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Hi Schwatz,

It seems I didn't read far enough on the page I quoted from. It explains...

So it seems the answer is that you can unlock the "completely locked" event.

Thanks too for the link on help files.

Hi Dan,

Good thought, especially as I have in mind some classes of users whose entries will need approval. However, my question really comes into the Calendar owner category, and for that you really do need full documentation of the kind Schwartz provides on his site.

However, your suggestion does raise one question, do you know which of these files are current and used. It would appear my installation may have some redundant help files left over from earlier installations.

I am running:
LuxCal calendar: 4.7.2M (mycal)
PHP: 7.1.3 - Show info
Database: MySQL V5.5.60-cll

My help folder includes:

ug-02.htm
ug-02-english.htm
ug-02-english.html
ug-04-english.htm
ug-04-english.html

Part of the problem may be that my installation was made through a package that my web host provides called Softaculous. (Makes installation a breeze but comes with the disadvantage that you never quite know what is going on under the surface.)

That I am aware of. But if you have the "Options" button displayed then it makes the default set of Year, Month, Week and Day buttons redundant. There's no point in confusing people with two ways of accessing the same views.

(Yes, I know you could regard the four View buttons as a one-click alternative to opening the Options dialogue and then selecting your desired View, but I suspect that most casual Viewers of a calendar would prefer the four View buttons and no Options button, because currently there appears no way to remove all the additional, and for them pointless, options from the Options dialogue.)

However, if I remove the "Options" button, then it is gone for all users logged in or not and clearly for those who are calendar Maintainers rather than just viewers, there are some very helpful, even essential, options there.

That too I understand and I expect to take advantage of that facility.

All excellent stuff for complex needs, but not where it is important to keep the interface as simple as possible for naive users who just want to check when the next meeting of their group is to be held and which is the venue for that meeting.

Yes!

I also want the ability to show/not show any of the three columns "Views", "User Groups" and "Categories" on the "Options" dialogue.

That way, as an Administrator, you have the ability to decide whether to use the four View buttons on the Navigation Bar and not show the options Button, for users who only need to view the calendar.

Then, if your calendar is more complex, for those who only need to view the calendar without logging in, you might want to remove the Four View buttons from the navigation bar and replace them with the single "Options" button, but the dialogue that appears will probably only need to display the "Views" and "Categories" columns. (The User Groups column only seems relevant to calendar maintainers and senior ones at that! As a junior maintainer you probably don't need to worry about any user groups, just know that you have permission to add events at a particular venue or for a particular type of meeting.)

Finally, we consider the needs of those who help in maintaining the calendar (and I expect to have lots of them). They might have need to see the "User Groups" as well as the "Categories" column on the Options dialogue as a way of checking what else has been arranged in the organisation before they pick the date and venue for their activity.

I expect very few of my audience to be any other than "Public Access" viewers who will only need simple Year, Month and Day views of all events.

Thanks for the confirmation that clearing the "Options" check box will lose it from all users. Clearly, it offer important options for those with responsibility for maintaining parts of the calendar. I wouldn't want to lose it for all.

I'll make that suggestion!

Oops! I should learn to test properly, like you AND I should learn to click links like everyone else!

Almost invariably, my habit is to is to wheel-click any link, to open it in a new tab. So when I saw the status line said indicated that it would open the link as a new non-embedded copy of the diary AND I then wheel-click the "Elaine Smith" link, sure enough I found exactly what I expected.

But now I see that if I do a conventional left-click the link behaves exactly as you describe and then will be how most operate.