Calendar Enhancements - Updated Monthly Calendar View

A collection of Calendar Modifications

The monthly calendar in the default style is crowded and blocky with the day names on each row, unlabeled week view markers on the left and various other stylistic choices that make it fairly unusable. With this collection of modifications, I am aiming to make it more usable and present a better monthly view.

Some of the features include:

• Single header row with the days of the week.
• Better date boxes which have a square instead of a rectangular layout. More like a standard calendar view.
• Easier to see highlighting of the current dates.
• Previous month and next month dates removed for better viewing.
• Link to the Weekly view on the left of each row distinctly says "WEEK".

Installation
Merge the style.xml file into each style you want to apply the changes to. This will only work on styles with unedited calendar templates. To do this follow these steps:

1. Go to Styles & Templates -> Download / UploadStyles.
2. In the Upload form, browse to the monthly_calendar.xml file
3. For the Merge Into Style choose the style that these changes should be applied on.
4. Tell the system to ignore the version number (just in case).
5. Click Import.
6. Repeat for each additional style.

You may need to add the following four lines to the second box under MainCSS -> Additional CSS Definitions:

#highlight { padding:0px; border:1px solid red; font-weight:bold }
#calendar_today {background-color:transparent;color:red;font-size: 130%;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold;}
.daybox {padding:0px}
#calendar_date {font-size: 115%;font-style:italic;}

This would only need to be done if you have made modifications to the CSS here in the past.

Updates:
20080121 - Removed template edit that was conflicting with Farcaster's Event Signup Modification found at here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=129088

Support provided in this thread only to people who marked install.

[Boofo]

It only deletes (replaces, actually) the Additional CSS entries. Just make a backup text file of anything you have in there and re-add it after installing this.

[abroad]

Installed it but if I create an "Recurring Event" the event is only saved on the first day but not at the following weeks

[Caerydd]

Originally Posted by abroad

Installed it but if I create an "Recurring Event" the event is only saved on the first day but not at the following weeks

I get this issue too. I think perhaps follow up events would appear after each current week expires. Is this not the case?

[nerofix]

It has destroyed my header too :-(

I'm trying now to find a way to get my header back ..

Now I see why: it has deleted all my "(Customized in this Style)" CSS .. This should not happens Wayne!

[Boofo]

If you would have been reading the thread you would have seen this has happened to a few others and that you should back up your Additional CSS items. It's a good idea to keep a text file backup of those, anyway.

[nerofix]

I made a backup of my style before (I thought) .. but it just made a backup of Master Style and seems there's no "Customized in this Style" include.

When importing the calendar style, it should not delete existing CSS if possible, it should only add the calendar CSS.

If it's not possible to keep existing CSS, then there should be a special info about in the install instructions.

Lucky me I had a 2 months old backup copy of my style, although its outdated, it saved my day.

[Boofo]

Granted, but making a backup in a simple text file of your Additional CSS items can save the day. It could happen again in another hack, you never know. I have learned the hard way to back up things like that just in case.

[abroad]

and what about the events? Can I not set up an event for every week automatically anymore? Only single day event?

[abroad]

any news about the ranged events???? I mean it makes no sence to have a nice calendar view if the calendar is not working anymore...?!?

[CrashPush]

Really cool thanks.