Invenmanager User Forum

Your [EVENTDATE] token is great, but isn't always what I need for my layout, especially in list view where I don't want to show the times.

I'd like to be able to turn off the time portion of that Token so that it would show the single date ("3/1") for a one-day event, and multiple days ("3/1 - 3/3") for a multi-day event -- exactly like it does now but without the times.

I would think that creating a new token like this would be very easy if you used the existing token as a starting point.

If it is for one-day event, it should display event date string without time.
Isn't it so?

Or you can try:
[STARTDATE|M/d] - [ENDDATE||M/d]

But this will always display two date, such as 3/1 - 3/1 for single day event.

>> If it is for one-day event, it should display event date string without time.
>> Isn't it so?

No, it displays the event times unless the event is an all-day event (and thus has no times to display)

>> Or you can try:
>> [STARTDATE|M/d] - [ENDDATE||M/d]
>> But this will always display two date, such as 3/1 - 3/1 for single day event.

Yes, I tried that, but it looks terrible for one-day events.

That's why I'd like one that doesn't display the times at all.

James,

I tested using [EVENTDATE|M/d] actually works as the way you suggested.

For All day events, no time will be displayed.
Unless it is not an all-day event in your case? but you want to suppress the time portion?

EXACTLY! Most "events" I would need to schedule/list on a web site are not all-day events. A festival, luncheon, committee meeting, company picnic, cub scout meeting, etc. all have start/stop times.

Here's an example of how I want my list view to look (pretty standard stuff, easy to find events with a glance, click for the times and more details):

3/1 Board Luncheon
3/2 - 3/4 Sales Convention
3/12 Company Picnic
3/14 Company Holiday (no work!)
3/25 Long Range Planning Committee Meeting

If any event has a time, then using the [EVENTDATE] token will make it look like this (which is much harder to scan/read - and it just doesn't look as nice)

3/1 12:00 - 2:30 pm Board Luncheon
3/2 - 3/4 Sales Convention
3/12 11:00am - 3:00pm Company Picnic
3/14 Company Holiday (no work!)
3/25 10:00am - 5:00pm Long Range Planning Committee Meeting

or you could just use the [STARTDATE] token which would make multi-day events look like a one-day event

3/2 Sales Convention

This is the option I'm currently using, but I don't like it because it doesn't give the whole picture.

The only other option I can think of would be to not put times on ANY event, but that makes the module less useful as a working calendar (and messes up sorting by date/time).

A simple tag addition like [EVENTDATENOTIMES] would solve the problem nicely.

Thanks.

Note that my examples above would probably be displayed as tables so the dates would be in one column and the events in another - although they wouldn't have to be.

James,

Well, this is something we never thought of, we will add this token for you in the next update.

James,

Well, this is something we never thought of, we will add this token for you in the next update.