Getting Started

Event Detail - Layout Editing

JEvents features a tool to edit the layout of the event detail page, event list pages and the monthly calendar cell/tooltips (JEvents 2.0+ only) . This video gives a quick demonstration of this in action for the event detail page. NB when editing the monthly calendar cell or tooltips it is essential that you disable the WYSIWYG editor. .....

Importing Events in CSV Format

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In JEvents it is possible to import events from a CSV file. The format of this file is very important - some users find MS Excel doesn't give enought flexibility to set the field delimiter to a comma and it often ends up leaving out the double quotes around the fields. If you have these problems then I'd revommend you try OpenOffice or LibreOffice instead to create the extract. It must include the following columns:[codep]"CATEGORIES","SUMMARY","LOCATION","DESCRIPTION","CONTACT","X-EXTRA.....

Quick Install Guide

Welcome to the JEvents Quick Install Guide, this guide is based on JEvents 3.x. It will help guide you through the inital setup of JEvents within your Joomla! installation. To start please select which version of Joomla! you are using: {toggle}Joomla! 2.5.x [+]|Joomla! 2.5.x [-]| 1. Download the JEvents Component from the JEvents Product Page. 2. Login to your Joomla! Administrator interface, select Extensions, Extension Manager. 3. Make sure you are on the Install screen, next cli.....

Getting Started with Calendars and Categories

Categories After you install JEvents you should open the component in the backend and click on 'Manage Categories'. As the name suggests categories are used to organise events into different types. You could have categories like 'kids', 'adults', 'families' or 'football', 'tennis', 'running' - whatever suits your data structure. You can have multi level categories e.g. 'tennis' and 'football' at a top level then 'kids tennis' and 'pro tennis' beneath tennis etc. When you cr.....

Quick Intro to JEvents

A quick introduction to JEvents .....

Authorisation, iCals and Google Imports

This is not full documentation by a long way but should help you get started with JEvents. New Events Structure In order to accomodate repeat exceptions, and iCal imports a whole new way of representing events has been implemented. This follows the iCal specification and you will see there is a whole new way of creating events. ICal Subscriptions You can either import or create 'calendars' (currently called 'iCal Subscriptions') in one of 3 ways: Importing from a URL Importing from a fi.....