[CalendarX-users] 3 month cal (prev, cur, next), label for prev

[Mike Hammill]

Hello all,

I am trying to modify my multimonth view to include the previous month,
the current month, and the month thereafter. My little hack got me the
three months I want, but there is no "label" for the first month shown;
instead, you see the title for the current month on both the top and
bottom of the whole three-month calendar as usual, which can be a little
disorienting in this particular situation. Exploring the .css files,
it really didn't jump out at me as to where I could add a label for the
first month, or if .css is really the place to begin. Any ideas?

Background:
I'm running CalendarX 0.6.6(stable), Plone 2.1.2, Zope (Zope
2.8.5-final, python 2.3.5, linux2). My little hack was to customize
getDictCommon by creating "mikeoffset" and replacing currentDate with it
as follows:

if viewname == 'multimonth':
mikeoffset = currentDate - 30
startDate = context.getStartOfMonth(mikeoffset)
endDate = context.getEndOfMonth(mikeoffset)
nextDate = (endDate + 1).Date()
prevDate = (startDate - 1).Date()
prevstring = 'previous month'
nextstring = 'next month'
currentstring = str(mikeoffset.Month())+' '+str(mikeoffset.year())
for monthnum in range(nummonths):
midmonth =
DateTime(str(mikeoffset.year())+'/'+str(mikeoffset.month())+'/15')
midmonth += monthnum*30
startDate = context.getStartOfMonth(midmonth)
startDateToShow = context.getStartOfMonthToShow(midmonth)
weeksInMonthToShow = context.getNumWeeksInMonthToShow(midmonth)
endDate = context.getEndOfMonth(midmonth)
endDateToShow = context.getEndOfDay(startDateToShow +
(7*weeksInMonthToShow) - 1)
startDateList.append(startDate)
endDateList.append(endDate)
startDateToShowList.append(startDateToShow)
endDateToShowList.append(endDateToShow)
weeksInMonthToShowList.append(weeksInMonthToShow)

I get a calendar with:

<< previous month October 2006 next month >>

[a calendar for September 2006 here]

October 2006
[a calendar for October 2006 here]

November 2006
[a calendar for November 2006 here]


<< previous month October 2006 next month >>

The header and footer (<< previous month October 2006 next
month >>) are no problem but what I would like is a label "September
2006" before the September calendar, just as there is for October and
November.

Any hints appreciated.
Best regards,
/Mike

[+lupa+]

Hi Mike,
It's easy (and sorry for the delay in answering). It's all in the
macro that gets called by the multimonth.pt template to generate the month
names. As written, if puts a "noshow" class TH tag in if the month == 0
(that is, for the first month on a multimonth calendar).

Go here: CX_props_macros.pt.
Find the macro called: monthnameformultimonths
Change this line:
tal:condition="python:mMonth > 0">
To this:
tal:condition="python:mMonth >= 0">

And remove (or comment out) the noshow TH tag at the bottom of the macro:
<th class="noshow"
tal:attributes="colspan python:7"
tal:condition="python:mMonth == 0"></th>

Of course, you could also just remove the TH noshow and remove the
tal:condition on the main TH tag too.
Looks great!
+lupa+

Post by Mike Hammill
Hello all,
I am trying to modify my multimonth view to include the previous month,
the current month, and the month thereafter. My little hack got me the
three months I want, but there is no "label" for the first month shown;
instead, you see the title for the current month on both the top and
bottom of the whole three-month calendar as usual, which can be a little
disorienting in this particular situation. Exploring the .css files,
it really didn't jump out at me as to where I could add a label for the
first month, or if .css is really the place to begin. Any ideas?
I'm running CalendarX 0.6.6(stable), Plone 2.1.2, Zope (Zope
2.8.5-final, python 2.3.5, linux2). My little hack was to customize
getDictCommon by creating "mikeoffset" and replacing currentDate with it
mikeoffset = currentDate - 30
startDate = context.getStartOfMonth(mikeoffset)
endDate = context.getEndOfMonth(mikeoffset)
nextDate = (endDate + 1).Date()
prevDate = (startDate - 1).Date()
prevstring = 'previous month'
nextstring = 'next month'
currentstring = str(mikeoffset.Month())+' '+str(mikeoffset.year())
midmonth =
DateTime(str(mikeoffset.year())+'/'+str(mikeoffset.month())+'/15')
midmonth += monthnum*30
startDate = context.getStartOfMonth(midmonth)
startDateToShow = context.getStartOfMonthToShow(midmonth)
weeksInMonthToShow = context.getNumWeeksInMonthToShow(midmonth)
endDate = context.getEndOfMonth(midmonth)
endDateToShow = context.getEndOfDay(startDateToShow +
(7*weeksInMonthToShow) - 1)
startDateList.append(startDate)
endDateList.append(endDate)
startDateToShowList.append(startDateToShow)
endDateToShowList.append(endDateToShow)
weeksInMonthToShowList.append(weeksInMonthToShow)
<< previous month October 2006 next month >>
[a calendar for September 2006 here]
October 2006
[a calendar for October 2006 here]
November 2006
[a calendar for November 2006 here]
<< previous month October 2006 next month >>
The header and footer (<< previous month October 2006 next
month >>) are no problem but what I would like is a label "September
2006" before the September calendar, just as there is for October and
November.
Any hints appreciated.
Best regards,
/Mike

[Mike Hammill]

Hi +lupa+!

Yes, you're right: your suggestions works and it looks great! Thanks
for the tip!

Best regards,
/Mike

PS I think you asked about seeing what sort of calendars we came up
with using CalendarX for our summer school in high-performance
computing. I never got around to fixing the problem of event locations
not showing up in the printed version, and I didn't quite have the
sub-calendar thing working quite right either. Thus, with a bit of
embarrassment (user error/neglect only; CalendarX performed great):

http://gannet.pdc.kth.se:8080/ss2006/schedule
(under "Calendar of Events")