My background is in usability (I have a degree in Human Factors Psychology). One of the things that I was surprised not see in the calendar view was a set of links at the TOP of the calendar for previous/next months. I see them now at the bottom, but as a user looking to go to the next month, and with the bottom of the calendar cut off on my screen, I was confused for a bit when trying to figure out how to get to the next month.

It would be fine to have the links at the bottom, but they need to be at the top as well.

We've always felt that one of the weaker aspects of Event Calendar Pro is its communication capabilities. We’re currently unable to customize email messaging for each unique event. Additionally, our clients are unable to customize the standard confirmation email on their own due to their limited technical capabilities.

It would be extremely advantageous if there were a series of WYSIWYG editors/fields for users to create custom confirmation email messages and custom admin notification messages for each specific event.

Features should also include:

-Ability for the admin to send custom ad-hoc emails using a WYSIWYG editor

-Ability to send the aforementioned emails dependent upon registrant type

-Ability to attach files to confirmation emails

-Ability to automatically update registrants of event changes (already in development I hear)

-SMS notification (already requested)

-Event reminders (already in development I hear)

-Ability to identify a custom recipient for admin notifications

-Ability to manage email template designs

-Email log tracking communication

I purposefully included features that have previously been discussed because I feel it’s important for your communication options to be comprehensive and all inclusive. Reviewing the forums and feature requests, you can see individuals requesting elements of the above. Rather than designing each element individually over time, it may be more advantageous to take into consideration the entire communication strategy to ensure optimal usability.

I am part of a nationwide franchise that has a co-op website for public events. There's a feature that we on on THAT calendar that is INCREDIBLE for recurring events as well as being very flexible for custom date rules.

We can, much like this one, select various rules such as every 1st Wednesday of the month, or every other Tuesday, etc.

However, when we edit an event, date picker calendars will pop up with every day/date the event is scheduled for. We can simply click on a date to remove ONE or MORE of the current scheduled events, AND we can also simply click on additional dates where that event should be scheduled.

I think it's a VERY GENIUS way to adding events to the calendar that have complicated rules. It's MUCH easier than having to fight the rules when you have some events that have small quarks in their schedule... example.. our local chamber of commerce has morning networking meetings on every last Wednesday of the month, except for 2 months, December, and August, they're on a Thursday, and a Tuesday in the 2nd week. IT would be SO easy to set the primary rule, and the open the picker and simply move those two events to a different date.

Currently, the way rules work are very complicated and confusing to many of my visitors, as well as me.

I would love to see the "Show Google Map" and "Show Google Maps Link" checkboxes added under the Default Venue drop down on the Default Content setting page.

I have a site where 99% of the events happen on location so they don't need a map to be shown, but there's 1% which happen off-site so a map is very helpful.

It would be a great optimization of our time to be able to have it so the "Show Google Map" and/or "Show Google Maps Link" could be unchecked by default when creating an event (making this an option for the default content seems to make the most sense; the default Venue can be set this way already so why not the Google Map options as well?)

We have events (events where attendees come to volunteer) that get canceled from time-to-time and we do not want to remove them completely from the calendar so that volunteers who may be planning to attend can easily see it is canceled vs. just gone completely. Right now we edit the title and put "CANCELED" at the beginning. I would rather see a cancellation flag in the event and the calendar shows a line through the event, the word "CANCELED" is automatically added to the title, etc. (perhaps allow users to choose from 2-3 display options in setup for an event marked as canceled even). Most of the ideas I see for cancellation relate to event sign-ups, and we aren't using this feature -- we need something relating to the calendared event itself.