1. when a viewer clicks on a date they should get the events rather than a failed attempt to edit

Good suggestion, we'll look into it.

2. I found I could not use the "Location" feature because the search/filters ignore it

Good point - this will be added eventually

3. RSS feed

This already exists, though there isn't an obvious link for it. Try something like:

Oh this is so close to awesome. I can't get it to apply a filter and do the RSS thing. I want to RSS just my UK tournaments, not the others, so I tried:

http://freecal.brownbearsw.com/BritFoos?;FilterCategories=Location-UK/NI;Op=RSS

but it shows everything....any ideas??

Hmm..it seems to show the first 20 entries and ignore the filter.... and seems to be sorted by the order I entered them rather than by date...

The RSS feed should give you the all entries for the next 30 days, sorted by date. What are you using to view the RSS? If you look at the raw XML, you'll see the entries are sorted by date there, could be your reader/displayer isn't showing them in the right order. For filtering, there's currrently no way to filter based on categories, but that's a good idea, we'll add that.

Wow. Great feedback, thanks. You're right. I was using Google sidebar which apparently imposes an insane ordering. First, all the events in May in reverse order, and then all the events in April in reverse order.

Hmm, we'll add another feed format that it will hopefully understand better. Currently it's only available in RSS 1.0

update: April 13 - you can now use differnt formats, including Atom, RSS 0.9, 0.91, 1.0, 2.0. Use the "Format" param, e.g.

To be useful for my purpose (showing foosball tournements), we would need to see events for a much longer period than 30 days (typically 6 months),

and you can do this now too, using the "Days" parameter, to specify number of days in advance to get events for (defaults to 30) e.g.

and to be able to filter on location/category (some people only want to see UK tournies, some want to see only tournies played on a certain table type).

There will eventually be more options like these for controlling what's in the feed; thanks for the feedback!

This is a great product. Thanks. Dave.

I'm now using the Fire Fox Sage reader. And Days= is great. For reasons I do not understand, I find that only format RSS 2.0 provides the desired chronological ordering. But this is a great step forward! I used: http://freecal.brownbearsw.com/BritFoos?;Op=RSS;Format=2.0;Days=180

However, when I click on one event in the Sage reader, I expect to see the details for just that specific event. The URL looks good, becoming, eg: http://freecal.brownbearsw.com/BritFoos?Date=2006-04-23;EventID=306036

..but despite the specific date/event I see the entire calendar, not the details for the event. What did I do wrong?

Nothing you did; we need to change the link in the RSS to display just that event. Something like http://freecal.brownbearsw.com/BritFoos?Date=2006-04-23;ID=306036;Op=PopupWindow, though that doesn't look too good in a full-size window; perhaps http://freecal.brownbearsw.com/BritFoos?Date=2006-04-23;Amount=Day ?

Do you think Filter Categories with RSS is doable? Thanks again...what great work..../Dave

Yes, that will happen eventually. :-)

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