MMM-CalendarExt2

[Mariba]

Hello,
I’m really satisfied with this module. Thank you.
Although, I’m facing an issue. I want to display two calendars in the same view and same scene. The calendars just won’t show. It works individually but not together.

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My config:

{
module: 'MMM-CalendarExt2',
config: {
calendars: [
{
name: "Regular",
url: "My URL",
},
{
name: "University",
url: "my URL",
},
],
views: [
{
title: "Calendar",
mode: "daily", fromNow:2, slotCount:2,
type: "row",
position: "upper_third",
calendars: ["Regular", "University"],
},
],
scenes: [
{
name: "DEFAULT",
},
],
},
},

My CSS:

body {
 
 }
 
/* .CX2 .slot .event {
background: inherit;
 }*/
 
 .CX2 .slot .slotHeader {
background-color: inherit;
text-transform: uppercase;
font-size: 12px;
font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
color: #999;
 }

.CX2 .event[data-calendar-name="Regular"] {
border-left: #0098e9 solid;
}

.CX2 .event[data-calendar-name="University"] {
border-left: #60bb41 solid;
}

[mrmagoo_83]

Don’t you need to call out the view name the scene?

[A Former User]

@Mariba
Well, I haven’t inspected your code yet, but most of the cases, it would be maxItems issue of view. For the performance, default maxItems of view is set to 100. If your calendars might have many events, set that option to a bigger value. You can estimate the number needed with your serverside log.

[BKeyport]

@Sean Neither of those are what I would want. No matter how many items I have, there is a space there. I want to rid myself of the excess blank space, so that I can fit more real items into the display. When the day is empty there is very little space between days.

[Mariba]

@Sean Hello,
I tried with maxItems set to 10. I’m definitely sure that I dont have more than 8 items with the calendars combined. It still doesn’t solve the problem.

[mrmagoo_83]

How does one replace a parentheses in the title of an event?

[BKeyport]

@mrmagoo_83 Regex would be “\(” and “\)” to find both.

[A Former User]

@BKeyport

[A Former User]

@Mariba

It still doesn’t solve the problem.

In that case, I should have real data to inspect.

[mmmmh]

I have two views in one scene and need some layout/styling help. One row view shows the next 7 days and a column should show as many events as possible from 8 days onwards (a preview). For more precise placement, I created my own regions and added them to the index.html template.

The next-7-days daily view is at the bottom of the screen and behaves nicely. The preview column is in the center of the screen and regrettably runs over the next-7-days view.

In a daily column view, how can I skip days without events?

Which style element do I need to modify in custom.css to have the column content to stop at precise coordinates and not spill over other modules?

I tried limiting the region either with a bottom-margin or height value, both do not apply.

Here’s the style that doesn’t work

.region .preview {
    border: 1px #831e4d solid;
    position: absolute;
    left: 480px;
    width: 400px;
    top: 390px;
    height: 550px;
}

[A Former User]

@mmmmh

1. Give your view className to control more precisely.
   For example,

{
  title: "Remove Empty Slot",
  name: "DailyView",
  mode: "daily",
  calendars: [],
  position:"top_left",
  hideOverflow: false,
  slotCount: 7,
  className: "remove_empty_slot"
},

Then modify your css/custom.css

.CX2 .remove_empty_slot .eventCount_0 {
  display:none;
}

[mmmmh]

@Sean That works nicely for skipping days without events, thanks.

What can I do about the overlap of the content. I can’t limit the view height in the config file or in the class style.

[A Former User]

@mmmmh
can u tell me more details? even picture would be a help to understand your expect.

[BKeyport]

@Sean You know, I was just wondering how to get rid of empty days. Thanks!

[mmmmh]

@Sean said in MMM-CalendarExt2:

@mmmmh
can u tell me more details? even picture would be a help to understand your expect.

Here’s an example (I disabled other modules).

[A Former User]

@mmmmh
You can set hideOverflow:true and slotMaxHeight:100px. If your view has 5 slots(with column type), The height of the view will be (100 + @) * 5. @ would be some additional elements like some margins or title area. Anyway, with this calculation, you can adjust and estimate the height of the view somehow.
Or you can put this 2 view in same position(bottom_bar?), in that case, the views will be stacked not overlapped. The order will be what you ordered in configuration.

Or, just use another position like bottom_bar and top_right.

[mmmmh]

@Sean
Thanks for the constructive help. I was already using different positions. Stacking within the same position doesn’t really work:

Slot limiting (and two different positions) seems to be (closer to) what I want to accomplish:

Another workaround would probably be to work with separate instances of the module.

[A Former User]

@mmmmh
In your picture (trial for stacking),
You probably have trouble with styling a daily view. I think it is about the view’s location and width. In that case, you can assign className to control specific view details with CSS.

[mmmmh]

@Sean
Thanks for the remark. Stacking in the same position but with a different (additional) class for the column kinda works but there is still overlap (in this instance I am not limiting the slot height and count in the column, I would like to have as many entries as possible in the column):

[mmmmh]

I found a workaround. I made the background of the lower part black. : )

In the last screenshot Thu. 28 takes up so much space, even when I enable hideOverflow. I think have to remove some hardcoded 150px in .slotContent but I can’t get to it.