Bought and tested a whole day now. XenAtendo 2 PRO looks really good and some of the features (distance search, keywords, filtering...) are unique, I think. For my needs this is for sure the best calendar add-on for Xenforo at the moment. Please keep up the great work and make it even better over the time,
@Jaxel
These would be my first thoughts to improve it and avoid the obvious things, decreasing priority (just my voting):
1.) I understand the technical problem, that Xenforo system does not render complex bbcodes in preview tooltips and in search results. So, is there no way to work around that? Somehow like "pull the event description out of the calander-bbcode" and show/put it solo first? This way tooltips and more importantly within search results & tag searches users would be teasered with the event description, not with the naked calendar-bbcode-number. Or maybe the event description could be "faked"/doubled outside of the bbcode somehow for tooltips and search results and be hidden on the event page...
Admins/users could double the event description after creation as a work-around. Just edit the event threads first message and put the same text under the calendar-bbcode, but this is not worthy for such a good pro add-on.
2.) I really, really do not understand, why keyword filtering hides events containing the marked keywords. This may be an option for the users if they need that, yes. But in "normal case" one is looking exactly for those events, which do have a keyword. If one marks "Festival", I highly assume one is searching for festivals. At status quo one would not be able to search for all festivals, except one finds by chance an event containing the "Festival" keyword an then clicks that keyword... Please add the filter option not to hide, but to search for keywords.
3.) Please add the option to add thread tags while event creation, additionally to the event keywords. Of course they can be editted later, but more promising is to demand them at event creation time. Maybe this option could show up, when you add a checbox "Add thread". This would be more obvious for the users, as just leaving the thread options blank (to avoid thread creation).
4.) The location is saved in English, although I live in Germany, use a German OS and browser and Google Maps is shown in German. So, I would search for "Brandenburger Tor, Berlin, Deutschand", it will be found and shown correctly with German names within Google Maps, but the event saves the English names "Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany". This is even more interfering, because City and State will use the same English names when shown in the event title.
5.) At event creation the start and end date is shown in the format year-mm-dd and I do not find a configuration to change it there. I would like to show it dd.mm.year. Not a big thing, just saw it.
Again, I love this add-on, but it could become a real killer calendar add-on, far beyond the others.
Thanks a lot!