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Posted by Copernicus at Dec 3, 2008, 7:59:58 PM

Re: Announcing: Upload Your Own ClipArt
I can upload my own picture, and it's listed, but it's not visible anywhere else, with the backround nothing is happening, and if I'm doing that with the event it's still showing me the little airplaine not my uploaded picture. I'm going crazy with that. HELP!!!

Posted by support at Dec 7, 2008, 6:35:56 PM

Re: Announcing: Upload Your Own ClipArt
The only uploaded image I see that you have is "clear_banner.jpg"

If you had another image, the way to have it display with an event is to expand the "Add an image to this event" section, and select the "Uploaded images category".

You can also add an u/i'd image to the event description by clicking the little picture of the Tree in the description editor toolbar.
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Posted by tahoekeysrental at Dec 28, 2008, 1:13:54 PM

Re: Announcing: Upload Your Own ClipArt
I use the month view on our website, and my uploaded clipart makes the calendar have uneven sizing. If there is an image in a day, for example, the calendar is wider to accommodate the image (even though the image is relatively small), but days without an image shrink to almost nothing. Help!

Posted by support at Dec 31, 2008, 9:49:04 AM

Re: Announcing: Upload Your Own ClipArt
Without seeing your page, I can still describe what's going on..

The calendar *wants* to fit to the space you've given it (or rather, your browser wants to fit it to the space). The alternative is to add horizontal scroll bars to give it enough room, which doesn't make the presentation look too nice.

If you want to go this route (assuming you are using the interactive embedded calendar), change this parameter:
scrolling=no
to
scrolling=yes

and make the width a length that works for your content.

Ultimately, you can't put 10 pounds of baloney in a 5lb sack, so something's gotta give.
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Posted by mygig at Jan 15, 2009, 7:12:59 AM

Re: Announcing: Upload Your Own ClipArt
It should be clarified here and on the My Clipart screen that clip art images to appear on the calendar need to be thumbnail size to not mess up the calendar.

I have had people load full size pics and this causes the last two days of the week (Fri and Sat) to be cut off the calendar.

I find that for my calendar at least, images to be seen on the calendar should be maximum 130 pixels wide.

Images that appear in the description can be larger, however.

Posted by mygig at Jan 17, 2009, 12:50:40 PM

Re: Announcing: Upload Your Own ClipArt
It's a great feature! However, please clarify on the My Clipart screen that this is intended for thumbnail images.

I have had some people upload more full size images to the calendar and this messes up the last day or two (Fri/Sat) on the calendar.

When they do this, I inform them after resizing and re-uploading the image as a thumbnail that such images should be a max of 130 pixels wide.

It's as simple as keeping an uploaded clip art to stay within certain parameters.

Posted by mygig at Jan 20, 2009, 1:29:45 PM

Re: Announcing: Upload Your Own ClipArt

This much requested feature has been added. Members may now upload their own clipart to use in their events!

This feature requires one of our premium subscriptions (see: http://www.localendar.com/elsie?JSP=/subscribe/premium_index)

In the "Add an Image to this Event" section of the Event Editor, there is a button for "My Clipart Library" which will allow you to upload and maintain your artwork on localendar.com

You may add images to the event (select Uploaded Images as the category), or to the event description (Click the small "tree" icon)

Your images are also accessible at

http://www.localendar.com/upload/yourmembername/imagefilename

This means you may also use HTML's <img> tag to add uploaded images to your event title, calendar title, or calendar footer
example:

<img src="http://www.localendar.com/upload/myname/myimage.gif"/>

You can also use your uploaded images for the calendar background! (Under Options->Colors)
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That's all good, but as I've reported many times now, Clip Art uploaders should be alerted on the Clip Art upload page that this for appearance on the calendar is meant for thumbnail images only.

Larger images clip off the last one or two days (depending on size) of the month's calendar. So, as I've said previously, too large (non-clip art size) simply clips off the Friday or Saturday (one or both depending on the pix size) cuts off the final one or two days of the calendar weekend gigs.

Posted by support at Jan 20, 2009, 9:22:36 PM

Re: Announcing: Upload Your Own ClipArt
Actually, it's not an issue due solely to clipart. Depending on how many events you add, custom html, etc and the calendar Publishing style you are using (especially the "fully interactive embedded calendar" which uses an iFrame) you may need to adjust other calendar settings.

We don't specifically dictate clipart dimensions for this reason. If your members are uploading large images, you might want to "approve" events before they are published.
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Posted by mygig at Feb 10, 2009, 3:20:56 PM

Re: Announcing: Upload Your Own ClipArt
I've posted this several times now, but nothing seems to get done about it in spite of assurances long ago.

Somewhere on the Clip Art page, there's a need to let people know that for an image to appear on the calendar, it needs to be only a thumbnail image.

Anything larger messes up the calendar and depending on the size of image uploaded as clip art, it may cut off the last day or three of the on-line calendar.

Can something not be added to the screen as an alert about this?

I keep on having to let my posting public know that they should restrict images to not larger than 130 pixels wide to prevent cutting off the last day or so on the calendar.

Posted by mygig at Feb 10, 2009, 3:31:31 PM

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That's fine, but what's the harm in specifying that only thumbnail size images apply without specifying any dimension.

As I have many posters, it's simply too onerous to have to approve everything before its appearance on the calendar.

Is there a process for at least approving what's uploaded as clip-art?

When I notice incidentally in the clip-art list or on the calendar that someone has uploaded an image that's too large, I save and resize it and re-upload it as a thumbnail to replace the too large image. However, in the meantime until I notice the problem, it messes up the calendar.