Custom events date, start and end time fields

zmand13

Hi,

would it be possible to modify the settings for the date and times fields when creating a new event?
For example, date field forces the date input in the predefined format. Could we just change a date field into the text field. This way we can input different date formats including spanning the event over several days.

Also, I would like to avoid start and end time fields. I would like to leave these fields empty to remove displaying times on the frontend. Now, if you leave time fields empty the application displays some default values.

Best,

Zoran

saguaros

zmand13
Hi,

You can customize the event content type a bit:
Go to file: root/templates/ja_alumni/contenttype/types/event.xml
To change the date formate, look for this field (line 26):

<field name="ctm_date"
	   type="calendar"
	   default=""
	   format="%d.%b.%y"
	   label="PLG_JACONTENT_TYPE_DATE_LABEL"
	   description="PLG_JACONTENT_TYPE_DATE_DESC"/>

and change the value of 'format' param

To remove the default value for time, check these fields:

<field name="ctm_start"
	   type="text"
	   default="8:00 am"
	   label="PLG_JACONTENT_TYPE_START_TIME_LABEL"
	   description="PLG_JACONTENT_TYPE_START_TIME_DESC"/>
<field name="ctm_end"
	   type="text"
	   default="8:00 am"
	   label="PLG_JACONTENT_TYPE_END_TIME_LABEL"
	   description="PLG_JACONTENT_TYPE_END_TIME_DESC"/>

and remove the '8:00 am' in the 'default' param

Regards

zmand13

Thank you Saguaros,

I've changed the date format and to "%B %d, %Y" and it works correctly on the event creation page. This means when I insert the date it is displayed in the field just according the format. But on the website the old format is displayed. I cleared cache.
Another words I entered the date in the format April 12, 2018 which was shown in the date field on Event info page but on the website the format 12.Apr.18 still persists.

Best,
Zoran

pavit

Hi zmand13

To change website date format you can edit this file /language/en-GB/en-GB.tpl_ja_alumni.ini

And change from :

TPL_DATE_FORMAT_LC1 	="d.M.Y"
TPL_DATE_FORMAT_LC1_2 	="d.M.y"

TO :

TPL_DATE_FORMAT_LC1 	="M.d.Y"
TPL_DATE_FORMAT_LC1_2 	="M.d.y"

Hope it helps