[PRO] Adding a Calendar - NOT Google?

Oops, forgot the link

http://www.2studiob.ca/calendar.html

I’m not entirely content with the colour of text vs background, etc, I might tweak that, or see about applying a picture to the back of the table to match the other pages. Can a pic be applied to the back of a table? I’m about to find out. Thanks again for all your help, sorry I wasn’t able to go with all your suggestions, but I did investigate them all, & tried several. This just works better for me…

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Ok, it’s not so easy to apply a background image to the entire table. I’ve tried putting the image in a graphics box behind the table, that sort of works, but the cell resizing with text changes, makes the table bigger or smaller than the graphics box behind it, despite what the pixel attributes say in the inspector.

I’ve gone to this link… http://www.freewaytalk.net/thread/view/4242

to see about applying a background image to tables, but that thread appears to be just about applying the image to individual cells & not the whole table. Also it’s written in some kind of crypto-tech speak that is impossible to follow. When I go to what I think is the Styles Palate (Styles & Colors? or the regular Inspector that also covers Styles?) there are lots of styles applied to my table already, I’ve clicked on several & tried to apply the image, but it never appears, in a cell or for the whole table.


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You could Cut your Table from the page and paste it into an HTML box (apply the background graphic to the HTML container).

To paste into the HTML container click inside until you get the flashing I Beam cursor then paste. Also deselect the height attribute of the HTML box.

http://www.deltadesign.co/examples/targetshow.html

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Ok, now we’re talking. So far so good, pasted the table, no problem. But my image sits in the middle of the HTML box when it’s applied. Is there a command to make it fill the box?

thanks Dave


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Since the HTML box is unlike the graphic box where I can resize the image to fit the box, I photoshopped the image to fit the exact size of the box. Yet it still tiles inside the box, even though Tile is unchecked. But in my Page view in Freeway, the image appears 1 time in the box, perfectly centered & filling the box perfectly. However, in browser preview or preview mode, it’s tiled again. We’re getting very close, I was so happy the way it was going… with your suggestion, I was ready to join your Club Penguin… but not just yet…

almost there…


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Make the image large enough to fill the box

Mine is set to Horizontal:Center and Vertical:Top and is large enough to accommodate expansion when text is resized.

You cant easily make a bg image applied to an HTML item resize. It may be doable with some fancy tweaking bit probably easier to choose an appropriately sized image at the get-go.

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Hmm… ok, well since I did make the image the exact size to fill the box, yet it’s being split into a double tiling, that makes me think I should have pasted the pic into the box BEFORE I pasted the Table in. Perhaps the Table, because it has 2 rows, is causing the background image to be effected by the rows? Could that be the problem?

If that is the case, that means I have to somehow select the table inside the HTML box and Cut it out again, not sure if that is possible either. I will try…

Thanks again Dave


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Ok, tried that. No matter how big the pic is, or if it’s the exact dimensions of the HTML box, it always looks perfect in Freeway Page mode, but in Preview or Browser Preview, the pic is tiled. I’ve tried Horizontal Center / Vertical Top, & the pic is tiled, tiled, tiled every time. Why is web design such a horrible experience?


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The technobabble on that thread is a holdover from the bad old days of PHPBB, and doesn’t really reflect on the information it contains. There was an Action for applying backgrounds to tables, back in the misty depths of time.

There’s an easy way to do it now. Make a new style in the styles palette. In the Edit Style screen, click on the (+) picker next to Character, and choose Background Image. Pick your image, set your tiling style and position, and save the style. Name it something memorable so you can spot it in the list. Then click once on the table, or easier, drag a selection rectangle around one corner of it, so the 8 handles light up on the edges and sides. Finally, click once on the style name in your Styles palette. You won’t see any change in the design view, but once you switch over to the Preview mode or preview in a browser, you will see your image.


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Fixed! http://2studiob.ca/calendar.html

Thank you Walter, you Sir are a Godsend.
This whole ordeal has caused me such grief, yet you have made it all so simple & in plain understandable English.

Yes, the calendar may not be as fancy or glamorous as others, but at least I’m free from google. Am I correct in assuming that in the future, just adding more cells & lengthening the page will accommodate more dates to the calendar?

I’m so thankful that pesky problem is out of the way. Now all I have to do is come up with a little favicon, & surrender things to the video guy. Thanks again for all your help everyone & an extra big hug for Walter.


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On 27 Apr 2011, 5:31 pm, waltd wrote:

If you can manage a text file like this one:

http://scripty.walterdavisstudio.com/cal/data/data.txt

and you like the way it looks out of the box, you could just use my MiniCal implementation.

MiniCal Test Page

Click back to March of this year to see a couple of days with links, including one where there are multiple links.

