Date + Calendar Screencast (Drupal 7)
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You can add the ability to store and display date information in your Drupal 7 website with the use of the Date and Calendar modules, which in turn depend on the Views and CTools modules. Here is one quick demonstration of how you can enable and configure these modules in order to let your users post information that contains dates.
To make the best use of this screencast it would be awesome to have some prior exposure to the Views module for Drupal. You should also have working knowledge of Drupal including the installation of contributed modules.
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I saw this webcast. Helps a lot. Thanks, sir.
thanks Sean, your video helps me a lot
I don't find calendar node in name view list! ....? someone can help me please!
I have to tell you that I am not a drupal expert and I have spent months trying to get online help to install the calendar and this is the best I have come across. Thank you for your effort....I tell you...other developers should take lessons from you regarding how to provide instructions....Do you have any instruction for installing ddblock?
i m facing this problm now..
'calendar_plugin_style: Missing calendar row plugin'
in calendar_plugin_style->render() (line 205 of D:\wamp\www\drupal-7\sites\all\modules\calendar\includes\calendar_plugin_style.inc).
Thanks, good tutorial!
Just a question:
At the Event Content type page, once the content is created, I see a link to the year calendar view, I can not find where to override it, I would need it linking to somewhere else or delete it.
Yet another question:
Similar to previous one. How can I change the default link to the day view at the block or year view, linking it instead to a panel?
I hope to be expressing myself!
Thanks for the tuto.
You totally Rock Dude!!!!!
This tutorial is awesome. It's what I am looking for!!
Many thx!!
Pete
So frustrated. I changed the contextual filter (which I guess is the argument) and now it's totally broken. A page worth of errors.
Whats with changing everything so dang much. I'm new to Drupal and am learning to utterly hate it. No experience on 6, only on 7 but 90% information isn't current (or it's assumed you'll understand the changes) it's for 6. So I'm stumbling every single step.
Fantastic tutorial. Many thanks!!!
no working video ?
A big THANK YOU!
I'm building a website for a company that actually thinks I know how to do all of this.
Thank you so much! Very clear and concise.
How do I get the calendar to start on Sunday instead of Monday? I see that this is happening in your screencast example, and it's happening to me too when I try it.
How do I get the calendar to start on Sunday instead of Monday? I see that this is happening in your screencast example, and it's happening to me too when I try it.
Hi Sean, I used your method and the latest modules as of this moment (adapting your method to the altered interface in views) - and it worked flawlessly. A perfect calendar resulted. Many thanks!
Ron House
Great tutorial. Many Thanks!
I m a beginner in Drupal and something took me time to understand. For european like me, if you need to choose the format of date, for exemple DD/MM/YYYY, you have to go in the Configuration of your Drupal 7 and then in Date and hours, set up your date format (long, short...).
Thanks - it was a very helpful video. I just installed drupal a couple hours ago - and I've only worked with DNN before (only a month or two at that) so it's sufficient to say that when it comes to web dev or CMS I am a complete newbie. I was able to install all modules (with help from google) and run them just as you explained with some minor brainwork due to updates. I appreciate you taking your time to do a great service like this.
-Jere
If I post an event with a start date and an end date will it show up on the calendar on each of the days between start and end? Like if it starts Friday and ends Sunday, will the calendar show it on Fri, Sat, and Sun? That's what I want it to do and I'm not getting that in my Drupal 6 site. Now I'm working on installing all this stuff, using your great tutorial as a guide.
Great Video !!!
Thanx
Brett1
HI thanks so you much. But It always warning like this : Strict warning: Creating default object from empty value in template_preprocess_calendar() (line 106 of C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal-7.2\sites\all\modules\calendar\theme\theme.inc).
The month that have event always warning.
i don't know what am i missing?
Thanks
Really great. Thank you so much.
Hi,
Thanks for the clear explanation, i did everything you said but I do not seem to be able to get a calender displayed on a seperate page with it's own menu, I tried to create a content node and refer to the URL 'calender' but does not do the trick, You make it seem look easy, but how do I get the calender displayed?
Thanks
Micha Fuks
Is a demo for FullCalendar Drupal 7 possible soon? I tried to use FullCalendar and found that the depencies descrition is confusing.
Thanks so much!
I found the solution,
Thanks! I learn a lot from your videos!
Thanks! Just made the jump to 7 and this was exactly what I needed for a site -- got me up and running! Many, many thanks.
