BosDates Calendar System - Features
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The BosDates event calendar is hands-down the MOST feature packed online calendar on the market today. Listed below are many of the features of the BosDates calendar system:
General
- Unlimited web calendars on your web site for different departments, communities, etc.
- Private web calendars which do not appear within the master calendar.
- Multilingual, with the viewer able to choose the language of their choice.
- Cross platform compatible. Will run on Linux, Unix, Windows, Jaguar and other servers.
- Uses PHP and MySQL, no messy text files to keep track of.
- Search capable.
- Download calendar data in one of the five available methods to include iCal, vCal, XML and PDF.
- Use your existing login usernames/passwords from your forums (vBulletin 3, Joomla, phpBB2, UBBThreads, Invision Power Board, Simple Machines Forum).
- Create RSS feeds of your upcoming events.
- Display events on other pages within your existing web site.
Views
- Seperate yearly, biyearly, quarterly, monthly, four week, three week, biweekly, weekly, daily and custom calendar views for each calendar. You can even choose which view modes you wish to display.
- Three view modes, list style, traditional block style and hybrid style which the view may toggle between.
- Customizable headers and footers per calendar.
- Calendar is "skinable" to better fit with your website design and layout.
- Calendars have independant color schemes which are user configurable or calendars may use our prebuilt themes.
- Events may be color coded, and different text styles and sizes. Even background colors and icons can be used.
- Various day layouts to include SMTWTFS, MTWTFSS, SSMTWTF and MTWTF.
- Mini calendar views of the previous and the next month.
- Each calendar may display its own banner in jpg, gif, png or shockwave formats.
Events
- Assign events to administrator defined categories.
- Events may be color coded, and different text styles and sizes. Even background colors and icons can be used.
- Two view modes, full screen with mini-calendars or in a popup window.
- Download events to one of five formats, to include iCal, vCal, XML and PDF.
- Email notification of events with customized text.
- Private events which only appear on a specific calendar.
- UBB style code may be used in event descriptions with our enhanced editor.
- Attach multiple images to an event, and embed those images into the description text.
- Upload attachments to an event such as an application, spreadsheets, documents, and more.
- Setup recurring events, with 12 different repeating options from daily to yearly.
- "Masked" email which allows users to send you an email without revealing your address.
- Optional overlap protection, so events can not be scheduled at the same time.
- Setup RSVP events to allow visitors to register for an event. Even sell seats for your events using our payment gateways and download a list of attendees.
Visitors
- Visitors can use the myDates feature which is their own private calendar system that only they can see.
- Choose the language, and view mode they prefer.
- myDates calendars can embed the main calendars of the visitors choosing to customize their views.
- Advanced search features to allow visitors to find exactly what they are looking for.
- Signup for events, whether pay-per-seating or RSVP setting.
- Viewers may signup for notification of events on a per calendar basis, or for specific events.
Administration
- Easy menu driven administration with three levels of administration.
- Calendars may be linked together via embedding.
- Admin definable holidays.
- User "levels" to control who can do what to the calendars.
- Backup your database for safe keeping.
- Viewer statistics which displays number of views per month, downloads per month, searches per month and number of views per event.
- Allow guests to add events which must be approved before they are displayed or set the calendar to auto-approve events.
- Set up to five custom inputs for each calendar. Choose from text input, text box, select box, radio button or checkbox.
- Select which items to display on the calendar, and which items to display when hovering over an event.
- Stylesheet editor with built in preview function.
- Clone events feature, which allows you to select an event and choose the date to clone it on.
Current Languages
BosDates is currently available in the following languages:
Danish, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Romanian
Interested in performing a translation for a free license to BosDates, contact us.
Features | Uses | Customization | Demo | Order | Manual