Joomla Calendar frustrations
I’ve been trying to put a calendar into my clinic’s web page to show which physicians are working when. I’m using Joomla! for the CMS on that site (don’t ask why, I was daring I guess – I probably could have just done up some HTML pages since I don’t really need a CMS for it), and I tried a few plugins I’ve seen. None are exactly what I want.
- JEvents – clunky interface. Need to use 2-3 different tabs to enter an event. Difficult to style without actually editing code, and I’d rather not spend the time to do that. Start and end times for events are only displayed in popup box on mouse-over (? possibility to print)
- GCalendar – Joomla component to help integrate the already easy to integrate (via an iframe) Google Calendar. Shows the start time for the event in the month view, but no end time. A mouse-click will bring up a popup frame that shows the details, but clueless users won’t figure that out, and it doesn’t help when trying to make a hardcopy.
- JCal Pro – doesn’t show the end time either. And it costs money in some scummy circumventing-GPL way.
Maybe this code for Google Calendar (with Simplepie) would help with my no end time display, but it seems to be more for a sidebar, RSS-feed type thing; don’t think I can get this to work in a month view deal.
My current very inelegant workaround is to include the end time in the event title (i.e. ” – 2p Dr. DancingSamurai”), which shows up as (“9 – 2p Dr. DancingSamurai”) on the month view and the ‘upcoming events’ as implemented by the GCalendar module. It’s just a really ugly workaround…
I’m not alone in this frustration, either. Is Google ever going to implement this as a feature?
Anyone have any other ideas?
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