Dear viewers,
This is Sean, I made this screencast. This screencast has been super helpful to some individuals, but frustrating for others since the Views and Calendar modules have been updated so heavily. The Views module in the current state of release is not stable enough to support the Calendar/Date modules (as described on the project pages of the Calendar module recently) and therefor throws some of this approach out the window. When those modules reach an equilibrium, I will produce a new screencast that is up to date for a time.
The video is still solid and the method doesn't change much, apart from the names of fields and arguments. There is still a lot you can learn here.
Sean
Hi Sean,
Do you have a feel for how stable the calendar module is yet. I am considering drupal 7, but need a stable calandar and date module.
Thanks
'calendar_plugin_style: Missing calendar row plugin'
in calendar_plugin_style->render() (line 205 of D:\wamp\www\drupal-7\sites\all\modules\calendar\includes\calendar_plugin_style.inc).
I get the following error when I click on the path for calendar in the view configuation
Fatal error: Call to a member function use_pager() on a non-object in /home/content/c/l/a/clarkegj/html/tribal/modules/views/includes/view.inc on line 510
any clues. I've re-upload the calendar and the views modules.
Help??? clarkegj@familysearch.org
for me it helped to udate the date module to 7.x-2.x-dev. after that run the update database script.
me too! Thank you.
AWESOME! Works for me! Thanks so much Sean!
Thanks Sean. Great screencast up to the point where I'm trying to edit the arguments to look at field_date. Since you know the Drupal world better than I, do you have a feel for how long it will take to reach that point? I'm really looking forward to being able to incorporate this feature into our site.
For everyone having issues with viewing their created "field date" you must update the ctools, views, date & calendar modules to the latest "dev" versions of each as instructed on the Date & Calendar modules pages.
Thanks for your response.
Hours to search the solution for only a bad version of modules.
Thank you very much !
Dimithekid
Updating to DEV versions solves only node Date fields problem.
If I add Date field to user profile (admin/config/people/accounts/fields), it does not appears in "Contextual filters" configuraton dialog's checkmarks.
Trying to follow this on newer versions. The only options I have for Contextual Filters are:
Content: Date (field_date) - delta
Content: Date (field_date) - rrule
Content: Date (field_date) - value
Content: Date (field_date) - value2
Content: Date (field_event_date) - value
Content: Date (field_event_date) - value2
Ideas?
Also, I have two sets of calendar views. One populates /calendar page, and loads without errors, one populates view calendar-date and has sql errors. Which module loaded calendar-date views?
I compared the view with Debut Event's views and tried to emulate it with the filter:
Date: Date (node) (Content: Date (field_date) - value)
(x) SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'AS field_data_field_date_, 'node' AS field_data_field_date_node_entity_type FROM' at line 1
Very Great Screen Cast.
Thank you, you've opened my eyes to new things and are a great instructor.
Thank you again.
I've a problem with Calendar.
In Calendar View, the "field_date" created don't appear automatically in contextual filters.
Could you help me, please ?
Hi, I have a similar problem when I try to set contextual filters, I can't access fields date that I creates for my event content type ;
I 'm using Drupal 7.2 with the latest versions of ctools(7.x-1.0-beta1), views(7.x-3.0-beta3), calendar and date(7.x-2.0-alpha1).
may be, there are other configurations..
It will be very helpful if somebody can help
Wonderful tutorial. You did a great job at making the entire effort from installing/activating the modules, to creating the content type and the field(s), to updating the Calendar View very understandable.
I did experience some of the issues stated in the comments, but that has to do with the newness of D7 and the modules for it.
I look forward to seeing more Screencasts from you!
Again thanks,
Alf
Getting
Strict warning: Creating default object from empty value in date_views_filter_handler->init() (line 34 of /opt/lampp/htdocs/drupal_dp/modules/date/date_views/includes/date_views_filter_handler.inc).
Used the same version used in the screencast...
But no idea .. Is it the problem with PHP version .. I am using lampp 1.7.4...
Is this ok ??
Brilliant tutorial! :-D
Nice job, waiting for more
For those who even with current dev modules still have issues (custom date fields are not appearing in the contextual filter 'Date (node)', going to Views > Settings > Advanced > clear views cache helped for me on keek.be
Ann
Thanks. It was so useful, that I will keep coming for more.
Hi,
is there a way to show the remaining days unitl event start?
Fingers crossed.
Have a nice day :)
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