JEvents Event Detail - Open in different template?

[dfreeburn]

* PHP version: 5.2.5
* Joomla! version: 1.5.11
* JEvents version: 1.5.1
* Web Server software: Apache 2.2.11
* Server Operating system: Linux CentOS
* Database version: MySQL 5.1.30
* memory_limit from your phpinfo: 64M
* Web browser and version: IE7, FF3, FF:mac, Safari:mac

I have set up two templates on my site - one for content throughout the site (set as default template), and one specifically for the homepage. I am using mod_jevents_latest to show a list of upcoming events on my homepage. When I click on an event, though, I want the event details to show up in the content template, not the home page template. I have been able to do this for my other links, but I can't seem to get the JEvents links to open in any template other than the homepage template.

Any suggestions?

[Geraint]

Create a menu item for JEvents

[dfreeburn]

JEvents MVC

Year List of Events
Monthly Calendar
Week List of Events
Day List of Events
Category List of Events
Manage Events
Create New Event

When I try to create a menu item for JEvents, these are my only options. Shouldn't there be an option for Event Detail?

The page URL for the event detail is: /component/option,com_jevents/Itemid,1/day,17/evid,5/month,07/task,icalrepeat.detail/uid,121...
The menu item link is index.php?option=com_jevents&task=year.listevents
There's no option which gives me option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail.

Thanks for your help.

[Geraint]

no need for an event detail menu - its just that the module looks for a jevents menu item so that joomla knows which template to use and which modules to display

[dfreeburn]

Works great! Thanks!

[Geraint]

wow that was quick !

[redheads55]

the module looks for a jevents menu item so that joomla knows which template to use and which modules to display

I did this, and the calendar opens in the correct template like a dream when I click on the menu link. My calendar template removes the right-side column so the calendar can open up to full-width (otherwise it was just too narrow when there were many events listed).

But... When I try to post an item on the calendar it reverts back to the main template, which has the right-hand column, so the edit page is a mess with the overlapping right-hand column. What have I most likely done wrong which keeps the entire module from using the same calendar template?

Using the most recent joomla and Jevents, apache server, php5.2.3, mysql 5.0.16

The template is a heavily-customized siteground template, and the calendar version is the same template with the right column removed.

Thanks for any clues you might have!

[Geraint]

1. Switch off sef (if its enabled)
2. edit/create an event.
3. look for the Itemid value in the URL

How does this differ to the Itemid for your calendar menu item?

[redheads55]

SEF was on, I turned it off. I added an item.
the url while looking at that event is:
... index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=45&Itemid=47 ...

so the number is 47, which matches the calendar menu item when I click on the menu as assigned to the *starred* template selection:
...index.php?option=com_jevents&task=month.calendar&Itemid=47...

What else shall I check?

[Geraint]

What do you do for the "template" to revert to the wrong one? When you do that what is the Itemid in the URL?