Hi all,

With regards to the Event Calendar

My Sponsor, Category, and Registration bit doesn't work.

<dl> 
<dt>Category: </dt> 
<dd>$Event.Category</dd> 
<dt>Sponsor: </dt> 
<dd>$Event.Sponsor</dd> 
</dl> 

http://www.srmpromotions.com/dj-factory/2009-08-08

You can see at the bottom of the page that it creates the Category and Sponsor, but doesn;t bring in the details from the CMS. I have tried lots of variations of writing this code, including inserting <% control Event %>...<% end_control %>. But as i'm dabbling, and i'm not 100% sure on how the 'control things' work.

I'd like to use the registration field in the CMS to generate a link on the page. So where its says Tickets, i'd like to insert the Registration field there:

<div id="TicketHolder">

<a href="$Event.RegistrationLink"><h3>Event Tickets</h3></a>

</div>

to act as a link for that particular event.

I hope you can get what i'm trying to explain, if anyone can help with this I would greatly appreciate it.

Can you post your code for your event class?

My SS and php file attached

If you're on the detail page for the event, you don't need the $Event accessor, since you're not in the Events control like on the calendar view. The difference is that the latter returns DateTime objects, not Event objects.

Works perfectly now, Thanks.

After reading this, I realised I was editing the Workshop.ss and not the WorkshopHolder.ss and so I was seeing the reverse where by
$Category and $Sponsor was working.

However I'm having difficulty in getting the $Location variable to show in the Workshop.ss
I assume it needs to go via another 'accessor'?

$Event.Location and $DateTime.Location don't work - but i'm only guessing at what it should be, any hints where to look?

another thing - where is the Location stored in the database, I can't it anywhere in the database via phpMyAdmin

cheers

What class is the Location field in?

It's pretty simple.. If you're in <% control Events %>, then anything on the Event subclass needs to be accessed by $Event.Field. Anything on the DateTime subclass can be accessed with just $Field.

But if you're in <% control Event %>, then you can access anything on the Event subclass with just $Field.

so in WorkshopHolder.ss this works as expected

<dt>Category: </dt>
<dd>$Event.Category</dd>
<dt>Sponsor: </dt>
<dd>$Event.Sponsor</dd>
<dt>Location:</dt>
<dd>$Location</dd>
</dl>

but in Workshop.ss

<dt>Category: </dt><dd>$Category</dd>
<dt>Sponsor: </dt><dd>$Sponsor</dd>
<dt>Location: </dt><dd>$Location</dd>

only the Category and Sponsor values are showing

As far as I can tell from your previous post the Location is part of the DateTime class and should show.

I've tried $WorkshopDatetTime.Location and $Event.Location and $DateTime.Location and $Location and it doesn't show up, but the value does show on the WorkshopHolder page so it must be set (although I can't find it anywhere in the tables via phpMyAdmin - is it stored as a hash or something in memory due to the addTableFields function?).

Workshop.ss is an exact copy of CalendarEvent.ss except for the above 3 lines in it.

I'm using v88 of the event calendar on ss v 2.3.4

thanks for your patience