how do add year labels to the events list?

[Anonymous]

so, my events list of course looks like this

Feb 17 some event

Feb 20 some other event

Mar 5 another event

Apr 1 yet another

for past events, it’s really long. is there a way to break it up by printing year labels (or maybe month/year), ie:

Jan 20 mom’s birthday

Jan 1 ny day

= 2010 EVENTS =

Dec 25 xmas

Nov 23 t-giving

Oct 31 halloween

…

Jan 5 dinner date

= 2009 EVENTS =

Dec 25 xmas

?? thanks guys.

[Franky]

Yearly showperiod wasn’t possible until now, has been implemented in trunk

[Anonymous]

You’re amazing. Thanks much.

Incidentally, what’s your rough release schedule … I’m not in a hurry, just wondering how often these things get pushed as updates.

Thanks, Franky, hope you are well!

[Anonymous]

How about a monthly grouping, such as:

January

Event 1

Event 2

February

Event 1

Event 2

March

Event 1

Event 2

for at least 3 months? any way to do this?

[Franky]

A new release is around the corner, I just want to integrate some small things.

For the monthly grouping: see http://www.e-dynamics.be/wordpress/?cat=18 : showperiod=monthly will help you there (the yearly option isn’t documented yet, because not yet released).

[Anonymous]

Thanks Franky! That did it, exactly!

[Anonymous]

oh, one more thing on this…

I’d like to put the event list into a table format for some nice columns, rather than the default <li> format. And this works by having:

<tr><td>#M #j#S</td><td>#_LINKEDNAME</td><td>#_TOWN</td></tr>

in the “Default event list format” and having <table> in the “…header” and </table> in the “…footer”.

But as soon as I use showperiod=monthly and have ‘F’ as the “Monthly period date format”, I get <li class='eme_period'>March</li>, which breaks the table. Any way to replace the “li” part, so that I can use <tr><td>? I don’t mind if the class stays in there.

[Franky]

For now you’re stuck with this … please open a feature request for this.

For the rest: try to use li for now, and use some clever CSS-ing.

[Anonymous]

Ok, I’ll open a request for this. For now, I’ve done as you suggested and used CSS to do it. For anyone else needing this, here’s how I did it:

This goes in the “Default event list format” box:

<li>

<div class="row col1">#M #j#S</div>

<div class="row col2">#_LINKEDNAME</div>

<div class="row col3">#_TOWN</div>

</li>

The CSS to go with it:

.eme_events_list li {

list-style-type: none;

margin-bottom: 5px;

color: #000;

font-size: 10pt;

float:left;

clear: left;

}

.row {

float:left;

margin: 0 10px 5px 0;

}

.col1 {

width: 80px;

}

.col2 {

width: 200px;

}

.col3 {

width: 100px;

}

This will give you a 3-column row with separate widths set to your wishes.

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