plugin on wordpress 3.1 sql server, sonmebody help me T.T

WordPress is natively made to work with MySQL and so you’re going to have a hard time finding any database-driven plugins for WordPress that don’t use the WordPress API to manage database functionality, as I have done.

Given this significant disadvantage, you may want to reconsider your blogging platform.

Eran

Your calendary is nice, and only i need to leave it working on my web with sql server, but I’m tryin modify the conections but, I’ve not made nothing.

I don’t understand what you are stating – but I will not be able to help you modify this plugin to make it work with MSSQL.

Eran