Calendar

The Calendar Widget is used to display events from an iCAL feed. Calendar events can be filtered and formatted using templates.

Add Widget

Click on Calendar from the Widget toolbar and click to add or drag and drop

If you are using a 1.8.x CMS, select Calendar from the Widget Toolbox to add!

On adding, configuration options are shown in the Edit Calendar form:

• Provide a Name for ease of identification.

• Choose to override the default duration if required.

• Select whether the duration is to be per item or leave unticked to set the duration per feed.

Configuration

• Provide the iCAL URL to link.

• Use the Interval field to filter events for a certain period. Use natural language such as '1 day' or '2 weeks' to return the events within your chosen time frame.

  From v3.0.0 select a date range to return events instead!

• Specify the Number of items/events you wish to display from the iCAL feed.

• Select to Exclude all day events and Exclude current events so that they are removed from the feed and not shown.

• Choose from the event timezone and calendar timezone to specify which timezone to use. If left unticked, the timezone that has been set in the CMS will be used.

• If your feed comes from Windows use the check box.

Appearance

• Use the Date Format field to ensure that you show the appropriate date/time formats for your calendar events.

  Take a look at the table at the bottom of this page for PHP date formats!

• Use the checkbox to show calendar items side by side.

• Select an Effect using the drop-down menu to be used to transition between items.

• When an effect is selected an additional option is shown to specify the number of events you wish to show per page.

  We would encourage users to opt for an effect when you have several events you wish to display, otherwise they will be shown as static lists.

Template

Click on the Template tab to show the Calendar Templates:

Main Template

• Select Main
• Toggle On the Visual editor to format the main template using the inline editor.
• Click the edit icon to open.

• Include text merge fields from the Snippets menu to pull in the required event information from the Calendar.

If you are using 1.8.x CMS use Available Substitutions to show available text fields to use!

From v2.1.0 [Date] fields can include an optional format [Date|format] so that [Date] can be used multiple times in a Template with different formats to allow for different styling for each element of a date.

• Click to Save.

Current Event Template

Set alternative text and formatting to show Current Events. Live will use the Players date/time to work out if the event showing is current and switch to the Current Event template.

Select Current Event from the Template tab

• Tick the box to Use an alternative template.

• Include text and select from the available Snippets to create a template to be used just for Current Events.
• Save changes.

No Data Template

This template allows a user to include a message to ensure that the intended audience is not left with blank displays when no events are returned from the iCAL feed.

Optional Style Sheet

Include CSS to apply to the template structure.

Caching

Include a suitable time for the Update Interval in minutes, keeping it as high as possible. This determines how often data will be requested from the iCAL feed. If the calendar is only ever modified with events scheduled days in advance, you can set this for a long period.

It is best practice to contact a remote feed as little as possible.

Trigger

Available from v3.0.0

Use this tab to trigger a Web Hook Action when there is a Current Event or No Event!

Example Scenario:

A user has a meeting room calendar configured using the Calendar Widget on a Layout which shows the current occupancy for a room and would like to change LED lights to show when vacant or in use.

• The user would first need to create Shell Commands which issued commands to an LED IoT device or the inbuilt LEDS's on some of the Philips Commercial Displays.
• Next an Interactive Action would need to be defined on the Layout, which would Navigate to Widget and Target the Screen, with the Shell Command Widgets configured in the Interactive Drawer.
• Using the Trigger tab on the Calendar Widget, assign the code's to trigger the Web Hooks for Current Event and No Event.

For information on what Commands to use, please speak with your Administrator.

Actions

Available from v3.0.0

Actions can be attached to this Widget, please see the Interactive Actions page for more information.

Date Format - PHP

Live should accept any date format that is in a correct PHP date format, the following characters are recognised and can be used:

Format Character	Description	Example returned values
	Day
d	Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros	01 to 31
D	A textual representation of a day, three letters	Mon through Sun
j	Day of the month without leading zeros	1 to 31
l	(lowercase ‘L’) A full textual representation of the day of the week	Sunday through Saturday
N	ISO-8601 numeric representation of the day of the week (added in PHP 5.1.0)	1 (for Monday) through 7 (for Sunday)
S	English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters	st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j
w	Numeric representation of the day of the week	0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday)
z	The day of the year (starting from 0)	0 through 365
	Week
W	ISO-8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday (added in PHP 4.1.0)	42 (the 42nd week in the year)
	Month
F	A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March	January through December
m	Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros	01 through 12
M	A short textual representation of a month, three letters	Jan through Dec
n	Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros	1 through 12
t	Number of days in the given month	28 through 31
	Year
L	Whether it’s a leap year	1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise.
o	ISO-8601 year number. This has the same value as Y, except that if the ISO week number (W) belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead. (added in PHP 5.1.0)	1999 or 2003
Y	A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits	1999 or 2003
y	A two digit representation of a year	99 or 0