JCal Pro® Feature List

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General features

Nested category support (Joomla 2.5 only)
Multi-category support (Joomla 2.5 only)
Event geolocation (Joomla 2.5 only)
Multiple calendar support (Joomla 1.5 only)
Create custom fields for events on a per-category basis
Event registration with custom fields for event registration form
Personal calendar support
Multilingual support
Fine-grained permissioning using the Joomla ACL (Joomla 2.5 only)
Robust recurring event support (i.e. allowing events to recurr on the "3rd Monday of the month")
Support for recurring event exceptions (exclude a recurring event from appearing on a given date)
AJAX-enabled web 2.0 browsing of the calendar
Event display caching to improve performance
Search-engine friendly URLs
Powerful and flexible content plugin to embed events in articles
RSS event feeds
Mini-calendar mouseover event summaries
W3C valid XHTML (Transitional) and CSS
Support for the native cloakmail plugin to protect e-mail addresses from e-mail harvestors
Recognizes default Joomla! language settings and applies translation to the calendar if available.

Frontend/End User Features

Display or sort events in numerous views
- monthly
- weekly
- daily
- category
- list
- calendar
Submit new events or edit existing events
Moderate events submitted by guests or other users without moderation privileges
Protect event submissions from spambots using reCAPTCHA
Browse events with web 2.0-effects (i.e. switch date range without a page refresh)
Download events as an iCal (.ICS) file for import to other calendars
View events in printer-friendly format
Subscribe to RSS feed of events
XHTML validated output

Create Event Features (frontend and backend)

Specify event title
Specify event description (optional)
Specify event calendar
Specify event category
Specify event start date and time
Specify event duration
- days
- hours
- minutes
- all day
- none (show start date only)
Specify contact info (optional)
Specify email address (optional)
Specify URL (optional)
Specify recurring event parameters (optional)
- daily
- weekly
- monthly
- yearly
- recurrence end date/number of recurrences
Specify event privacy settings
- public (anyone with edit privileges can edit event)
- publicly, read-only (only the event owner can edit)
- private (only the owner can view and edit)

Backend Features

Organize events by category
Manage calendar and category properties
- name
- description
- color for frontend display (category only)
- access permissions (Registered, Author, Editor, etc...)
Create new events
Copy existing events
Delete existing events
Publish/unpublish events
Approve/unapprove events
Filter events by
- calendar
- category
- date range
  - past events
  - upcoming events
  - this week
  - last week
  - next week
  - this month
  - last month
  - next month
- month name
- year
- recurring/non-recurring
- status
  - published
  - unpublished
  - approved
  - unapproved
- text string
Install new themes
Specify the default theme
Import events
- JCal Pro® 1.5
- local iCal (.ICS) file
- URL (remote iCal (.ICS) file)

Administrative Settings

Specify admin email for calendar (used for notifications/moderation)
Auto-capitalize event titles/names
Toggle display of event end times (hide end-time)
Toggle display of top navigation toolbar
Toggle display of iCal icon in top navigation toolbar
Toggle display of Print icon in top navigation toolbar
Toggle the built-in search feature
Toggle the frontend ajax/web 2.0 features
Toggle RSS feeds
Only display new events in RSS feed
Control event display for all views
- toggle all views (i.e. disable any view as desired: monthly, flat/list, weekly, daily, category)
- toggle display of event time
- specify length of title (in characters; monthly, weekly, daily and category view)
- specify length of description (in characters; flat/list view)
- toggle display of overlapping recurrences
- toggle display of week numbers (monthly only)
- hide empty categories (category only)
Toggle reCAPTCHA anti-spam (frontend)
Allow reCAPTCHA bypass based on usergroup (Registered, Author, Editor, etc...)
Toggle iCal export
Moderate event submission, editing, moderation and deletion based on usergroup (Registered, Author, Editor, etc...)
Toggle notifications when submitted events require event moderation
Display time in 12- or 24-hour format
Specify the width of the main calendar/display table (% or pixels)
Select wether weeks start on Sunday or Monday
Toggle the display of past events
Toggle the display of recurring events
Toggle display of multi-day events between:
- show entire date range
- show start and end dates only
- show start date only
Prevent deletion of child events (repeat instances of a recurring event) when deleting the parental/original event occurrence