How to get a Calendar List?

by **edmund** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:51 pm

Besides the Category selection, has there any way to list the calendars in the selected category?
e.g. when I click a category, it show all calendars belong to this category. Then I can choose one of the calendar in this category.

or. Has there a way to list all calendars in all categories? Such that I can click the calendar I like, and get all events related to this calendar only?

by **Geraint** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:16 pm

There is currently no look up by calendar but it is possible in JEvents 1.5.3 to specify one or more "calendars" for a menu item.

I guess you're thinking about a "calendar" drop down a bit like the category list?

Geraint

by **edmund** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:32 am

Yes. I have more than 20 claendars in four categories now. I wish to select the required calendar in a easier way. My temporary solution is reconfigure to one calendar for each category.

by **Geraint** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:38 am

Before I start coding can you give me a specific example of how you have things set up? Also can you confirm when you say "calendar" you mean a calendar created from the calendar icon in the backend and not a "calendar" menu item in the frontend.

by **edmund** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:27 pm

OK. When I say "calendar" I mean a calendar created from the calendar icon in the backend. In my situation. I have to create different calendars for different country's holiday. for example:

I want to create a calendar to show all holidays event that applied to China; create another for Hong Kong; another for Taiwan; another for US etc
When the user come from China, they can select the calendar for China to show all holidays' event related to China.

In my configuration, I prefer to create a category "Holidays events" and create calendars for the countries for this category.
And the result I want is: under the category "Holidays events", the users can see the calendars under this category and let them to choose which calendar they want.

by **Geraint** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:42 am

The problem is that calendars and categories are independent - two different ways of slicing the data. We have a "default category" for calendars only as a convenient means of pre-setting the category when editing an event AND as the category that uncategorised imported events go into. In other words events in any calendar can go into any category.

If you want a category "Holiday events" you can have sub-categories for each country.

I guess you're loading the public holiday dates from an external iCal source - if so then how about this arrangement.

Category : Holiday Events
Sub Categories : China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, US etc.

Then when you import the Chinese holiday files you select a "default category" of China (the sub category).

Does this make sense?