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Help page for Art Calendar extension |
This is help page for Art Calendar Joomla! extension.
- Art Calendar Component description
Art Calendar component allows display highly-configurable calendars and their events.
- First steps with Art Calendar component
After Art Calendar component is installed administrator should enter valid license key for domain extension is installed on. Valid license key is retrieved from artetics.com after purchasing component. This could be done on page Components -> Art Calendar -> License.
Domain field is prepopulated with domain name. If you would like to change domain name enter it without 'http://' and 'www.', for example: 'artetics.com', 'localhost', '123.45.549.34'.
Initially after purchase customer is provided with testing license for several weeks. Using this license component has full functionality but its usage is limited in timeframe. Once order and payment are verified customer is provided with full license key for a year. Full license key is not limited in time however it has expiration date. This means that component will work even after expiration date, but customer is able to recieve free updates and support only in this year. Full license may be prolonged.
Once valid license is entered it's possible to work with component.
- Creating calendars
Go to Components -> Art Calendar -> Calendars to manage calendars. Using this view administrator can publish/unpublish, create, edit, delete calendars. If calendar is unpublished it cannot be viewed on front-end.
Using 'New' button administrator can create new calendar. Calendar can either contain events or can be created from Google Calendar.
Calendars and their events can also be created from articles using category and section id. This can be done on Settings page.
- Creating events
Once calendar is created administrator can add new events. Go to Components -> Art Calendar -> Events to manage events. Administrator can create, edit, remove events here. Each event should have title, start date and must be assigned to calendar. Description, end date, CSS class and URL are optional.
- Settings
Using Components -> Art Calendar -> Settings page administrator can manage common settings:
- Month names
- Day names
- Custom Javascript code to be executed on page load
- Error messages text
- Create calendars from articles
- Other settings
- Creating calendar from Google Calendar
To create calendar from Google Calendar follow the steps below:
- Make you Google Calendar public. Make sure "Share only my free/busy information" is unchecked.
- Obtain your calendar's XML feed URL.
- Enter this URL as Google Calendar Link while creating new calendar.
- Displaying calendar on front-end
To display list of calendars on front-end administrator should create menu item that points to Art Calendar component.
This url can be used to display list of available calendars: index.php?option=com_artcalendar
This url can be used to display single calendar: index.php?calendarid=ID&option=com_artcalendar, where ID is calendar id.
- Upgrading Art Calendar
To upgrade Art Calendar extension to newer version, uninstall old and install new version of component using standard Joomla! procedures. Calendar-related data in database will remain untouched.
- Contacts, questions and issues
Please visit www.artetics.com for component demo, upgrades or if you have questions. There are other nice Joomla! extensions available.
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