smd_calendar: complete schedule / event / calendar / diary

Gallex · 2014-12-16 14:08:32

yeah, i noticed that too, but now – no more duplicated div’s.

ps. maybe you should put this (my issue) into the plugin? ;) possible?

Bloke · 2014-12-16 14:37:12

Gallex wrote #286634:

maybe you should put this (my issue) into the plugin? ;) possible?

The main reason I’ve not done it, is because there are a zillion attributes already which weigh the plugin down. So adding more attributes to try and second-guess how people will use the plugin makes it quite tricky to build a universal AJAX system. For example:

What container name / id is in use. This is easy if the wraptag / html_id attributes are used, but if you do it outside the calendar plugin, it’s more difficult.
Whether you’re going to put more than one calendar per page.
Whether you’re going to use select lists for month/year.
Whether you’ve reconfigured the classes or manually built header content.
Whether you want article content in date cells to also popup without page refresh.
…

You can see the predicament. That’s why, for the sake of a few lines of jQuery, it’s currently up to site admins to implement any extras like this.

I would like to be able to make it easier for building this kind of thing with the plugin, but I don’t know how it can be done flexibly enough to cover most likely scenarios.

MattD · 2015-02-28 21:54:40

It seems when I click a date the url doesn’t include the m and y attributes, making the calendar go back to the current date, even if I add m and y to the maintain value. Is there another way to make the calendar stay where it was when clicked?

Bloke · 2015-03-01 08:55:27

MattD wrote #288661:

Is there another way to make the calendar stay where it was when clicked?

Yes. The maintain attribute is only for when navigating the calendar using the next/prev month links. To add date portions to your URL you need to alter your event anchor to include them, a bit like this:

<txp:smd_calendar section="events">
   <a href="?y=<txp:smd_cal_info type="year" />&m=<txp:smd_cal_info type="month" />"><txp:title /></a>
</txp:smd_calendar>

MattD · 2015-03-01 18:06:33

Bloke wrote #288664:

Yes. The maintain attribute is only for when navigating the calendar using the next/prev month links. To add date portions to your URL you need to alter your event anchor to include them, a bit like this:

<txp:smd_calendar section="events">...

My issue is with the small calendar.

<txp:smd_calendar size="small" section="events" emptyclass="cal-emtpy" maintain="section,date,m,y"/>

Bloke · 2015-03-01 21:06:47

MattD wrote #288673:

My issue is with the small calendar.

Then you’ll need to emulate/fake the behaviour of the small calendar using the full-size one. The minical is quite limited in what it can do — it’s just a throwback to this plugin’s roots in mdp_calendar.

There are a few examples dotted around the forum of making a faux minical (that’s one such example, though it’s not complete).

MattD · 2015-03-04 19:06:46

Sorry to bother but I’m banging my head. How do I get <txp:smd_article_event /> to display a list of events for a specific day, including recurring events?

Bloke · 2015-03-05 23:43:21

MattD wrote #288753:

How do I get <txp:smd_article_event /> to display a list of events for a specific day, including recurring events?

In theory, for today:

<txp:smd_article_event stepfield="custom_N" time="today">
   <txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink>
</txp:smd_article_event>

Where N is the custom field number that contains your recurring event definitions.

For specific days, you swap out time="today" for:

from='<txp:smd_cal_now now="yyyy-mm-dd 00:00:00" />'
to='<txp:smd_cal_now now="yyyy-mm-dd 23:59:59"

Of course, the dates themselves can be injected from anywhere: a txp:variable, from the URL via adi_gps, etc…

If that doesn’t work, what have you tried so far?

Last edited by Bloke (2015-03-05 23:47:23)

MattD · 2015-03-06 01:27:38

Bloke wrote #288784:

If that doesn’t work, what have you tried so far?

Finally got it working with your tip. Ended up using this

<txp:smd_article_event 
	stepfield="custom_3" 
	section="events" 
	from='<txp:variable name="article-date"/> 00:00:00'
	to='<txp:variable name="article-date"/> 23:59:59' 
	form="event-article"/>

where article-date is a variable with the format yyyy-mm-dd.

Thanks for your help and the great plugin.

Last edited by MattD (2015-03-10 13:16:34)

MattD · 2015-03-10 13:14:31

Can recurring events have and end time for each occurrence?

