I had issues with the GroupCalendar, and I've tried every single way to make it work.
After a while I did some research and it seems that Blizz has made a new "law" that prevents mod-creators from making GroupCalendar and to make it interact with the game itself.
The following quote is taken from Curse.com and I hope that this post will clear some of your problems up somewhat!
{http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/group-calendar.aspx}
Group Calendar is no longer publicly available
For four years now I have been providing my addons and support for them for free, without advertising, without donations, just plain free. I've answered questions for vast numbers of people quickly and when patches or serious bugs are causing problems I provide updates quickly as well. I've created and leveled new characters to hunt down class-specific bugs, I've spent lots of time on PTRs looking for bugs so I can have an upload ready when a patch is about to be released, and I've added features that I've never personally used but which others requested and find useful. When The Burning Crusade torched the raiding guild I was in and the guild I joined used a web-based calendar instead of an in-game one, I kept on developing and debugging Group Calendar even though the only feature I still used personally was the tradeskill reminders. Development was a lot harder without a whole guild and I had to use my spouse's account and a vanity guild I created just to test and to reproduce other people's bugs.
During those years I had to endure the occasional jerk who treated me like an employee, or the fanboi who would come by and declare that my work was garbage and ItemRack, ClosetGnome, GEM, etc. are so much better than anything I made. I've had friends reassure me when all this got me down, when the fun of developing and sharing my work felt like it was completely gone. They'd remind me that for every one of those asshats there were a vast number more who appreciated and valued my contributions to their enjoyment of the game.
Blizzard has every right to control the in-game experience and to regulate addons in that manner, but when Blizzard announced a policy that effectively asserted distribution control over addon author's copyrighted material (as all addons are unless they explicitly state otherwise) I was livid. I know how much time and effort it takes to develop, maintain, and support a major addon and I know that the code in most addons has nothing to do with anything Blizzard owns beyond that they run inside Blizzard's sandbox environment. Having all that work devalued by rude users is one thing, but having it devalued by Blizzard is too much. So I pulled my addons from public distribution in protest.
I couldn't have imagined the things that the addon-using community would be saying in reaction. I know most players at least understand the right to stand up and oppose something you believe to be wrong, but there are so many players who've made it painfully clear that they consider Addons to be nothing more "typing a few words onto the screen" or something else just as trite, and Blizzard's policy has given them even more reason to believe they're right. "AND JUSTICE IS SERVED" one poster commented recently, as if there were any wrongs needing "justice." I've been told I'm greedy, that I'm especially horrible for protesting this policy because my work is already free and isn't affected, and of course the always lovely "good riddance".
These days even my friends who've reminded me over the years of all the people who appreciate what I've done, even those friends have to pause. Even they don't know what to think of the addon-using community anymore. They're as shocked and dismayed as I am at those comments and no longer encourage me to ignore those people. Even they now understand just how abusive some players can get and how low some players are willing to go if their free stuff seems threatened.
The issue of in-game solicitation for donations has been cleared up thanks to efforts by sites like Curse and WoWInterface. The issue of Blizzard asserting rights over how an author chooses to distribute his work has not been settled. Two weeks since their policy announcement Blizzard has still made no statement on this issue: not to clarify it, not to justify it, not even to say "we'll look into the concerns being raised".
I'm not upset with Blizzard in general, just with some of this new policy. I look forward to Ulduar and I think Blizzard provides a world-class product for a good value.
I'm not interested in someone else "picking up" my work as I'm not stopping development, and I've released a couple new versions of Outfitter and both Group Calendar 4 and 5 over the past two weeks. I just have no interest in distributing them publicly anymore because of this new policy and, frankly, because of the attitude I've seen so many players express recently. I know most players appreciate the time and effort and value that major addons provide them, but it's clear that so many players take my work and time for granted, that so many players spit on addon authors, that I don't see how I'll ever have fun contributing to the public addon community again.
I'm considering whether to begin posting builds to Curse and WoWI again so that people can get updates via the auto-updaters (yes, I like auo-updaters too). I'd like to hear *anything* from Blizzard before making a decision. If I do resume uploading, I probably won't provide public support or even read the public forums anymore. Avoiding the support forums wouldn't be out of spite, it'd be out of the need to eliminate this abusive and stressful aspect from my life. I wonder how many people reading this have a hobby where they endure harsh and abusive crticism from people who are actually helped, for free, by their hobby. I doubt many would continue a hobby in an environment like that, at least not publicly.
Alternatively, I'm considering putting them back up publicly and using the donation facilities added by Curse and WoWI. I'm going to be treated like an employee and be held to the standards of a business anyhow. Maybe it'd be easier to put up with the bs if I'm paid a fair wage for all the time and abuse that comes with this job. I'm not too keen on turning what's supposed to be a fun hobby into a job though, so I just don't know.
I want the fun of my hobby back.
