About Group Calendar
Group Calendar allows guilds or groups of friends to share an in-game event calendar. The guild can post raid events and members can post events for dungeons they need to do quests for. Additionally, players can provide feedback to the event's sponsor saying that they will or won't be attending an event.
Once installed Group Calendar replaces the minimap current time tooltip and sun & moon icon. This can be used to open the UI or it can be opened using the /calendar command.
For instructions on how to set up Group Calendar for your guild or for your personal use, see the online user's manual
4.3 and newer versions will not talk to previous 4.x versions (including the 4.3 betas) so your guild or alliance must all upgrade. Severing the ability to communicate with previous versions was necessary because of two serious bugs which caused your data to be modified as it got passed from player to player while you are offline. This resulted in the "your events were changed from another computer" messages and loss of events or signups if you chose to accept those changes. By not allowing 4.3 to talk to previous versions it prevents that bug from corrupting the events, but it means the guild must all update.
New in Group Calendar 4.3
- FEATURE: Added WotLK dungeons/raids
- FEATURE: Converted to use Blizzard event icons (reduced download size)
- FEATURE: Removed /calendar command to allow Blizzard calendar to use it (/cal still works for GC)
- FEATURE: Removed offtank/offhealer roles
- FEATURE: Minimap clock allows access to Blizzard calendar via right-click
- FEATURE: Level cap change to 80
- FEATURE: Tradeskill cooldowns work for all locales
- FEATURE: Added new Northrend transmutes and research cooldowns
- FEATURE: Added support for communicating version info with all 4.x versions
- FEATURE: Added day of month to minimap button
- FEATURE: Event copy/paste
- FEATURE: Updated German translation for newer version message
- FEATURE: Adjusted date display on minimap button for better visibility
- FEATURE: Versions list can be reset so that only version information obtained after the reset will be displayed (does not affect events)
- FEATURE: Versions list can be sorted by version
- FEATURE: Updated German translation
- FEATURE: Added Ebonweave, Spellweave and Moonshroud cooldown support
- FEATURE: Players receive a message when they are confirmed or on standby for an event (use '/cal attend off' to disable)
- BUGFIX: Password will no longer get set to "*********" when changing settings
- BUGFIX: Fixed Deathknight support
- BUGFIX: Add Player dialog auto-completes player info correctly when closing without tabbing out of the name field first
- BUGFIX: Event databases not owned by a player will no longer be pruned for expired events
- BUGFIX: "Changes won't appear until synch is done" dialog won't appear during normal player database pruning at startup
- BUGFIX: Fixed bug in event viewer causing databases not owned by the player to get modified
- BUGFIX: Fixed bug causing calendar display to update even when it wasn't being shown (should fix certain lag spike issues)
- BUGFIX: Moved "newer version available" message
- BUGFIX: Group invite failures are processed correctly (already group, not online, etc.)
- BUGFIX: Corrected Obsidian (Heroic) event name
- BUGFIX: Delayed initialization slightly so server date gets received
- BUGFIX: "None" event type is no longer considered private
- BUGFIX: Fixed initialization error "attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'vCurrentDate'" (should fix other bugs caused by the aborted initialization)
- BUGFIX: Fixed alchemy research cooldown reminder
v4.3.4 Changes
- BUGFIX: Fixed error when GC attempts to notify you that you've been accepted to an event
v4.3.3 Changes
- FEATURE: Adjusted date display on minimap button for better visibility
- FEATURE: Versions list can be reset so that only version information obtained after the reset will be displayed (does not affect events)
- FEATURE: Versions list can be sorted by version
- FEATURE: Updated German translation
- FEATURE: Added Ebonweave, Spellweave and Moonshroud cooldown support
- FEATURE: Players receive a message when they are confirmed or on standby for an event (use '/cal attend off' to disable)
v4.3.2 Changes
- FEATURE: Updated German translation for newer version message
- BUGFIX: "None" event type is no longer considered private
- BUGFIX: Fixed initialization error "attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'vCurrentDate'" (should fix other bugs caused by the aborted initialization)
- BUGFIX: Fixed alchemy research cooldown reminder
v4.3.1 Changes
- BUGFIX: Corrected Obsidian (Heroic) event name
- BUGFIX: Delayed initialization slightly so server date gets received
v4.3 Changes
IMPORTANT: 4.3 will not talk to previous 4.x versions so your guild or alliance
must all upgrade. Severing the ability to communicate with previous
versions was necessary because of two serious bugs which caused your
data to be modified as it got passed from player to player while you
are offline. This resulted in the "your events were changed from
another computer" messages and loss of events or signups if you
chose to accept those changes. By not allowing 4.3 to talk to previous
versions it prevents that bug from corrupting the events, but it means
the guild must all update.
- FEATURE: Added WotLK dungeons/raids
- FEATURE: Converted to use Blizzard event icons (reduced download size)
- FEATURE: Removed /calendar command to allow Blizzard calendar to use it (/cal still works for GC)
- FEATURE: Removed offtank/offhealer roles
- FEATURE: Minimap clock allows access to Blizzard calendar via right-click
- FEATURE: Level cap change to 80
- FEATURE: Tradeskill cooldowns work for all locales
- FEATURE: Added new Northrend transmutes and research cooldowns
- FEATURE: Added support for communicating version info with all 4.x versions
- FEATURE: Added day of month to minimap button
- FEATURE: Event copy/paste
- BUGFIX: Password will no longer get set to "*********" when changing settings
- BUGFIX: Fixed Deathknight support
- BUGFIX: Add Player dialog auto-completes player info correctly when closing without tabbing out of the name field first
- BUGFIX: Event databases not owned by a player will no longer be pruned for expired events
- BUGFIX: "Changes won't appear until synch is done" dialog won't appear during normal player database pruning at startup
- BUGFIX: Fixed bug in event viewer causing databases not owned by the player to get modified
- BUGFIX: Fixed bug causing calendar display to update even when it wasn't being shown (should fix certain lag spike issues)
- BUGFIX: Moved "newer version available" message
- BUGFIX: Group invite failures are processed correctly (already group, not online, etc.)
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...