MMM-CalendarExt3 fine tuning

[csongor.varga 0]

Hi All,

I am making very good progress with the MMM-CalendarExt3, there are only a few things that are odd:

• The calendar is not showing any past events, which just makes all this wasted space on the screen. Is that a setting?
• I have configured maxEventLines: 8. On Monday there are 5 entries, but still I can see a +1 icon in the cell why is that? If there are more events, why not showing them?

The configuration looks like this:

		{
			module: "MMM-CalendarExt3",
			position: "bottom_bar",
			title: "This Week",
			config: {
			    mode: "week",
			    instanceId: "basicCalendar",
			    locale: 'hu-HU',
			    maxEventLines: 8,
			    firstDayOfWeek: 1,
			    weekIndex: 0,
			    weeksInView: 2,
			    useWeather: false,
			    skipDuplicated: true,
			    useSymbol: false,
			    calendarSet: ['Csongor', 'Iza']
			}
		},

Thanks in advance.

[sdetweil]

@csongor-varga-0 Ext3 gets its events from the default calendar module.

by default it does not send out past events

so you have to add

broadcastPastEvents:true,

to the config for the default calendar.

now this adds to the events list, which is limited by the

maximumEntires: nnnn

setting. so you may have to increase that too

[csongor.varga 0]

@sdetweil said in MMM-CalendarExt3 fine tuning:

@csongor-varga-0 Ext3 gets its events from the default calendar module.
by default it does not send out past events

Thanks a lot. That was the solution. I can see the past events now, the +1 icons are still appearing on some days where clearly I have less items than the maximum.
I assume the best practice is to keep maximumEntires: 12, on the calendar module, and maxEventLines: 12, on the Ext3 aligned.

[sdetweil]

@csongor-varga-0 said in MMM-CalendarExt3 fine tuning:

maximumEntires: 12

you might need

maximumEntries:1000,
depending on how much old stuff there is in your calendar

I would set it to minimum of 100

[sdetweil]

@csongor-varga-0 said in MMM-CalendarExt3 fine tuning:

the +1 icons are still appearing on some days where clearly I have less items than the maximum

that is an Ext3 display thing… I don’t know… the module author is around frequently

[csongor.varga 0]

I wonder if there are options to make the calendar taller.
I am planning to use my MMM portrait. and with the week view the individual days get quite slim. Maybe each calendar entry take 2 lines, icon and the date on the top line, and the description below. I can increase the vertical size of the module to take up the extra space.

[MMRIZE]

@csongor-varga-0

• For the multilines events; not naturally. It is designed so intentionally. I know it is probably possible with heavy CSS tweak but I will not do or try it by myself.
• For the (+1) : There might be hidden(skipped) events. (You’ve set skipDuplicated: true)