This article describes the custom format strings in the latest events module - and makes reference to incorporating elements from club addons e.g. custom fields, images If your format string is being ignored MAKE SURE you have 'Use settings below' checked in your module parameters. Fields The custom formatting strings are based around substituting field codes with their values from an event - the available fields are: ${startDate}, ${endDate} = The start and end date/time of the event repeat ${eventDate} = The date being looked at - if you are showing events over the next 7 days and a…
Welcome to the JEvents Quick Install Guide, this guide is based on JEvents 3.x. It will help guide you through the inital setup of JEvents within your Joomla! installation. Joomla! has two ways of installing a component, the first and easiest solution is to enabled the Joomla! Web installer.  Joomla! Web Installer   Login to your Joomla! Administration Area Click 'Extensions' and then 'Extension Manager' You should now see a page like below, click 'Add "Install from Web" tab'. Next click the search box and type in 'JEvents', it will be the first item shown. Click this…
JEvents features a tool to edit the layout of the event detail page, event list pages and the monthly calendar cell/tooltips (JEvents 2.0+ only) .  This video gives a quick demonstration of this in action for the event detail page.  NB when editing the monthly calendar cell or tooltips it is essential that you disable the WYSIWYG editor.
In JEvents 2.1+ we added special module positions to allow you to display instructions to site visitors/event creators or to place the other related modules like the filter module in more helpful positions. Please be aware that you need to enable the core Joomla! plugin 'Content - Load Modules' for this feature to work The positions include: Before JEvents is loaded:jevprejevents, jevprejevents_year.listevents, jevprejevents_week.listevents, jevprejevents_cat.listevents, jevprejevents_day.listevents, jevprejevents_month.calendar, jevprejevents_icalevent.detail, jevprejevents_range.listevents jevprejevents2, jevprejevents2_year.listevents, jevprejevents2_week.listevents, jevprejevents2_cat.listevents, jevprejevents2_day.listevents, jevprejevents2_month.calendar, jevprejevents2_icalevent.detail Before the JEvents Navigation Header:jevpretoolbar, jevpretoolbar_year.listevents, jevpretoolbar_week.listevents, jevpretoolbar_cat.listevents, jevpretoolbar_day.listevents, jevpretoolbar_month.calendar, jevpretoolbar_range.listevents After the JEvents Navigation Header: jevposttoolbar, jevposttoolbar_year.listevents, jevposttoolbar_week.listevents, jevposttoolbar_cat.listevents, jevposttoolbar_day.listevents, jevposttoolbar_month.calendar, jevposttoolbar_range.listevents After JEvents is…
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In JEvents it is possible to import events from a CSV file.  The format of this file is very important - some users find MS Excel doesn't give enought flexibility to set the field delimiter to a comma and it often ends up leaving out the double quotes around the fields. If you have these problems then I'd revommend you try OpenOffice or LibreOffice instead to create the extract. It must include the following columns:[codep]"CATEGORIES","SUMMARY","LOCATION","DESCRIPTION","CONTACT","X-EXTRAINFO","DTSTART","DTEND","TIMEZONE","RRULE"[/codep] Club members can download a sample file at the bottom of this document. For non-members - this is an example of the first line of…
As of JEvents 2.0+ you should take a look at the JEvents Custom layouts editing tool first - this allows you to customise your event detail and list pages without needing to do any PHP coding. Click here for more information So you want to customise one of the layouts provided by JEvents but you don't want these changes to be lost when you upgrade.  This is a very brief guide - if you want more general information about template overrides then I'd recommend you search for Joomla! template overrides in a search engine. Basic Changes Lets assume you want…
If you want to override specific language strings from the en-GB.com_jevents.ini file you can create a special override for these changes what won't get overwritten when you upgrade. Joomla provides an easy mechanism for overriding language strings in any component or module. In the back-end of Joomla select the Language Manager from the Extensions Menu and then select "Overrides". Here you are can create new language overrides - there is a clever search tool to find the strings you want to change.To create a language override, click 'New'. A new page will load and on the right hand side you…
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This is part of the Custom Format String which can be removed by customising the Custom Format String. Refer to the Custom Format Strings document.
