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By cjeanson on
So I have been tasked with making the event calendar listing a little more spicy. Instead of a generic title and date, I have been asked to make it possible to have the body of the event display so that people can list off a month's events and then print them off and be good to go.
I found something at this url which I think would work and has some nice results but unfortunately I am not big into Views (although I wish I had the time to spend understanding it and using it more) so I have some questions.
The URL BTW is: http://drupalsn.com/learn-drupal/drupal-tutorials/events-listing-system-...
Anyway, I followed part 1 and 2 and for the most part it went exactly as outlined. I think due to version changes some things were a little different, but once I finish part 2...it says we should now have an events listing working.
However, I don't really know where to go now that I have completed part 2.
If someone can either let me know how out to lunch I am, or if there is a better way to make a nicer list view in the event module (or something that can use Views to accomplish the same thing) I would greatly appreciate it!
Thanks
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The more I look at this
The more I look at this tutorial that I found the more I think that this won't be great for a calendar already full of events, because we won't have data that will link to the fields that we set up. Indeed I don't see any fields that event creates relating to start and end dates...but I could be wrong in this.
Good Screencast on Views/Date/Calendar Module
A few weeks ago, I found a pretty good tutorial on using V/D/C modules to make event listings:
http://www.drupaltherapy.com/node/76
I have yet to find a video/tutorial that goes a bit deeper. A lot of others just scrape the surface, but hardly make a mention of how to make an events system look good, and this is where I'm getting really frustrated. It seems like it should be a simple setup, but apparently it's not (though I am newer to Drupal).
Ideally, I'm looking for something like this at SFReporter:
http://sfreporter.com/events/today
Calendar Block on the side, click a day to see the events for that day, narrow down by type, find your event. Boom.
I know that doesn't help you too much there cjeanon, but hopefully this spurs a little more discussion on the issue.