Conference Timeline and Information

Software Support
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Hello;

I would like to know how to get a 2014 event scheduler in OCS? When I installed last year the OCS in our website the event time schedule is set to 2016 the year that install in our conference. I have archive file of our conference we want to put this in online for transparency purposes.

May I know how to set?

2

Hi @Darryl_Nuyda,

Is the problem that the date dropdowns in the scheduler don’t go back that far? (Also, please include your OCS version in your posts.)

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

3

Here is the OCS version;

This conference uses Open Conference Systems 2.3.5.0, which is open source conference management software developed, supported, and freely distributed by the Public Knowledge Project under the GNU General Public License.

4

Hi @Darryl_Nuyda,

Is the problem that the date dropdowns in the scheduler don’t go back that far?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

5

Thanks alec;

for the response; for now website is shutting down due the hacker problem, and we migrate to other server.

6

Hi @Darryl_Nuyda,

Can you provide some details on the hacker problem you mention?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

7

Hi Alec;

It’s a shared hosting and the site protection problem actually.

-regards

8

Hi @Darryl_Nuyda,

OK, thanks for following up!

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

9

Hello. Does anyone know if it is possible to insert the option of old dates to include previous conferences?

10

Hi @marcela.reinhardt,

You would need to modify the code slightly – see classes/manager/form/TimelineForm.inc.php:

list($earliestDate, $latestDate) = $this->getOutsideDates($schedConf);
$templateMgr->assign('firstYear', strftime('%Y', $earliestDate));
$templateMgr->assign('lastYear', strftime('%Y', $latestDate));

You should be able to put the earliest year you want in place of $earliestDate in the middle line.

However, note that we aren’t currently maintaining OCS, in case you’re starting a new project with it.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

11

Thanks for listening.
Is there any suggestion for another platform?

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Hi @marcela.reinhardt,

I’m afraid not – there are a lot of conference tools available, each with a different feature set, so it’s hard to recommend a single replacement for OCS.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team