Default Calendar View
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Topic: Default Calendar View
Posted By: suedechaser
Subject: Default Calendar View
Date Posted: 09 April 2006 at 4:42am
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Hi All,
I would like to change the default Calendar view from monthly to weekly. Where is the default view in code ? I've had a good look through calendar.asp and I cannot see much. Can enyone help please? Thanks in advance Suede |
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 10 April 2006 at 10:54am
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This is not a easy task to do. You would need to change the link at the top of the forum to point to the file 'calendar_weekly.asp instead of calendar.asp You will also need to pass cross the month and week number in a querystring. |
Posted By: wistex
Date Posted: 03 May 2006 at 12:43pm
Borg, there may be another way to handle calendar_weekly.asp as far as input variables go. Instead of specifying a week number, you could instead input any date and then figure out the week's start date from there. Example:
By using this method, it would be super simple to link to any week in the weekly calendar without knowing the week number in advance. (Hopefully that makes sense. I'm a bit tired. When I am more awake, I'll come back and make sure what I said actually makes sense.)  ------------- http://www.wistex.com" rel="nofollow - WisTex Solutions http://www.caribbeanchoice.com/forums" rel="nofollow - CaribbeanChoice Forums |
-boRg- wrote:Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 04 May 2006 at 12:16pm
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Some interesting suggestions. The reason why the start day for the week is Sunday, is becuase Microsoft decided in VBScript that Sunday should be the first day of the week. This is why most ASP calendar systems have Sunday as the first day, I would have liked to have Monday, but the code calculations was complex enough, trying to make Monday the first day would have really have made things difficult and very unpredictable. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: wistex
Date Posted: 04 May 2006 at 2:11pm
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True, but it'd be nice to have an option to override that, especially if you are linking to the weekly calendar from outside the forum. I understand that the weekly calendar would start on Sunday if linked from the monthly calendar, but a lot of us would like to link to the weekly calendar directly and being able to tell it to start on Monday would be nice. If you implement it similar to how I described, then loading calendar_week.asp without any parameters would always load the current week's events. Also another possibility is displaying the week in a rolling 7 day format (i.e. the next 7 days). Especially when you are dealing with events, people are more concerned with what is upcoming rather than what is passed. When we link directly to the weekly view (bypassing the monthly view), more options become available for displaying the information. People could change the "Calendar" link to go to the weekly view or even link to it from outside the forum and display exactly what they want, not being tied to the way the Monthly view is configured. ------------- http://www.wistex.com" rel="nofollow - WisTex Solutions http://www.caribbeanchoice.com/forums" rel="nofollow - CaribbeanChoice Forums |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 04 May 2006 at 3:24pm
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If you link directly to the calendar_week.asp without passing any parameters it will already automatcally display the calendar for the present week. eg:- http://forums.webwiz.net/calendar_week.asp - http://forums.webwiz.net/calendar_week.asp If you want to display a particular week then you use the following parameters in a query string:- M= Month number - 1 to 12 W= Month week number - 1 to 5 (this can be omitted) 2 would be secound week of the month Y= Year - 1900 to 2030 eg:- M=5&W=2&Y=2006 ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: wistex
Date Posted: 04 May 2006 at 11:33pm
I think I misunderstood you before then. I thought you meant that you could not change the Calendar button to go to the weekly page because the week number needed to be passed in the parameter.
So the answer to his question is actually yes then. You can change the default view to be weekly instead of monthly by changing the Calendar button link, and there is no need to pass any parameters since it defaults to the current week.
Am I correct?
P.S. Being able to pass the date in the URL instead of a week number would be a lot easier for those of us integrating the calendar from outside the forum, since its easier to pass a date than figure out what week number a date belongs to. ------------- http://www.wistex.com" rel="nofollow - WisTex Solutions http://www.caribbeanchoice.com/forums" rel="nofollow - CaribbeanChoice Forums |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 05 May 2006 at 10:19am
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Yes you are correct, I was wrong in my first post and had forgot that I had built in error handling that would default to the present week if not date had been passed. I shall look into the possibility of being able to pass a date to the week view page. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |