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.

[Trickster303]

Much better than the original!! Works fine in 3.7.0
Thanks

[JadedSouls]

Works like a charm! Thank you - so much nicer on the eyes

[BWJ]

How do I translate WEEK ? (I could not it in the phrases or the templates). I guess I have not searched good enough...

[nautiboy]

Originally Posted by abroad

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

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

[Zachariah]

Modification of the Month
- go Wayne !!

[Mr.619]

Nice but not XHTML valid

[Boofo]

Then you've changed something because it validates fine on my site.

[Mr.619]

I haven't changed anything. There are duplicate specifications of attribute "class".

Example:

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

edit: fixed

[Boofo]

Well, it doesn't show up as a validation error on mine. Try changing that line to this:

<td class="alt2 daybox" height="100" width="$daywidth">

[Wayne Luke]

Originally Posted by BWJ

How do I translate WEEK ? (I could not it in the phrases or the templates). I guess I have not searched good enough...

WEEK is four individual letters in the template. There is no way to phrase this really. You will have to change it in the template.