Advanced: Using Drop Down Menus With Calendars

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Advanced: Using Drop Down Menus With Calendars

Ok, so now you can build drop down menus, but what happens when you want to show events from a calendar? Once the calendar has more than 10 events, it gets too long.

There is a nice little trick to use a slightly different call to pull just the upcoming events, and sort them by date.

Note: If you haven't read about drop down menus yet, see the related article in the Creating Invisible Gold Powered Sites section of help.

1) You need to find the spot in the framework file that makes a gethtml call for each drop down menu. For example, here is a normal one, and the separate "calendar" one.

menu_Array2 = [
[150,263,58,"#000000"
,"#000000","#E2DEB2","#ffffff",,,0,0,0,1,1,1,"null","null",,]
<gethtml data="extendedobject" id="/company" mode="dropdownmenu4" objtype="default"/>
]

menu_Array3 = [
[150,357,58,"#000000"
,"#000000","#E2DEB2","#ffffff",,,0,0,0,1,1,1,"null","null",,]
<gethtml data="extendedobject" id="/schedule" mode="dropdownmenu4_upcoming" objtype="default"/>
]

Note: the ID= line in the second one. /schedule is the page id for a calendar.

2) Now you just need to copy the two files here into your /templates/default folder. Be sure to edit the "dropdownmenu4_upcoming.xsl" file to include the right page id. But that's all. You should be showing upcoming events. You can also edit the gethtml tag in this file to change the number of days to show.

Download: dropdownmenu4_upcoming.txt rename the file from .txt to .xsl once uploaded to /templates/default/

Download: dropdownmenu4_upcominghelper.txt rename the file from .txt to .xsl once uploaded to /templates/default/

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