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D Collins asked on February 26, 2014 12:35

I'm looking at using the CMS Calendar and event booking system to put a little "Important Dates" gadget on my intranet. I'm not looking for users to book events, I'm simply looking to post dates to remind them. (eg. Oct 31: Hallowe'en, Aug 4: Company Picnic, etc.).

I've been copying the calendar from the corp site example. I don't want the whole calendar, just the events summary. Here's my transform:

<tr class="Event">
<td class='event-date'>
  <%# GetEventDateString(FormatDateTime(Eval("EventDate"), "MMM d"),FormatDateTime(Eval("EventEndDate"), "MMM d"),Eval<bool>("EventAllDay")) %>
</td>
<td class='event-name'>
  <a href="<%# GetDocumentUrl() %>">
    <%# Eval("EventName", true) %>
  </a>
</td>
</tr>

I'm having trouble with a couple of things, in decreasing order of need:

formatting the date string to MMM d. I don't find any documentation on GetEventDateString(). The FormatDateTime I have above is just ignored, and it displays the standard M/dd/yyyy hh:mm AP
I'd like to page the events, so that I only see one month at a time, with a ' < ThisMonth > ' nav bar to go back and forth just like an actual calendar has.
not sure what to do with the EventEndDate and AllDay fields... maybe leave them out. Maybe leave Time out too.

(Wow, that bold is really bold...)

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D Collins answered on February 26, 2014 12:38

Oops. I didn't notice how sparse the subject line was until it was too late to edit. Should have been more like 'booking events list formatting'

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Juraj Ondrus answered on February 27, 2014 01:47

Hi,

If you want to use just the Event data field, you can remove the GetEventDateString functions and use just this: <%# FormatDateTime(Eval("NewsReleaseDate"),"MMM d") %>
This would require some customization. If I understand this correctly, the events will be displayed by some repeater and you want to restrict it to one month, right? In this case, you can add for example a query string to the URL with month value. Then, the repeater will read this query string using a macro in the WHERE condition and filter out events only for given month.
I think it is answered in no.1 where you can simplify the date rendering.

Best regards,
Juraj Ondrus

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