By frankywi on

Hello!

I am using the event module to handle meetings. Each meeting has a start time and an end time - as the event module affects.
I now created a view to show all past meetings in a nice table view - works no prob.

But I would like to modify the fields of that view. By default I get the Event Start Time, End Time and Timezone as values. I would like to add a field that just show the day (ok could be start time plus some options that are unknown to me) and a field that show "starttime - endtime". Hence I would like to have in my table
12/24/2007 | 10:00 - 15:00 instead of 12/24/2007 10:00 | 12/24/2007 15:00.

To me the idea of adding fields, ideally maybe as DB queries, sounds great - but I do not know if this is possible and if possible where to add them.

Any ideas and tipps?

Thank you all!

Frank

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Comments

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nevets commented

You could override theme_date_display_combination($field, $dates, $node = NULL) by placing

phptemplate_date_display_combination($field, $dates, $node = NULL) {
  $date1 = $dates['value']['formatted'];
  $date2 = $dates['value2']['formatted'];
  
  if (empty($date1) && empty($date2)) {
    return '';
  }
  elseif ($date1 == $date2 || empty($date2)) {
    return '<span class="date-display-single">'. $date1 .'</span>';
  }
  else {
	  $start = $dates['value']['object']->local->timestamp;
  	$end = $dates['value']['object']->local->timestamp;

		$start_day = format_date($start, 'custom', 'M d Y');
		$end_day = format_date($end, 'custom', 'M d Y');
				
		if ( $start_day == $end_day ) {
			$parts = explode(' ', $date2);
			$count = count($parts);
			
    	return '<span class="date-display-single">'. $date1 . ' - ' . $parts[$count-1] .'</span>';		
		}
		else {
    	return '<span class="date-display-start">'. $date1 .'</span><span class="date-display-separator"> - </span><span class="date-display-end">'. $date2 .'</span>';
    }
  }
}

in your themes template.php file.

Note you may want to make sure the the format is correct. This theme function depends on the version of the date module you are using, look for theme_date_display_combination() in date.module to check.