Zap Calendar is an advanced, native Joomla calendar featuring AJAX, RSS and full iCalendar support. Here is a summary of the features of Zap Calendar:
Event Management
- Meeting and all day events
- Repeating events
- Confirmed, tentative and cancelled event status types
- Multiple categories per event supported
- Location text or link to location item
- Front end add / edit / delete events
- Link events to articles (article plugin)
- Display map location of event with driving directions (Google Maps plugin)
- Custom field support (more info plugin)
- Comment on events (comment plugins)
- RSVP to events, send reminder e-mail when event approaches (RSVP plugin)
- Synchronize Outlook, Google Calendar, and other iCalendar events into the calendar (ical subscribe plugin)
Calendar Management
- Multiple calendars per site
- Multiple calendars per page (calendar module)
- Personal calendars
- Display yearly, monthly, weekly or daily calendar.
- Display upcoming events (calendar module)
- RSS feed
- AJAX enabled calendar display
- Display mini month with link to full calendar (calendar module)
- Display event list
- Toggle display of events using category controller (category module and plugin)
- Spanning categories across multiple calendars
- Flat and tree based category layouts
- Move groups of categories from one category tree branch to another
- Theme support
- Display / hide event categories on a calendar
- iCalendar export, subscribe
- Share event to social media sites
- Facebook "Like" button (via Facebook plugin)
- Display map of the month's event, show nearby events, display driving directions to event (Google Maps plugin)
Location Management
- Support for import and export of locations as defined in Internet draft "draft-norris-ical-venue-01"
- Show events by location
- Automatic linking of events to locations with same title when importing or synchronizing events (synchronizing events via ical subscribe plugin)
- Support for display of event location by either location text or location item (Google Maps plugin)
Repeating Events
- Repeat daily by 1 or more days (i.e. every day, every other day)
- Repeat weekly or multiple weeks by day of the week (i.e. every week on Wednesday)
- Repeat monthly or multiple months by specific date (i.e 25th of the month)
- Repeat monthly or multiple months by day (i.e. 3rd Tuesday, last Friday of the month)
- Repeat yearly or multiple years by day (i.e. election day is the first Tuesday in November every other year)
- Repeat yearly or multiple years by specific date (i.e. December 25)
- Repeat by # of occurances, up to a specific date, or repeat forever
- Multiple repeat selections possible (i.e. Mondays and Wednesdays, 1st and 15th of the month, 1st and 3rd Tuesdays)
- Delete or modify individual events within a repeating event series.
Import/Export
- iCalendar import from either a file or URL, multiple categories per event supported
- Automatic category creation when new categories are found during import
- CSV import from a file
- Location import and export support for VVENUE data as defined by the internet draft "draft-norris-ical-venue-01"
- Assigning locations to events with the same location title
- Synchronizing of external callendars like Google and Outlook, allowing events from foreign calendars to be displayed, supports deleting of events from foreign calendars (ical subscribe plugin)
iCalendar Support
- Support for iCalendar repeating events
- Support for importing of iCalendar data via file or URL
- Location import and export support for VVENUE data as defined by the internet draft "draft-norris-ical-venue-01"
- iCalendar export for calendars and individual events from the front end.
- iCalendar subscription support for the front end, support for both PC (http://) and Mac (webcal://) URL's.
- Synchronizing of external callendars like Google and Outlook, allowing events from foreign calendars to be displayed, supports deleting of events from foreign calendars (ical subscribe plugin)
Add-Ons
- Zap Calendar (All versions) - module to display calendars within a module
- Category Controller (All versions) - module to display category control to toggle the display of categories within the calendar
- My RSVP (Pro version only) - module to display RSVP's creating using the My RSVP plugin
- Quick Events (All versions) - administrator module to quickly add events anywhere in the back-end
- Recent Comments (Pro version only) - Module to show comments recently posted using the comment plugin
- AcyMailing (Pro version only) - Plugin to add Zap Calendar events easily to an AcyMailing newsletter.
- Comment (Pro version only) - Plugin to post comments on events, creating a discussion thread for each event
- Community Builder (Pro version only) - Plugin to utilize CB avatars and user profiles
- Face Book Like (Standard and Pro versions) - Show a Facebook "Like" button on your events
- Google Maps (Standard and Pro versions) - Plugin to display the map location of an event in the monthly, weekly, daily and event pages.
- iCal Sync (Pro version only) - Plugin to synchronize iCalendar compliant external calendars with Zap Calendar.
- JomSocial (Pro version only) - Plugin to utilize JomSocial avatars and user profiles
- Month Header (Standard and Pro versions) - Plugin to display a horizontal bar of months at the top of the monthly calendar
- Moon Phase (All versions) - Plugin to display phases of the moon on the calendar
- More Info (Standard and Pro versions) - Plugin to provide adding custom fields to the event
- Password (Standard and Pro versions) - Plugin to provide a simple method of authorizing front-end event editing
- Photo Header (Standard and Pro versions) - Plugin to display a different phot each month at the top of the calendar
- Recaptcha (Standard and Pro versions) - Plugin to add captcha support for website guests when adding new events or posting comments
- RSVP (Pro version only) - Plugin to allow website visitors to attend events and get notified when event details change
- Search (All versions) - Plugin to provide searching for Zap Calendar events using Joomla's search engine
- Zap Article (Standard and Pro versions) - Plugin to link articles to events
- Zap Controller (All versions) - Plugin to display category control to toggle the display of categories within the calendar
- Z Weather (Standard and Pro versions) - Plugin to display weather information directly on the calendar using the Z Weather component
Note: Not all add-ons are available yet for version 4 of Zap Calendar. We are working on migrating them to the latest Zap Calendar release.