Posted by sarexpert on February 23, 2010 at 5:20pm
I was wondering if anyone has been successful in building an organization event calendar.
I have followed several howtos, and always seem to get stuck when the events are listed in the calendar view at the time of creation of the node, instead of the date of the event.
Other issues, such as how to create multi-day events, etc are also troubling 9I have not gotten that far)
I would also love to have a "Upcoming events block" that lists the next several upcoming event nodes, and automatically selects for the next week. (I actually got this close to working, but screwed it up)
We have most everything else on http://dewg.cap.gov working, but this has been a real sticking point.
Ted
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When you edit the calendar
When you edit the calendar view, you need to click on the date under arguments and look at the options there. One of the options lets you choose which date field should be used. By default it's set to the node creation date. Change that to the cck date field you want to use.
The upcoming event block is included as part of the calendar module/view.
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Use a date field for the
Use a date field for the event node and calendar module. The calendar module gives you a default view that lists, as you say events by the creation of the node. Just change the argument and fields to the field you are using for the date:
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Just ran through this today
Just ran through this today and indeed it took me three tries to find that the "Arguments" section, not the "Sort criteria" are what matter. It would be much nicer if calendar module created a content type and a correctly configured View - the default view it provides is really an archive View not suitable for events.
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I sent the info to Alex. I have not yet heard whether it did the trick.
I agree. Maybe when we figure it out I will write up a howto, assuming I remember the steps!
Thanks,
Ted
Ted
If anyone wants, we can
If anyone wants, we can discuss calendaring at the next Central Jersey meetup. I've done a lot with calendars recently.