If you are user of ACS’ Facility Scheduler and AccessACS, you get a handy little calendar link that lets you publish calendars to your website. (You can also Broadcast your published events live to digital signage. More on that from Jason Lee here.)
The only problem is, if someone is on your website and they click your calendar link, they see this in calendar form, or or this in table form. Click and event, go ahead. Boring. Now, granted, if you go to any Monday and hit L.I.F.E. Ministries you can see what happens when you drop a little HTML in the event description (note to self: get that task caught up for other events). Still, the calendar display itself is kind of boring.
The obvious easy fix is to drop that into an iframe. Our calendar page now looks like this. Thanks to my buddy Matt Irvine for allowing me to rip this idea off. (don’t mind the gray, colors are totally customiizable).
Also, if you have multiple calendars like we do, and for some reason want to combine them for display on some pages, but not others, you can edit the links provided through AccessACS. Suppose you want a calendar that displays Youth and Children Events, but not Adult. Tweak the link. You’d be surprised what you can do with “&”
Next stop: Displaying events based on “next seven days” or “next 30 days” instead of the current month starting on the first.
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Hi, This is some very nice work you are doing here.
You had mentioned the ability of combining multiple calendars. Can you elaborate? When I try I get all of our calendars in a table not the ones specified.
I am trying to combine our “community events” calendar ( those group who meet without a rental fee) and our “outside events” calendar ( those who pay for meeting space)
URL for the outside events calendar:
https://secure.accessacs.com/access/viewscheduler.aspx?sn=110961&cid=c81c493a-d312-4815-8e38-47d1101a3b5a&view=table
URL for the community events calendar:
https://secure.accessacs.com/access/viewscheduler.aspx?sn=110961&cid=f0d7725f-2630-43ea-a499-7364a3925836&view=table
Could you point me in the right direction with this?
Your help will be greatly appreciated,
Sam
Hey Sam,
That was a hack I came up with back in December of 2009 before you could add an event to multiple calendars. It appears that now when you do that, it it pulls all events from all calendars. If I understand you correctly, you want to be able to combine these two calendars for display in some areas, but also be able to display them separately in others, is that correct? If not, you could just add the events to both calendars via a checkbox.
Another potential is to create a “combined” calendar, or potentially differentiating the two types of events within Facility Scheduler using tags? Shoot Darci Shelley at ACS an email. I am sure she will work it through with you.
Also, feel free to email me directly.
Cheers!
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