Default Calendar // Help in tweaking the dateheaders mode

bolish

Hi,

When I’m in dateheaders mode, the fulldayevents are always displayed on the start date.

I would like it to be displayed starting today’s date even if the fulldayevent started days before.

i.e : I’ve a fulldayevent which started on March 6th and finishes tomorrow.
In the dateheaders view, event is displayed on March 6th date. Which I don’t want.
What I would like is to see it in today’s + tomorrow’s header.

I’ve already tried to modify calendar.js line 258 in several ways but don’t manage to get it done. (maybe it’s even not the right line to modify…)

Would appreciate if someone could help me in this! Thanks already.

sdetweil

@bolish

well , it should be one of these two lines, and u might want to make it configurable

/* line 302 */								timeWrapper.innerHTML = this.capFirst(moment(event.startDate, "x").format(this.config.fullDayEventDateFormat));
							}
						} else {
							// show future time relative, start of day to start of day
/* line 306 */							timeWrapper.innerHTML = this.capFirst(moment(event.startDate, "x").from(moment().format("YYYYMMDD")));

and the value should be

moment(now, "x")

instead of

moment(event.startDate, "x")

bolish

Thanks @sdetweil
I will try that.
Nevertheless, it seems strange … because from my understading, everything which is between line 264 and 364 seems to be linked to “not dateheaders” format.

sdetweil

@bolish Ok, headers mode is really primative

it gets the calendar entry as a string
and puts that out…

starting on line 159

	for (var e in events) {
			var event = events[e];
			var dateAsString = moment(event.startDate, "x").format(this.config.dateFormat);
			if(this.config.timeFormat === "dateheaders"){
				if(lastSeenDate !== dateAsString){
					var dateRow = document.createElement("tr");
					dateRow.className = "normal";
					var dateCell = document.createElement("td");

					dateCell.colSpan = "3";
					dateCell.innerHTML = dateAsString;    --------------
					dateRow.appendChild(dateCell);
					wrapper.appendChild(dateRow);

in the area u were looking, it only does that formatting if NOT a full date event

			if(this.config.timeFormat === "dateheaders"){  if YES

				if (event.fullDayEvent) {
					titleWrapper.colSpan = "2";
					titleWrapper.align = "left";
                                        // just fixup the style info, data posted above
				}else{
                                        // NOT fullday event
					var timeClass = this.timeClassForUrl(event.url);
					var timeWrapper = document.createElement("td");
					timeWrapper.className = "time light " + timeClass;
					timeWrapper.align = "left";
					timeWrapper.style.paddingLeft = "2px";
					timeWrapper.innerHTML = moment(event.startDate, "x").format("LT"); //only NOT fullday
					eventWrapper.appendChild(timeWrapper);
					titleWrapper.align = "right";
				}

bolish

hi Sam @sdetweil

I’ve tried following but I believe this is not the way to do it.
It seems I can’t figure out how the dateheaders mode is working…

I “only” want that fulldayevents which started earlier than today stops to be displayed in earlier dates and only starts today…

		for (var e in events) {
			var event = events[e];
			var dateAsString = moment(event.startDate, "x").format(this.config.dateFormat);
			var dateAsString2 = moment(now, "x").format(this.config.dateFormat);
			if(this.config.timeFormat === "dateheaders"){
				if(lastSeenDate !== dateAsString){
					var dateRow = document.createElement("tr");
					dateRow.className = "normal";
					var dateCell = document.createElement("td");

					dateCell.colSpan = "3";
						if (event.fullDayEvent) {
							dateCell.innerHTML = dateAsString2;
							} else {
							date.Cell.innerHTML = dateAsString;
							}
					dateRow.appendChild(dateCell);
					wrapper.appendChild(dateRow);

					if (e >= startFade) {			//fading
						currentFadeStep = e - startFade;
						dateRow.style.opacity = 1 - (1 / fadeSteps * currentFadeStep);
					}

					lastSeenDate = dateAsString;
				}
			}

Don’t you think that it’s maybe something to be added in line 449?

sdetweil

ok, I added an event, and debugged… the change is right there at the top of the loop, line 159

	for (var e in events) {
			var event = events[e];
			var dateAsString = moment(event.startDate, "x").format(this.config.dateFormat);
			if(this.config.timeFormat === "dateheaders"){
				if(lastSeenDate !== dateAsString){
					var dateRow = document.createElement("tr");
					dateRow.className = "normal";
					var dateCell = document.createElement("td");

					dateCell.colSpan = "3";
					dateCell.innerHTML = dateAsString;    < --------------
					dateRow.appendChild(dateCell);
					wrapper.appendChild(dateRow);

I moved the

   var now = new Date()

from line 272
and have this (edited to add space behind the < )

    for (var e in events) {
      var event = events[e];
      var dateAsString = moment(event.startDate, "x").format(this.config.dateFormat);
      var now = new Date();
      if(this.config.timeFormat === "dateheaders"){
        if(lastSeenDate !== dateAsString){
          var dateRow = document.createElement("tr");
          dateRow.className = "normal";
          var dateCell = document.createElement("td");

          dateCell.colSpan = "3";
          if(event.startDate< now){            
            Log.log("calendar, event start before today, end after today "+dateAsString)
            dateAsString= moment(now, "x").format(this.config.dateFormat);
          }          
          dateCell.innerHTML = dateAsString;
          dateRow.appendChild(dateCell);
          wrapper.appendChild(dateRow);

          if (e >= startFade) {			//fading
            currentFadeStep = e - startFade;
            dateRow.style.opacity = 1 - (1 / fadeSteps * currentFadeStep);
          }

          lastSeenDate = dateAsString;
        }
      }

bolish

@sdetweil
Thanks for your support, works fine!

Last thing :

i.e : we are on March 11th.
fulldayevent starts on March 9th and finishes on 13th
Thanks to you, the event only starts to show on 11th.
Unfortunatly, it “only” shows on 11th. not on 12 and 13th.

Looking at how the dateheaders part is written, I believe it’s impossible, correct? (as the event display date is only based on one dateasstring…)