Catalog Calendar View

The Calendar View is currently experimental!  It may be subject to change in future versions (in fact, we will probably break out the search form and integrate that with finder - a much cleaner solution).

This view displays a paginated list of items based on their start and finish publishing dates.  The links will take you to the Node View.

Parameters

The following parameters are available in this view:

Basic

• Class Filter - Only display items in a particular class.
• Base Category - Use this category as a base for the Category Filter that is displayed in the view.
• Ordering - The default order in which to display the items.
• Calendar Range - The default date range of items to display.

Advanced

• Show Nodes in Categories - Display the list of categories that each item (node) is in.
• Show Node Subtitle - Display the subtitle for each item (node) in the list.
• Show Nodes in Categories (Node View) - When you click on a link to an item, display the list of categories that the actual item (node) is in on that page.
• Show Node Subtitle (Node View) - When you click on a link to an item, display the subtitle that the actual item (node) on that page.
• Include Default Stylesheet - Include the default stylesheet that comes with Catalog for this view.

Layout Variations

This view only comes with a default layout.

Layout Overrides

We cannot cater for all the possible combinations and variations by just using parameters.  Therefore we leave it up to the site owner to use layout overrides to provide additional customisation of the supplied layout(s).

To create a layout override for this module, copy one or more of the following files that you want to modify:

/components/com_catalog/views/calendar/tmpl/default.php

/components/com_catalog/views/calendar/tmpl/default_legend.php

/components/com_catalog/views/calendar/tmpl/default_row.php

/components/com_catalog/views/calendar/tmpl/default_search.php

/components/com_catalog/views/calendar/tmpl/default_stepmonths.php

to

/templates/your_template/html/com_catalog/calendar/default.php

/templates/your_template/html/com_catalog/calendar/default_legend.php

/templates/your_template/html/com_catalog/calendar/default_row.php

/templates/your_template/html/com_catalog/calendar/default_search.php

/templates/your_template/html/com_catalog/calendar/default_stepmonths.php

respectively, where your_template is the name of the directory for the default template you have set for your site.  Make any adjustments to this new file.  Never make changes to the original file as you risk loosing them when you upgrade this extension.

Additional Comments

You do not have to use the Default Stylesheet.  You can instead use your own markup in a Layout Override, or include style with your template stylesheets if that suits your purposes better.