Art Calendar
Art Calendar allows you to display a highly-configurable calendar and events. Add Google Calendar events to your calendar.
Installation
Install the extensions using standard Joomla! installation procedure (Extensions -> Install/Uninstall).
To install or upgrade your Art Calendar please install all Art Calendar extensions: mod_artcalendarmini.zip, mod_artcalendarevents.zip, com_artcalendar.zip, plg_artcalendar_google.zip and plg_artcalendar_themes.zip. Enable both plugins via the plugin manager.
Getting Started
Art Calendar is used to create nicely styled, modern and functional calendars that can be quickly deployed on the front end of your site to display events and your schedule. The first thing you will want to do is to create a new calendar. After your calendar is created you can add events to your calendar and add your calendars to calendar groups. No matter what your specific use case for Art Calendar, your first order of business is going to be to first create a calendar and then add events to your calendar.
Basic Calendar Actions
- Create New
- Click the blue 'new calendar' button in the top right side of the page. Give the new calendar a title, select an access level for the calendar, set the start year, start month and start day of the week, and add your google calendar public link to add google calendar events to your calendar.
- Remove
- Click the grey 'x' icon on the right side of each calendar item row in the main calendar list and confirm that you wish to permanently remove the item.
- Publish and Unpublish
- Click the red or green icon in the published column to publish and unpublish a calendar item.
- Batch Actions
- Use the batch actions dropdown to apply an action to multiple event items simultaneously.
Basic Event Actions
Events are defined as 'something that occurs in a certain place for a particular interval of time'. Events show up on your calendar on the calendar view on the front end of your site to show periods of time that are important or significant.
- Create New
- Click the blue 'new event' button in the top right side of the page. Give the new event a title, select start and end date/time, select which calendar to add your event, add a URL to the event, select whether event is recurring and what frequency of recurring, and add multiple attachments.
- Import
- Upload a CSV file to quickly import events into your Art Calendar. Learn more.
- Remove
- Click the grey 'x' icon on the right side of each event item row in the main event list and confirm that you wish to permanently remove the item.
- Publish and Unpublish
- Click the red or green icon in the published column to publish and unpublish an event item.
- Batch Actions
- Use the batch actions dropdown to apply an action to multiple event items simultaneously.
Basic Calendar Group Actions
Calendar Groups are for adding more than one calendar to a calendar view on the front end of your j3x site. Group together the calendars that are relevant to each other on the same page for the best browsing experience.
- Create New
- Click the blue 'new group' button in the top right side of the page. Give the new calendar group a title, select whether you want the group published or unpublished, and select the calendars that you would like to add to your group.
- Remove
- Click the grey 'x' icon on the right side of each calendar group item row in the main calendar group list and confirm that you wish to permanently remove the item.
- Publish and Unpublish
- Click the red or green icon in the published column to publish and unpublish a calendar group item.
- Batch Actions
- Use the batch actions dropdown to apply an action to multiple calendar group items simultaneously.
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