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.

[Wayne Luke]

Originally Posted by nautiboy

I'm having the same issue. I can't create repeating events any more. Is there any way to fix this?

Don't know why this would cause problems with that as it is a purely cosmetic mod. What is the error that you're getting.

[CNibbana]

Originally Posted by Mr.619

There are duplicate specifications of attribute "class".

Example:

<td class="alt2" height="100" width="14%" class="daybox">

Same problem here. Another solution is to simply combine the class attributes:

<td class="alt2 daybox" height="100" width="14%">

Installed. Awesome mod; hope this gets integrated into the official release as it looks so much better than the regular calendar.

[nautiboy]

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

Don't know why this would cause problems with that as it is a purely cosmetic mod. What is the error that you're getting.

Well, I've done some playing around and I've basically figured it out.

Either I'm not remembering how it normally works, or the semantics are different now. It was my recollection that if I wanted to create an event that went from 6-9pm every 2nd wednesday, starting on aug 13th, then I would create an event with start: aug 13 6pm and end aug13 9pm. Then set the recurrence options appropriately. I believe that if I did that with the original calendar implementation it would then show an event from 6pm-9pm every 2nd wednesday. But I don't have the original calendar running now so I can't confirm that.

Regardless, with this calendar mod, if I do that, then it will only show an event on aug 13th. However if I set the end to aug 13th 2009 (i.e., a year from now) at 9pm, then it shows an event from 6pm-9pm every 2nd wednesday until aug 13th 2009.

[crkgb]

Is there any chance of creating an alternate look for the Monthly View. The one based on a Weekly View. Where days go from top to bottom.
Thank You.

[benstillman]

Wow. Works great. Thanks!

[edytwinky]

Nice!

[yotsume]

Does this work on vb3.8x?

[Zachariah]

Originally Posted by yotsume

Does this work on vb3.8x?

Yes it works


[high]* Zachariah raises hand to 2nd the vote for default in vBulletin[/high]

[dholt]

works in 3.8.0 Very nice looking

[Stanthrax]

Hey, just wanted to say I installed this on my site and it looks good. Great mod.