Is there a way to set a recurrence for every weekday? (Monday – Friday)

Last edited by MattD (2015-03-10 13:33:24)

Bloke · 2015-03-10 14:43:53

MattD wrote #288921:

Can recurring events have and end time for each occurrence?

Yes, set the article’s expiry date, either using the built-in field, or nominate a custom field to handle article expiry (see datefields).

Is there a way to set a recurrence for every weekday? (Monday – Friday)

Yes of sorts. I’ve partially implemented a shorthand syntax for date ranges, but I don’t think it works on stepfields. But you can use it in omitfields, by setting up your article like this:

Publish date: start of event
Expiry date: end of event
Recur custom field (stepfield): 1 day
Omit custom field (omitfield): {Sat:Sun}

That’ll schedule the event every day between article start and expiry, except Saturdays and Sundays.

There are probably alternatives, but I can’t think of any neater ones off the top of my head.

MattD · 2015-03-10 15:21:06

Bloke wrote #288925:

Yes, set the article’s expiry date, either using the built-in field, or nominate a custom field to handle article expiry (see datefields).

I think I’m ok since I really only need the end time but the expiry date ends the recurrence of the event as well right?

Bloke · 2015-03-10 15:39:16

MattD wrote #288929:

the expiry date ends the recurrence of the event as well right?

Yes, it ends the entire event so the recurrence ends along with it. The downside being the article is no longer available to view on the site (unless you’ve got Publish expired articles set in prefs). That’s why I added datefields so you could “end” an event and still have the article available on the site, because article expiry is then a separate entity.

Interestingly enough, an event with a start and expiry and no recurrence is termed a spanned event because it spans a date range. So another way to do your scenario above without recurrence is to just use article publish and expiry (or configure some datefields), set the extreme start and end dates of your event (which will, by design, make it recur “every day”), then use omitfield in the same way as earlier to remove {Sat:Sun} from the mix. I like to provide more than one way to skin a nut, or crack a cat, or whatever.

MattD · 2015-03-19 05:58:17

Think this is my last issue…

Timezones seem to be affecting events displaying. Server TZ is “America/Chicago” and Time Zone is America/Los_Angeles. Event’s with a posted date before 1:00 AM using below code do not display with a url containing the date of the article posted date such as 2015-03-23.

<txp:variable name="article-date"><txp:rah_function call="gps, htmlspecialchars" name="date" /></txp:variable>
<txp:smd_article_event 
	stepfield="custom_3" 
	section="events" 
	from='<txp:variable name="article-date"/> 00:00:00'
	to='<txp:variable name="article-date"/> 23:59:59' 
	form="event-article" omitfield="custom_5"/>

Manaus · 2015-09-16 18:37:39

Hello, I can’t manage to print anything in my little cells, here is the code

<txp:smd_calendar class="bigcalendar" 
    firstday="1" 
    section="appuntamenti" 
    datefields="custom_1" // tried also data_evento but no
    wraptag="div"
    dayformat="Dom,Lun,Mar,Mer,Gio,Ven,Sab"
monthformat="Gennaio,Febbraio,Marzo,Aprile,Maggio,Giugno,Luglio,Agosto,Settembre,Ottobre,Novembre,Dicembre">
      1 // does not print 
</txp:smd_calendar>

Thanks!!!

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#856 2014-12-16 14:08:32

Re: smd_calendar: complete schedule / event / calendar / diary

#857 2014-12-16 14:37:12

Re: smd_calendar: complete schedule / event / calendar / diary

Gallex wrote #286634:

#858 2015-02-28 21:54:40

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#859 2015-03-01 08:55:27

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MattD wrote #288661:

#860 2015-03-01 18:06:33

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Bloke wrote #288664:

#861 2015-03-01 21:06:47

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MattD wrote #288673:

#862 2015-03-04 19:06:46

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#863 2015-03-05 23:43:21

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MattD wrote #288753:

#864 2015-03-06 01:27:38

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Bloke wrote #288784:

#865 2015-03-10 13:14:31

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#866 2015-03-10 14:43:53

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MattD wrote #288921:

#867 2015-03-10 15:21:06

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Bloke wrote #288925:

#868 2015-03-10 15:39:16

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