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.

[Reeve of shinra]

very clean looking!

[Wayne Luke]

Originally Posted by nurawtek

I installed this and now the header in my forum is gone the logo still shows but the header section and the navbit is not looking how it is suppossed to how can I fix this my forum: http://www.bassaddict.net

This shouldn't touch any templates outside the Calendar group. I can't recreate the problem. Though I see you uninstalled it. The change may be incompatible with your custom style.

[glorify]

Installed on all 3 of my styles. Just makes sense and looks great. Thanx.

[Tungsten]

Nicely done! *installed*

[gator777]

Installed! I would like to see the date numbers larger and bolded to stand out more. They are the same size as the birtdays and do not stand out at their current size. How would I do this?

Edited:

[Wayne Luke]

Edit the CSS that is included in the first post. It controls the look of the date numbers in the calendar view. If you didn't add the CSS yet, add it to the second (lower) Additional CSS Definitions box under MainCSS. I didn't want to put it inline and people often customize their CSS.

I have them set at 115% with today set at 130% of the normal size. You can increase those values, make them bold, change the font all by editing the two CSS classes.

#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;}

[IvyKeepMommy]

I've installed this and now Farcaster's RSVP system is no longer accepting RSVP's (It shows who has already RSVP'd but won't let anyone new RSVP or change their existing responses).

Any thoughts on why this happened or how I can fix it? I've tried reinstalling the RSVP system and that hasn't worked.

[IvyKeepMommy]

Well, I'm not quite sure why, but the only way I could get the RSVP system to work again was to revert all the calendar templates and reinstall the RSVPS all over again.

[Wayne Luke]

I don't use Farcaster's system anymore but if he is rewriting the monthly view template than there might be a conflict. I don't really see how though as this has absolutely no PHP code behind it and is just template edits to the month view.

[IvyKeepMommy]

If I try and reinstall again, is there a quick way to undo the template edits? I really like the design