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What is eventDB?
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Myxa's eventDB is a full featured event
calendar system that can meet a wide range of needs. With eventDB
your events can be easily entered and the system will make sure
that current data is alway front and center on your web site.
Myxa's eventDB allow you to provide a single system that can meet
all of your event calendar and promotion functions on your web site.
Now a single system can easily support:
• highlighting upcoming featured
events
• providing a consolidated view
of all of your events
• providing specialized or selected
view calendars of individual organizations or groups
eventDB Features at a Glance
Dynamic event calendar views
Summary views to provide visitors an overview or snapshot in time
of available events include:
• Today's activity
• This weeks activity
• This Month's activity
• This Semester's activities
• This Season's activities
• Large blotter calendar view (month
at a glance)
• Small calendar views (highlighted/hyperlinked
days indicated days that have events)
Event listings
Visitors are able to identify events of interest and drill down
for details with:
• Summary views
• Event lists
• Event detail page
View controls
these are all available depending on the needs of your site.
• Consolidated calendars/listings
— provide a comprehensive view on what events are happening
over a time period
• Selected views of calendars/listing
— views events that correlate to a pre-defined criteria.
• Date range
• Location — geographic region
and venue
• Series
• Subscription packages
• Organization — e.g. department,
group, sponsor
• Event type — e.g. sports,
music, theater)
• Event category or sub-category
— additional refinements off of event type. (This allows you
list womens soccer schedule separate from the mens soccer.)
• Short and Long fields for key
event data elements — this allows you to define abbreviations
for any long names of key data elements that display in small amounts
of space on a web page
End User Search functions
• Date range
• Location — geographic region
and venue
• Event type, category and sub-category
• Organization
• Featured individuals: artists/performers/athletes...
• Event title/name
• Other key fields
Dynamic generation or result
pages
• Up coming event information always
at the top
• Up-to-date view of event data
• Automatic display of "buy"
or other ticket status icons
Comprehensive data available
for results pages
• Event title/name
• Time and location
• Featured individuals: artists/performers/athletes...
• Program listings
• Detailed event description
• Footnotes and special notices
• Sponsorship notices and graphics
• Graphics
• Sound clips
• "Buy" button support
— link this performance/event directly to your on-line ticketing
system
• Links to more information
• Venue information
• Sponsoring organization information
Database-driven calendar
• Central data repository —
one place to maintain the data
• One data store -— many calendar
views
• Authenticated access control over
data
Management Functions
• Distributed data entry
• Intelligent display of content
— predefined and ad-hoc searches
• Full session management
Design Controls
• Template-based HTML files
• One results page can replace 100's
of static calendar pages
• Control over what content is displayed
on a dynamic page
• Full HTML control over presentation
of data
• Integration of custom graphics
images
• Easy to adapt to Web design changes
• Rapid integration into new sites
Data management functions
• Easy to use web-forms — presenter
oriented
• Enter entire season of events
in hours
• Extranet based
• Distributed data management functions
— each presenter can manage their own event data
• Data management authority controls
what data a user can maintain
• Centralized publishing controls
Technical specification/information
Myxa's eventDB runs on most Unix platforms including:
• Sun/Solaris 2.x
• Linux
• IBM/AIX
eventDB requires the following software:
• Perl
• Apache web server
• DBMS — MySQL, Oracle or DB2
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