Creating a Calendar with Categories

Request Type: 
General Assistance
Forums: 
Content Types and Views
Author: 
Devin Maloney
Issue/Request: 

Hi,

I am currently working on a calendar for the AA&D Hub. I have been using the calendar on FLY’s website as an example. We would like to create a calendar that displays upcoming events (exactly how the precreated view is set up) however we would also like to display the events by category similar to FLY’s website. I have set up vocabulary for each of the categories and created test events in the calendar. Currently, when you click on the taxonomy term is brings you to an unformatted page (see below).

When we click on the taxonomy term (event category) we would like it to bring one to a page simlar to the page below. What is the best way to create a calendar similar to this?

Thanks
-Devin Maloney

Alyssa DeChiaro on December 4, 2018:

Hi Devin,

I think I got this to match the FLY site - can you please confirm?

Alyssa

Devin Maloney on December 4, 2018:

Hi Alyssa,

Thanks for doing this so quickly. It looks exactly as we envisioned. Would you be able to provide me instructions on how to accomplish this if I need to recreate this on a different site?

Thanks
-Devin

Alyssa DeChiaro on December 4, 2018:

Yes, I was able to copy the view from the FLY site so you can copy the view from your site if you need to reference it again.

I also enabled the default Taxonomy view which is this one https://aadhub.yale.edu/admin/structure/views/view/taxonomy_term/edit. The one that I had to create is this one: https://aadhub.yale.edu/admin/structure/views/view/taxonomy_term_rewrite…

Devin Maloney on December 4, 2018:

Hi Alyssa,

Thanks for providing this information. One other calendar related question for you. Where would I go to change the name of the calendar? Right now the name is simply “calendar” if we choose to change the name to “Events” for instance. How would I do this?

Thanks

-Devin

Alyssa DeChiaro on December 5, 2018:

Are you referring to the Breadcrumbs on the page? i.e Home > Calendar > Test Event

Devin Maloney on December 5, 2018:

Hi Alyssa,

Sorry for not being clearer. I was wondering how one might change the URL of the calendar page. I know by default it is set as /calendar. Also I was adjusting the breadcrumbs a little yesterday and was struggling to figure out where to adjust the breadcrumb for category pages you adjusted yesterday. These page display the breadcrumb “Taxonomy Term.” Custom breadcrumbs looks like it only allows you adjust the breadcrumb of a node so how would I go about making this change?

Thanks again for all of your help.

-Devin

Devin Maloney on December 5, 2018:

Hi Alyssa,

I was just looking at the calendar you have been helping me with. I noticed that the upcoming events tab is formatted differently that the other tabs. I could not find when comparing the view to the calendar view on another site. How to do I resolve this issue?

Upcoming Events tab:

Month Tab:

Thanks
-Devin

Alyssa DeChiaro on December 6, 2018:

We’ll look into this.

Devin Maloney on December 10, 2018:

Hi Alyssa,

I was playing around on the calendar today and actually found the problem that was causing the formatting issues with the tabs in the calendar. I was also able to change the url to reflect the name of the calendar (aadhub.yale.edu/trainingevents-calendar).

There are a couple of issues I was unable to figure out on my own. We are hoping to have the calendar implemented by December 21st so I was hoping that you would have the time to help me before that date.

  1. Adding a sort by mechanisim to the recently added tab similar to the taxonomy pages. Similar to Fly’s website. I looked at the taxonomy pages you helped me to create but could not figure out what information controled this mechanism.

     

  2. Formatting the taxonomy pages so they look similar to the calendar pages. They seem to be styled a bit differently and I could not find what was controlling the styling.
  3. Adusting the breadcrumbs on the taxonomy pages so they appear properly - currently say “Home > Taxonomy Term.” How to I change this to “Training and events calendar.”

     

Thanks for all of your help!

-Devin

Alyssa DeChiaro on December 11, 2018:

Hi Devin,

It looks like you got the Recently Added tab working already. I’ll look into the formatting and breadcrumbs.

Alyssa

Alyssa DeChiaro on December 11, 2018:

Breadcrumbs are all set by using the Path Breadcrumbs module.

Devin Maloney on December 11, 2018:

Hi Alyssa,

Thank you so much for your help! I will keep an eye out for your email about fixing the formatting.

Thanks
-Devin

Alyssa DeChiaro on January 2, 2019:

Hey Devin,

Sorry the delayed response. Did you still need assistance with this? I took a look at the site and looks like the format was switched to a list instead of a table.

Alyssa

Devin Maloney on January 2, 2019:

Hi Alyssa,

Thanks for checking in. I think I am all set on the calendar for now. Thanks for all of your help.

Thanks
-Devin