Configuration Reference¶

Installation¶

As you are reading this manual, I will assume that you just downloaded my extension. First of all: thanks, I hope this will help you.

After you installed the extension, some things have to be done. First you should create a folder in the Typo3 page tree that will contain all the events. I recommend to name this "Events", as the user can then easily find the right place to put the events in.

Now you should place the calendar plugin in the frontend, so your users can see the events. Simply add a new content-element to the page you want to place the calendar on and choose the plugin "Calendar".

First you define the view mode, most of the time you may choose "Month", which results in the standard month-view. The mode "Month (simple)" can be used to place the calendar in a small space, e.g. a sidebar, it results in a mont-view without all the buttons and with smaller fields.

The option "Reacting to GET-parameters" is useful if you place the simplified month-view in the sidebar. When the user navigates to the page where the full-size calender is shown and clicks a day to get to the day-view-mode, both the main-version and the sidebar-version of the plugin would react to the parameters and display the day view. This would probably ruin the sidebar layout, as the day view takes as much space as normal content. To prevent this, uncheck the "Reacting to GET-parameters" option in the sidebar-instance of the plugin and the sidebar plugin will stay in simplified month mode.

Now you have to set the option "Target page". This tells the plugin where the primary calendar is shown. The buttons and links in the calender will all lead to this page. In case the primary calendar is on the page you are editing, you can leave this empty.

Finally you should define where the events are stored with the option "Event-Storage". This is the "Events" folder you just created.

Now the calendar basically is up and running. You may add the calendar plugin to the sidebar, I recommend the view-mode "Month (simple)" and the "Reacting to GET-parameters" option unchecked. Now you are ready to go.

Configuration¶

In the extension manager, you do some configuration for the extension. There you can configure the default date and time format and define how many events should be displayed per page in the list view. There you can also deactivate the inclusion of standard CSS and provide the calendar with custom templates.