Hi,

I need to use the calendar's "editable scheduler" design in a fashion that provides for a site administrator role (manually or via SQL Svr tables) to populate selected days with events - and modify and delete. I need the end users to see the events and then click on them to get additional information about the event. The end user must be "read only".

I have the demo code in my VS 2010 environment and can run the demos and see the code in "source" mode. However, switching to "design" mode doesn't actually show the calendar control.

I'm looking for a "plan of attack" and any code samples. I assume I need two separate calendars: one for the administrator and one for the end user. The "editable scheduler" sample appears to be the choice for the administrator. Although, I would ultimately like to drive this process by populating the calendar from the DB - is there a good sample for this?

I've not seen a sample that addresses my needs for the end user. All I really need is to handle the click on a given event and then pop up a message box with the event name plus other information stored in the DB. Are there any samples to help me with this?

Thanks for your help.

This is an Update on my trying to figure out this control:

I moved the "editable scheduler" demo into a test page and have figured out where to trap the notes keyed into the calendar (wrote them to a flat file):

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Protected Sub CallbackPanel1_Execute(sender As Object, e As EO.Web.CallbackEventArgs)
Dim callbackParam As String = CallbackPanel1.LastTrigger.Parameter

'Validate the parameter. The first 10 characters
'is the date. The rest is the note.
If Not (callbackParam Is Nothing) AndAlso callbackParam.Length > 10 Then
Dim [date] As String = callbackParam.Substring(0, 10)
Dim note As String = callbackParam.Substring(10)

Notes(EO.Web.Calendar.StringToDate([date])) = note

'Using notelist As StreamWriter = File.AppendText("C:\webdev\notes.txt")
' Dim mydate As String = callbackParam.Substring(0, 10)
' notelist.WriteLine(mydate)
' notelist.WriteLine(note)
'End Using
End If

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However, I don't know how to populate notes into the calendar when it is being rendered. I can see that the particual day is developed as: table id="dayId_2012_03_01" in this code:

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Protected Sub Calendar1_DayRender(sender As Object, e As EO.Web.DayRenderEventArgs)
Dim note As String = CStr(Notes(e.Day.Date))

'Create an ID for this day
Dim dayId As String = "dayId_" + EO.Web.Calendar.DateToString(e.Day.Date)
dayId = dayId.Replace("-"c, "_"c)

Dim html As String = "<table id=""{0}"" border=""0"" cellSpacing=""0"" cellPadding=""0"""
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html = String.Format(html, dayId, backgroundColor)

e.Writer.Write(html)
End Sub 'Calendar1_DayRender

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However, I don't understand how to put notes into a calendar. I can read them from the flat file where I saved them and I have some idea how the date is constructed. But, I don't know to put this together.

Will greatly appreciate any help.

Hi,

We can only tell you what DayRender event handler does. The code you put inside DayRender event handler is responsible for rendering contents for a specific day cell. So for example, if you have the following code:

if (e.Day.Date.Year == 2012)
e.Writer.Write("It's this year");

Inside your event handler, then the Calendar will show "it's this year" for all day cells for the year of 2012, but empty for all other years.

The point of DayRender event is to instruct the Calendar to give you empty day cells so that you can fill them up with whatever you want based on your own logic.

This is as much as we can help you on how to use DayRender event. You will need to figure out how to do the rest. We will not be writing a note management application for you.

Thanks!

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