smd_calendar: complete schedule / event / calendar / diary

progre55 · 2011-06-02 03:17:08

Bloke:

Yes, it made sense, but —

Unfortunately, I think I am chasing my tail I think —everytime I think I have a solution I come up snake eyes — let me know if you think this can be done to overcome my issues. Rather than having two columns, I will make the calendar fill the page. When an event is selected, I will trigger a lightbox script to open in front of the calendar and show the details. Although I have not doen this before, I am assuming I can have the article description “fill” the lightbox area. In the past, I have only used lightboxes on images using your great smd_gallery plug in. Sorry for all the back and forth and all has not gone for not because I was able to use the above for one of the projects where I needed to do the small calendar but did not have this isue of the calendar holding on proper month and only showing one article.

progre55

Last edited by progre55 (2011-06-02 03:19:22)

decoderltd · 2011-06-02 16:30:23

Bloke wrote: Not necessarily, although rvm_counter / adi_calc save you the hassle of making your own counter using <txp:variable /> and <txp:if_variable>. I think there are some examples floating around either on the forum or at TXPTips #1 #2.

Hi Stef,

Thank you for pointing me towards adi_calc, it looks like it’s going to be very useful plug-in once I get my head around it. I’m trying to create an article counter but it’s not going too well:

      <txp:variable name="articleCount" value="0" >
         <txp:adi_calc name="articleCount" add="1">
            <txp:if_variable name="articleCount" value="3">
               <dt><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></dt>
               <dd><txp:smd_event_duration format="%A, %B %d, %Y" /></dd>
            </txp:if_variable>
         </txp:adi_calc>

Any advice welcome!

progre55 · 2011-06-02 16:43:09

Stef:

Thanks for all your assistance with my issues. I figured out a work around solution. I am going with a large calendar that fills the space and a custom form to put the event/description inside of the day. This loioks sharp, cuts down a step for the end user & overcomes my issue (ok one of my many issues)

Thanks again for your asistance.

progre55

pafruu · 2011-06-20 18:52:04

Hello, I’ve been using this plugin for a while now and I’ve stumbled upon a situation to which I do not know the answer.

I am currently using the calendar for a baseball team in the area, and they are asking me if it is possible to change the events background colors. Currently I only have one color and I am using two categories for the events: HomeGame and AwayGame.

Is there a way to assign a different event color for each event category?

Is it a CSS issue?

Please let me know

Last edited by pafruu (2011-06-20 20:29:29)

els · 2011-06-20 20:12:11

Hi pafruu, if I’m not mistaken the plugin adds class="your-category-name" to the table cells by default. So you could add something like

td.homegame {background-color: blue;}
td.awaygame {background-color: red;}

to your stylesheet.

pafruu · 2011-06-20 20:30:50

Just noticed That I didnt specify that I want to change the color of the event specifically.

If I am right, what you are suggesting, Els, changes the color of the cell right?

els · 2011-06-20 20:58:14

Yes, that’s right, I assumed you needed the cell’s background colour. But I guess you can wrap your event tags in a <span class="<txp:category1 />"> and style td span.homegame and td span.awaygame?

Bloke · 2011-06-20 21:03:08

pafruu wrote:

I want to change the color of the event specifically.

Els is right that the category is added by default to each cell and event (see the classlevels ad eventclasses attributes). Except, I uhhh, can’t get them to work properly right now which is either me being:

a) completely stupid with using my own tags
b) completely stupid in the latest version of the plugin

Either way I’m testing a few things and will get back to you.

els · 2011-06-20 21:14:52

Stef, I’m not getting an eventclass either. I assumed that is because I’m using an eventform, could that be it?

Bloke · 2011-06-20 21:19:53

Els wrote:

Stef, I’m not getting an eventclass either. I assumed that is because I’m using an eventform, could that be it?

I thought so too at first, but I’ve tried a vanilla tag (using the default output) and it’s still not showing any event classes. I’ve put some extra debug output into the plugin and it’s showing me that the event classes are being detected and catalogued correctly, but are being destroyed before they’re logged against the event itself. Can’t for the life of me see why.

^{Special retardo-coder-goggles *on*}

Bloke · 2011-06-20 22:08:10

Well, I was being dim. I was unable to figure out why there were no category event classes showing up… when none of my events actually had a Category1 or Category2 set. *slap*

But nonetheless I’ve released a bugfix version 0.52 which addresses a minor annoyance whereby some classes had spurious spaces before them, e.g. class=" some_class">. That no longer happens.

Regardless of whether you use the stock output or a container (though cellforms will need building manually) you’ll get the category names — plus classprefix — assigned to each event in a large calendar for you to styles as you see fit, e.g:

span.homegame {background-color: blue;}
span.awaygame {background-color: red;}

(since each event is inside a span by default). fwiw, small calendars aren’t wired that way so you won’t get this functionality.

Please let me know if you don’t experience this and post your tag/container code so I can see if the plugin still needs tazing into shape or if I can help adjust your tags to accomplish what you want.

els · 2011-06-20 22:14:56

Bloke wrote:

(though cellforms will need building manually)

Yes, that makes sense.

Yet another on-the-fly fix :) Thanks, I had noticed these spaces, but assumed it was something I did ;)

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