Calendar Function

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Last Post: June 18, 2010   (RSS)

By drewh01 - June 15, 2010

Hi, I need to find a calendar function that I can add to the right hand column my site so I can use the CMSB to add dates/activities..etc.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks!

Re: [drewh01] Calendar Function

By gkornbluth - June 15, 2010

Hi drewh01,

A lot of us have pushed for a calendar.

I personally want one that I am able to host and control.

So far one of the best (but not perfect) solutions I've come across is Bosdates from Bosdev http://www.bosdev.com/bosdates/

It's the one of the only ones that deals reasonably well with events that span multiple dates

Hope you find it helpful.

Any other favorites among the CMSB user community?

Best,

Jerry Kornbluth
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Re: [Toledoh] Calendar Function

By gkornbluth - June 16, 2010

Thanks Tim,

Looks interesting.

I'll take a deeper look soon and we can compare notes.

I wonder if it can pull dates and event info from a CMSB section record?

Best,

Jerry
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Re: [gkornbluth] Calendar Function

By Toledoh - June 16, 2010

Yes it can, however it doesn't do repeat dates (or didn't when I last looked, although that was on the to-do list).

Have a look at http://www.interactivetools.com/iforum/gforum.cgi?post=79839;t=search_engine#79839

Go back to April / May in my example and there's some dates displayed from CMSB
Cheers,

Tim (toledoh.com.au)

Re: [Toledoh] Calendar Function

By drewh01 - June 16, 2010

Thanks for the suggestions. What I am looking for is a rather small calendar that can fit in a rather narrow space on the website. like 300px square that would have dates listed on the calendar that when clicked would pop up a text area with a description and link to the event page.

I found this script that looks promising, just need to see if I can get it to work with CMSB.

http://www.phpcalendarscripts.com

Any ideas?

Re: [drewh01] Calendar Function

By Toledoh - June 16, 2010

I'm not sure how easy it would be to integrate that into CMSB...
Cheers,

Tim (toledoh.com.au)

Re: [drewh01] Calendar Function

By Codee - June 18, 2010

Why not create a "Calendar" section with a separate list viewer on the page for the 300 dpi square area on the page? Have it display just the dates or dates and short title and when they click on it have the details page viewer appear in a new window?

Re: [equinox69] Calendar Function

By drewh01 - June 18, 2010

So I can make this look like a proper calendar with the correct dates (31days) and formatting...etc.

Re: [drewh01] Calendar Function

By Codee - June 18, 2010

You mean like a click on the date graphical calendar? That's not what I was referring to. I was referring to something like an events calendar where you line-item events.
ex:
June 1, 2010 Seniors Trip
June 13, 2010 Shopping Extravaganza
etc...


Sorry if I misunderstood what you were asking.