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Q. I have changed the time formatting to 12hour, but it's not changed everywhere?  A. This happens in the Latest Events Module, this module has a defined time string within it's custom format string. To allow customisable output, to change it please see this document ( here ) 
In JEvents you can override the formatting of dates and times by changing the translations of various key translation strings (see the related link at the bottom of this page for an explanation about how to customise parts of the JEvents translations).  If you want to do this then on the first tab of the JEvents config you should make sure you set the option to use date formats from the language file. In english the default translation strings are: DATE_FORMAT_0="%A, %d %B %Y" which results in: Monday, 20 May 2013 DATE_FORMAT_1="%d %B %Y" which results in: 20 May 2013 DATE_FORMAT_2="%d %B" which results in: 20…
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You may see this message on some servers when you try to save an event. It arises because you have configured JEvents to check for overlapping events when you save a new or changed event.  If you don't need this on your site then disable this option - if you do want to block overlapping events then please read on: It is usually caused by the fact that your server cannot run the script components/com_jevents/libraries/checkconflict.php usually because you have installed a security setting that block all php scripts apart from the main index.php script.  This could be caused by…
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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.
Q. I want to redirect users automatically to the Event Detail if the Day List view only have one event. A. As of JEvents 3.x we have added this as a configuration option in: JEvents -> Configuration -> Event Detail. Set: Redirect Day View With 1 Event to Event Detail to YES.
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JEvents and the club addons use Cronjobs/Scheduled tasks to perform various tasks on a periodic basis.
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This document will show you how to recreate the Iconic Layout used on the Demo Site.
Categories After you install JEvents you should open the component in the backend and click on 'Manage Categories'.  As the name suggests categories are used to organise events into different types.  You could have categories like 'kids', 'adults', 'families' or 'football', 'tennis', 'running' - whatever suits your data structure. You can have multi level categories e.g. 'tennis' and 'football'  at a top level then 'kids tennis' and 'pro tennis' beneath tennis etc. When you create an event you must specify a category for the event.  If you feel you need more than one category do classify each events you should…
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If you want to customise the JEvents stylesheets or background icons/images without loosing your changes each time you upgrade you can create a stylesheet override.
If you recieve the following error: Error 403 'You are not authorised to view this resource' When attempting to create an event whilst logged in as a Super Administrator, then you probably: enabled authorised user mode for event editing/creation Enabled authorised user mode for event editing/creation (JEvents Configuration -> Permissions) And did not set up the Super Admin user as an authorised event creator, in JEvents cPanel -> Authorised Users. To fix this you should setup the Super Administrator as an authorised event creator through JEvents cPanel -> Authorised Users or disable authorised user mode and use the Joomla! ACL…
One of the repeated requests that came from our members was to have the ability to show different layouts dependent if a field has a value or not. From JEvents 1.5.5 and upwards, we have implement a new feature which allows you to do this. For example if you only sometimes use the extra info field then you can use this code {{Extra Info:EXTRAINFO#Extra info is %s#No Extra info}} If you are using the standarised image addon and some of your events don't have an image then you may want to show a placeholder image instead of the blank space…
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Some templates are clever and add the links after the link in a print view, the reason for this is you don't know where the link is on a text document, so we print it. Unfortunately, this is really bad in a JEvents view like the monthly calendar. The url is at the bottom of the page so users can just find the exact page that way. So we can use this code in your templates Custom CSS section. The code is: [codep]@media print { #jevents_body a:after {content:"" !important;} }[/codep] This should then revert your print layout back to normal.
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Since June 2016 Google applied some changes to the terms of service for their API. All new domains using their API will be required to use an API key and domains already using their API without a key are highly advice to start using one although no disruption in the service is planned. You can see the details visiting this link: https://developers.google.com/maps/standard-plan-2016-update This document guides you through the process for obtaining an API key to use with JEvents Addons.