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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. .....

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.....

In JEvents 2.1+ we added special module positions to allow you to display instructions to site visitors/event creators or to place the other related modules like the filter module in more helpful positions. Please be aware that you need to enable the core Joomla! plugin 'Content - Load Modules' for this feature to work The positions include: Before JEvents is loaded:jevprejevents, jevprejevents_year.listevents, jevprejevents_week.listevents, jevprejevents_cat.listevents, jevprejevents_day.li.....

If you want to override specific language strings from the en-GB.com_jevents.ini file you can create a special override for these changes what won't get overwritten when you upgrade. Joomla provides an easy mechanism for overriding language strings in any component or module. In the back-end of Joomla select the Language Manager from the Extensions Menu and then select "Overrides". Here you are can create new language overrides - there is a clever search tool to find the strings you want to c.....

This document will show you how to recreate the Iconic Layout used on the Demo Site. .....

This is part of the Custom Format String which can be removed by customising the Custom Format String. Refer to the Custom Format Strings document. .....

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.....

CSS (Casacding Style sheets) control how your whole site looks, without it you just get a plain white page with borders if they are hard coded. This is great! as it allows the end user (You!) to customise the site to suite your needs as everyone is different, I like blue but you might like red? So, lets start. Lets say you are using the Alternative Layout for your JEvents installation and in the Latest Events Module the category color lines are not showing? They should look like:    .....

JEvents 2.0.x implements layout editing for the monthly calendar cell and the monthly calendar tooltip.  These are more complex to customise effectively than the list layout or event detail layout.  This short note describes how to do this for the club layouts (Iconic, Extplus and Ruthin) as well as those that come with JEvents (alternative, default, ext and geraint). .....