Hello.

A client is planning to use your control to build an online calendar.  I have uploaded their zipped-up PowerPoint of the requirements.  Please refer to it for the following questions:

1.  Is it possible to create a mutli-part calendar like one on page 2?

2.  Can we show minutes on the ruler on the left?

3.  Can we display different color lines and text?

4.  Can we display custom icons in the top right corner of each appointment?

5.  Will there be any issues with the Copy to Outlook feature on several pages?  I'm assuming it's a two-step process: export from our app and import to Outlook.

6.  Are we able to exclude everything but the work hours per page 18?

 

Thanks so much - looking forward to working with your software.

 

Anatoly Molotkov, MCPD

www.A2ZConsulting.net

Hi,
1. You can create MultiOwner calendar with version 2.3.
2. Ruler on the left shows labels for whole hours only.
3. Yes.
4. Yes. 
5. Calendar control just displays events in different views and does not have built in support for export/import. So you should create you own export/import functionality. 
6. For work week view you can set  day start hour and day end hour, but they will be the same for all week days (in your case from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.) In day view you can also set day start hour and day end hour for currently displayed day.

Please don't hesitate to ask if you have other questions. 

Hi,

Thanks.  For item 1, I can't seem to find any reference on your site.  Can you please give me an idea how it's done.  Also, for 3 and 4, if you could point me to the properties I need to manipulate, I would love it.

Thank you!

Hi,
you can create MultiOwner calendar with version 2.3 only. Ajax Calendar.Net (version 3.0 and above) does not have such functionality. Please see documentation about Calendar.Net control here:
http://docs.mediachase.com/doku.php?id=calendar:intro. Databinding for MultiOwner calendar is discussed in the following post: http://www.mediachase.com/Community/forums/thread/10408.aspx.

Calendar controls (Ajax and non Ajax ) support item templates. You can create any template you want for your calendar items. Documentation about item template for Ajax calendar is here:
http://docs.mediachase.com/doku.php?id=calendar:30:api#calendar_item_template_and_calendar_item_mapping

Hope this helps.

Hi, what version of the Calendar are you running?  2.3?

Mediachase Softare

3.2.2.

Hi,
sorry for late reply. Ajax Calendar control (version 3.0 and above) does not support multi owner format. Only version 2.3 of Calendar.Net control supports this feature.

You can customize view of displaying items using "ItemTemplate" and "ItemMapping" properties in Ajax Calendar control. Please see the following documentation section: http://docs.mediachase.com/doku.php?id=calendar:30:api#calendar_item_template_and_calendar_item_mapping

To display image in item just insert this image in item template.
Displaying different colored items was discussed in the following posts:
http://www.mediachase.com/Community/forums/thread/10448.aspx
http://www.mediachase.com/Community/forums/thread/10062.aspx
http://www.mediachase.com/Community/forums/thread/9766.aspx

Hope this helps.

Hello, and thanks for your response.

I had taken your wrong earlier: I assumed the feature was supported in 2.3 AND LATER.  Why did you guys remove it from the newer version?  What would it take to restore this feature?

I have some ideas on how to reproduce it (using several calendar controls alongisde each other, etc), but having done this before, the job might be easier for you.  I am trying to hit a 2/27 deadline and get the rest of the project done.  Is this something you could add, even for a fee?  If so, please let me know what fee? 

Thanks again,

Anatoly

Hi,
Calendar.Net and Ajax Calendar.Net are completely different controls. So not all features of version 2.3 are supported in version 3.*. You can show multiowner calendar using several controls as you've suggested. We can suggest other way with one control.

For instance you have 10 users (owners) and each user should have displayed items in one column in MultiDay view. So you can set "ViewMode" to "Custom", "DaysCount" to "10", and set "SelectedDate" to the desired date (02/23/2009 for instance). Then you should set up a correspondence between date and user name: 02/23/2009 - John Doe, 02/24/2009 - Jane Doe, etc. So in method "LoadItems" of calendar web-service you know that 02/23/2009 contains items for John Doe, 02/23/2009 - for Jane Doe, etc. Then you should turn off calendar header in MultiDay view (set "ShowHeader" to "false") and add your own header where user names will be displayed instead of dates.

Hope this helps.

How would you go about creating the functionality on page 5 of the original attachment?

Thank you,

Anatoly

Hi,
each calendar view has public properties "ViewStartDate" and "ViewEndDate". You store items in database so if you want to import items to Outlook you should read them from calendar database and write them to Outlook database. Vice versa for export from Outlook - read items from Outlook database and write them to calendar database. Read at Microsoft site how to work with Outlook database.

Thanks.  Actually, I was asking about the page which, in month view, has a summary text for each day displayed, like "two appointments" ,etc.  The text would be data-driven, but they want it to display in the whole cell.

Thank you.

Hi,
in this case for each month day you can create fictitious item which will display summary information for the day. Increase item height in item template to display it in whole cell.

Hope this helps.

Hello,

I am using this extremely simplified monthly template.  I have set height to 100%, yet it's still taking only a part of the date display, per the attachment.  How do I take up the entire space in each date?

oCalendar.MonthView.ItemTemplate = "<div id=\"description\" style=\"width:100%; height:100%; overflow:visible; \"></div>";

oCalendar.MonthView.ItemMapping= "[{\"id\":\"description\",\"property\":\"innerHTML\",\"value\":\"Description\"},"+

"{\"id\":\"description\",\"property\":\"title\",\"value\":\"Description\"}]";

Also, how do I insert a line break.  <br> within my Decription text?

Thank you!

Hi,
in Month view there is int property "ItemHeight" - height of item in pixels. So change this property to match height of month row.

Just insert <br/> into description text.