Advanced User Documents

Google (and other search engines) can pick up Rich Snippets/Microdata from your webpages to enhance the presetation of your event data in their search pages.  See http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164506 for more information. .....

This is a quick introduction to adding tooltips to the minicalendar. .....

The filter module, by default, uses a tabular layout for the filter fields and their labels. This may not suite your site. This article describes how to change this to an alternative presentation. .....

The JEvent club layouts come in a range of fixed widths that you can select in the JEvents configuration page. However because of your site template you may need to tweak one of these widths slightly to fit the size of your template perfectly. .....

This article explains how to customize the styles for the blog layout. .....

You may want to customise the icon navigation bar that appears above the main JEvents component. For example you may not want to show the monthly calendar. .....

It is possible to customise the output of the RSS feed by configuring JEvents.  If you want to go further than this then you can create a template override for the layout. .....

In JEvents you can customize current available filters and create your own really easy. .....

You may not be interested in all the fields in the event editing screen - for example you do not use the extra info or contact fields. In this case you will want to hide them during editing.This can be done quite easily with some custom CSS. .....

In JEvents its possible to apply multiple template overrides for the latest events module.  This means that you can have one module that displays "Today's Events" and another displaying "This Weeks Events" and have these formatted in completely different ways. This article describes this process based on a specific example.  We want to create a module to show "This Weeks Events" as in the partial screenshot below. .....

In JEvents its possible to apply multiple template overrides for the latest events module.  This means that you can have one module that displays "Today's Events" and another displaying "This Weeks Events" and have these formatted in completely different ways. This article describes this process based on a specific example - where the latest events appear withing a vertical auto-scrolling element (known as a marquee in HTML). .....

JEvents 2.0.x implements layout editing for the monthly calendar cell and the monthly calendar tooltip.  These are more complex to customise effectively than the list layout or event detail layout.  This short note describes how to do this for the club layouts (Iconic, Extplus and Ruthin) as well as those that come with JEvents (alternative, default, ext and geraint). .....

If you want to customise the information presented in the list views you need to create a template override for a helper file. This article assumes that you have read, or at least printed for reference , the article about customising the event detail page. .....

This article sets out in more detail how to create a template override for the event monthly calendar page with a particular emphasis on the popup window/tooltip.  It assumes that you have read and are familiar with the general introduction to template overrides. We will cover the available methods and variables. .....

JEvents Custom Layouts feature allows you to modify JEvents output easily just using your Joomla! editor with no need to deal with PHP code or template overrides. Nevertheless sometimes you need to modify the output of the layout Fields to adapt it better to your needs. For instance, to make Contact URL to open in a new window or to adapt the output of one of your Custom Fields. This documents shows you how to combine your Custom Layouts with a template overrides to highly and easily personaliz.....

On a more advanced topic, if custom layout for edit page is not enough to cover your needs, it is possible to create a template override for the JEvents event editing page. .....

The date range list of items is an ideal mechanism for creating an attractive printable layout for your upcoming events. This article will describe how to customise this layout so that you can create an attractive print layout (or even PDF based output). .....

If you want to set a word count limit on your event description then you could try this approach. It will only work with JCE or TinyMCE editors. .....