BN_IT_Support Posted December 21, 2015 Posted December 21, 2015 Does anyone know if there is a way to create a feed block to pull just the featured events from a calendar and sort then by start date please. Even a way to filter and sort in the actual content template would be helpful. Thanks
BN_IT_Support Posted May 11, 2016 Author Posted May 11, 2016 I just searched for 'calendar feed featured' and the only result was my own topic Bump
Nathan Explosion Posted May 11, 2016 Posted May 11, 2016 Do some prep......in Pages, create a new plugin Block based on the "Calendar->Upcoming Events". Populate the details in there (up to you) but on the Content tab, change the 'use this template as-is' field to 'Use as a base for a custome template' Save it. I'll be back in a little while with the code to put in, once I've ironed out a couple of things.
Nathan Explosion Posted May 11, 2016 Posted May 11, 2016 This will get you started - put this in as the content code. Following caveat applies: if there are no featured events then it will still display if there are any upcoming events (as it is based on that block, and $events is a list of all upcoming events, including featured ones) so the 'Automatically hide...' option on the block won't work as you expect it. But if you always have a featured event in the future, then nothing to worry about <h3 class='ipsType_reset ipsWidget_title'>Featured Events</h3> <div class='ipsWidget_inner'> {{if $orientation == 'vertical'}} <div class='ipsPad_half'> {{endif}} {{if !empty( $events ) }} {{$featuredevents = false;}} {{foreach $events as $event}} {{if $event->featured}} {{$featuredevents = true;}} {{endif}} {{endforeach}} {{if $featuredevents}} <ul class='ipsDataList ipsDataList_reducedSpacing'> {{foreach $events as $event}} {{if $event->featured}} <li class='ipsDataItem ipsClearfix'> <div class='ipsDataItem_icon cCalendar_date_overlay'> <time datetime='{$event->nextOccurrence( $today, 'startDate' )->mysqlDatetime()}' class='ipsCalendarDate'> <span class='ipsCalendarDate_month'>{$event->nextOccurrence( $today, 'startDate' )->monthNameShort}</span> <span class='ipsCalendarDate_date'>{$event->nextOccurrence( $today, 'startDate' )->mday}</span> </time> </div> <div class='ipsDataItem_main ipsType_break ipsContained'> {{if $event->container()->allow_comments && $orientation == 'vertical'}} <div class="ipsCommentCount ipsPos_right {{if $event->comments === 0}}ipsFaded{{endif}}" data-ipsTooltip title='{lang="replies_number" pluralize="$event->comments"}'>{expression="$event->comments"}</div> {{endif}} <a href="{$event->url()}" title='{lang="view_this_event" sprintf="$event->title"}'>{$event->title}</a><br> <strong class='ipsType_small'> {{if $event->nextOccurrence( $today, 'startDate' )}} {$event->nextOccurrence( $today, 'startDate' )->calendarDate()}{{if !$event->all_day}} {$event->nextOccurrence( $today, 'startDate' )->localeTime( FALSE )} {{endif}} {{if $event->nextOccurrence( $event->nextOccurrence( $today, 'startDate' ) ?: $today, 'endDate' ) }} {{if $orientation == 'vertical'}}<br>{{endif}} <span class='ipsType_light ipsType_unbold'>{lang="until"}</span>{{if $orientation == 'vertical'}}<br>{{endif}} {$event->nextOccurrence( $event->nextOccurrence( $today, 'startDate' ) ?: $today, 'endDate' )->calendarDate()}{{if !$event->all_day}} {$event->nextOccurrence( $event->nextOccurrence( $today, 'startDate' ) ?: $today, 'endDate' )->localeTime( FALSE )}{{endif}} {{endif}} {{else}} {$event->lastOccurrence( 'startDate' )->calendarDate()}{{if !$event->all_day}} {$event->lastOccurrence( 'startDate' )->localeTime( FALSE )} {{endif}} {{if $event->lastOccurrence( 'endDate' ) }} {{if $orientation == 'vertical'}}<br>{{endif}} <span class='ipsType_light ipsType_unbold'>{lang="until"}</span>{{if $orientation == 'vertical'}}<br>{{endif}} {$event->lastOccurrence( 'endDate' )->calendarDate()}{{if !$event->all_day}} {$event->lastOccurrence( 'endDate' )->localeTime( FALSE )}{{endif}} {{endif}} {{endif}} </strong> <br> {{if $event->container()->allow_comments && $orientation == 'horizontal'}} <span class="{{if $event->comments === 0}}ipsFaded{{endif}}" data-ipsTooltip title='{lang="replies_number" pluralize="$event->comments"}'><i class='fa fa-comment'></i> {expression="$event->comments"}</span> {{endif}} {{if $orientation == 'horizontal'}} <div class='ipsType_medium ipsType_richText' data-ipsTruncate data-ipsTruncate-type='remove' data-ipsTruncate-size='2 lines'> {$event->truncated()|raw} </div> {{endif}} </div> </li> {{endif}} {{endforeach}} </ul> {{endif}} {{else}} <div class='ipsType_light ipsPad_half ipsType_center'>{lang="no_upcoming_events"}</div> {{endif}} {{if $orientation == 'vertical'}} </div> {{endif}} </div> I'll see if I can come up with the same thing in a custom block, which we can then tweak to not display in the above situation.
BN_IT_Support Posted May 11, 2016 Author Posted May 11, 2016 Damn I didn't think of that - thank you. I managed to strip it down even further: <h3 class='ipsType_reset ipsWidget_title'>{lang="block_upcomingEvents"}</h3> <div class='ipsWidget_inner'> {{if $orientation == 'vertical'}} <div class='ipsPad_half'> {{endif}} {{if !empty( $events ) }} <ul class='ipsDataList ipsDataList_reducedSpacing'> {{foreach $events as $event}} {{if $event->featured}} ... {{endif}} {{endforeach}} </ul> {{else}} <div class='ipsType_light ipsPad_half ipsType_center'>{lang="no_upcoming_events"}</div> {{endif}} {{if $orientation == 'vertical'}} </div> {{endif}} </div> You could actually just wrap the whole thing in another... {{if !empty( $events ) }} ... {{endif}} ... which would effectively output nothing apart possibly some blank space. Really grateful for your help - very much appreciated - and If you can get a custom block working then that would be great. Happy face now
Nathan Explosion Posted May 11, 2016 Posted May 11, 2016 Yeah but I put in the little look for $featuredevents to avoid it doing an unnecessary <ul></ul> tag...but if you then wrap it up in that further code, and output nothing then all good. As I said though....it was to get your started. Ultimately, your choice what code goes in there. Will see what I can do with a custom block though.
BN_IT_Support Posted May 11, 2016 Author Posted May 11, 2016 9 minutes ago, Nathan Explosion said: Yeah but I put in the little look for $featuredevents to avoid it doing an unnecessary <ul></ul> tag...but if you then wrap it up in that further code, and output nothing then all good. As I said though....it was to get your started. Ultimately, your choice what code goes in there. Will see what I can do with a custom block though. Good point about the <ul></ul> tag. Is there any documentation on the various attributes for each class? I was looking at getting at event_featured from the database but it is presumably getting loaded as $event->featured
Nathan Explosion Posted May 11, 2016 Posted May 11, 2016 Look at the rest api reference information in the ACP.
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