Hi Claire,

This is what I've found in the marketplace -

1. Calendar - developed byconcrete5
A calendar that deeply integrates with concrete5. New pages are automatically made for each event, calendars can be cross referenced and aggrigated, several front end interfaces including Month View, Agenda, 5 Week and List. Features

Add multiple calendars to your site, and events beneath them.
Any calendar can display events from all calendars on the site.
Easily add events in the context of a calendar.
Calendar display features four modes: standard month view, agenda view (which lists upcoming events and their summaries in a progressively loaded list), next five weeks, and full list.
Every event is an individual page, which means concrete5 blocks can be attached to it, it can be moved through the dashboard, etc... Aliased events will work under multiple calendars.
Events can be marked as featured, and a calendar can be set to show only featured events.
SOURCE: http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/calendar/...


2. Items Calendar - developed byScottC

Items calendar is the easiest way manage calendars on your concrete5 website.

Items calendar was designed to help people share timely data on a calendar as quickly as possible, and was designed for the following use cases in mind:

- Press releases (put all press releases on a calendar using a page-type filter)
- Blog Posts(put all blog posts on a calendar using a page-type filter, if you use multiple add-ons for this, simply add an additional page-type rule),
- New Products (page-type filter)
- Events (created or page-type based)
- News (created or page-type based, or pages under another page)
- Meetings(created item) - Multiple Day items/events (created item)
- Recurring Multiple Day items/events (created item)
- Sports Scores/Practice Schedules (created item optionally linked to page)
- Hair Salon Availability (created item)
- Vacation Rental availability Calendar(created item)
- Project Management schedules(created item linked to page) etc etc etc

In addition to all the page-based features you are used to in Concrete5, items calendar introduces the concept of calendar items.

In items calendar, you can create an item to display on the calendar, optionally pairing it with a page on the site or a link to an external page. You can set recurring day intervals, the amount of times to additionally show the item, and if you have an external link or a page associated, it will link to either one directly from the calendar.

Calendar Items also have something called Internal notes, which are useful for pairing a certain item with any bit of data that is only available in the dashboard. Calendar items can also be selected to display on any calendar that exists with a checkbox. All calendars can optionally show event details in a lightbox, or directly link to the page. All Calendars also have the ability to provide rss feeds for all items on the calendar, and provide a daily, weekly or monthly view. Calendars also provide iCal feeds.

For situations where the recurring amounts don’t pair exactly (every 3rd Tuesday of the Month, the 2nd Monday of every quarter) or the first day of every month, item calendar has the ability for you to “copy” items which allows you to simply copy an item and change the start and end date to match.

Calendar items is dashboard driven, so all your dashboard permissions mesh seamlessly with the calendar, and since it is in the dashboard it makes a great value add for those creating sites for clients. Since calendar items is javascript based, visitors don’t have to wait for page refreshes to view the next month’s data.

Calendar items also provides several collection attributes which are used for pages that you assign as a filter for any or all items calendar: Start/End, exclude from Item Calendar, All Day item, recurring count, and recurring day interval (multiple allowed).

Calendars can have colors schemes set on a block level, a dashboard setting color level, or you can give each event its own color and text color. 5 color templates are provided.

You can easily create calendar themes using jQuery themeroller, a tutorial will be posted soon outlining the details.

Its creator, ScottC has been working with concrete5 since pretty much the beginning and is a full-time freelancer, so you are guaranteed great support!, though you probably won't need it.

DEMO:http://calendar.honopu.com/

SOURCE:http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/items-calendar/...



3. ProEvents - developed by ChadStrat

ProEvents is a fully integrated Event and Calendar package for Concrete5. Most importantly...simple. Events are pages. simple as that. ProEvents utilizes Concrete5's powerful attributes system to give you total flexibility and control. All this while providing your clients with a sleek, easy to use dashboard interface.

recurring dates & date sets by day, week, or month
date sets, or blocks of dates created in one event.
all day events
copy events.
AJAX full calendar, mini AJAX calendar, week calendar, list view, Agenda view, and archive/past dates view.
Special custom views for the standard page_list block, in addition to several event_list block views.
Assign the "event_manager" user attribute to any user, and allow front end event creation for that user.
Super clean main C5 navigation menu added for front-end posting of events
iCal link on Calendars, and RSS feed on events list
Filter by multiple categories.
category coloring.
automatic google map link
pagination
dashboard preview
dashboard settings with full color options
Exclude specific dates from large recurring sets.
unlimited event "Sections"
use any page type
set your default page type for new events
new add holidays to jQuery Calendar
new sinvite others button with on/off global setting

Demo ProEvents athttp://demo.chadstrat.com
user: demo
pass: 123456

SOURCE:http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/proevents/...



4. SimpleEventCal - developed byChadStrat

Simple Event Cal expands the popular SimpleEvents package with a robust large calendar view, and small front page square calendar view.

Java Script Hover list of events
two template views - large and small
easy to understand CSS for coloring and styling
handles Simple Events recurring events
show one category from your events lists, or all events
color highlights all day events
links to your Simple Events items
iCal link to your events
THIS ADDON REQUIRES PRIOR INSTALATION OF SIMPLE EVENT PACKAGE

SOURCE:http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/simpleeventcal/...



4.1. Simple Event - developed byChadStrat

Simple Event Package is a click and add event content block that includes an event's list block as well. Simple Event now offers iCal export link, WYSIWYG editor, European time, and a customizable empty event field.

The events list block includes two templates, a small front page list, and an events overview page.

recurring dates by day, week, month
event duration periods
all day events
european time format
iCal link option
no events notice option
sort Ascending or Descending
pagination option
WYSIWYG content
CSS layout
automatic google map link
Check out the video:

http://www.vimeo.com/7092047

DEMO:http://stratisdesign.com/demo/index.php/event/...
SOURCE:http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/simple-event/...

Hope that helps.

Hi, thanks for this, to be honest all of those features don't really mean much to me.

As long as my customers can see when we are running courses, and can then click on it, to possibly then book, then that is all i need - would this calendar enable me/them to do this?

Speak soon

cheers

Claire

Hi Claire,

Yes, they'll definitely get the job done. Some of them have demo's that you can play around with... others have some screenshots to show you how they'd look and work.

Check out the screenshots and demo's by clicking on the 'camera' icon and the demo's by clicking on the 'Screen' icon. You'll find them under the price/purchase buttons on each 'Source' page.

Ok Cool , right i might just go ahead and get it bought!! I hope it;s easy to set up! Thanks for all your help!