Walter

Hello Walter and excuse me Tanya for tapping into this thread but I was wondering how you implement the minical setup you have on your link Walter?
Its a useful setup for a project I’m putting together.

Thanks for now

Anthony


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Sure. I just posted it to GitHub, so you can see it here: GitHub - walterdavis/minical: A miniature calendar widget using PHP and Prototype.js. Edit a simple text file to update the events shown in the calendar. and if you click on the Downloads link on that page and then click Download as .zip, you can download the whole thing without having Git installed on your Mac.

To use this in Freeway, draw an HTML box on your page where you want the calendar to appear, open Item / Extended and click New. In the resulting sub-dialog, enter

  • Name: class
  • Value: minical

Next, apply the Protaculous Action to your page, and choose prototype-packed from the Library menu. Apply the External JavaScript Action to your page and attach the minical.js file (from the minical/javascripts folder) to the page. Then use the External Stylesheets Action to attach css/minical.css to the page.

Now, create a folder in your Freeway document named data. Create a page in that folder (it doesn’t matter what you call it), and apply the Upload Stuff Action to it. In the “With HTML Files” section of the Action interface, attach the data/data.txt file from the downloaded project. You will want to edit this file using TextWrangler or another programmer’s text editor. The format is very simple, but you must save the file as a Unix text file with no extra text or formatting or extraneous Byte Order Markers or whatever, and a real editor is critical to that.

Finally, create a folder in your Freeway document named lib. Create a page in that folder, and apply the Upload Stuff Action to it. In the ‘With HTML Files’ section, attach the files lib/class.MiniCal.php and lib/cal.php from the project files you downloaded.

If I haven’t forgotten anything, upload to your server and look at it there and you should see a calendar.

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Walter,
Is it possible to use this calendar on a website where clients can book an appointment there? I want a calendar where the clients can see the allready booked days and times, but also be able to book their own appointment on an available time. The tricky part is that clients should not be able to see their appointments (names and reason for appointment). This kind of information should be entered while booking in the calendar, but it should be emailed to the site owner. The only thing you should then see is the blocked timeframe in the calendar. How can this be achieved?


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The minical app is not nearly that sophisticated. It’s designed to be publicly visible, and privately editable (by editing a simple text file). The idea is that you can turn your client loose with a text editor and an FTP tool, and trust that they won’t be able to muck it up too badly when they want to post events to the calendar.

Here’s what it looks like: MiniCal Test Page

You may want to look at HotScripts or another code-sharing site for a booking script that you can buy or use for free. Your requirements seem pretty specific, though, and you may want to hire me or another programmer to build you something custom to suit your needs.

Walter

On Feb 23, 2013, at 12:22 PM, Wimdg wrote:

Walter,
Is it possible to use this calendar on a website where clients can book an appointment there? I want a calendar where the clients can see the allready booked days and times, but also be able to book their own appointment on an available time. The tricky part is that clients should not be able to see their appointments (names and reason for appointment). This kind of information should be entered while booking in the calendar, but it should be emailed to the site owner. The only thing you should then see is the blocked timeframe in the calendar. How can this be achieved?


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OK Walter, thanks. I will look further into this and will get back to you. By the way, the chirp action on my site works great! Now it is much better and suits my needs. Can you explain me a little bit how chirp finds the tweets, without Twitter being able to track my visitors? It is nt something for this thread, so you also mail me at: email@hidden


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Walter, Is it possible to use this calendar on a website where clients can book an appointment there? I want a calendar where the clients can see the allready booked days and times, but also be able to book their own appointment on an available time. The tricky part is that clients should not be able to see their appointments (names and reason for appointment). This kind of information should be entered while booking in the calendar, but it should be emailed to the site owner. The only thing you should then see is the blocked timeframe in the calendar. How can this be achieved?

Take a look at - http://www.groupon.com/scheduler Very easy to implement with FW. I have used it for a chiropractor website and he synced it up with his Google calendar.

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That looks really cool. I would caution you however to avoid free “beta” apps from companies that don’t have a valid business model. You may have to do a quick duck-shuffle to another service one day soon.

Walter

On Feb 23, 2013, at 2:09 PM, Helveticus wrote:

Take a look at - http://www.groupon.com/scheduler Very easy to implement with FW. I have used it for a chiropractor website and he synced it up with his Google calendar.


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Walter, I agree. First thoughts were that Groupon would have a hidden agenda with this…


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I would caution you however to avoid free “beta” apps from companies that don’t have a valid business model.

This scheduler was called OpenCal before Groupon bought them late in 2011. It looks like it is part of a suite of business tools offered by Groupon. It has been free for a number of years now. I’m sure it will become a paid-for service and there is nothing wrong with paying for something that helps you or your clients be more effective. https://www.grouponworks.com/merchant-solutions


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