This widget gives you another option in displaying Calendar events on a page.
Works in conjunction with the calendar module to display a list of calendar events in a grid pattern in a target department, or by tag.
How do I add this widget to a page?
- Click Edit Page
- Click either + Content or the Settings icon (down-facing caret) which will be located to the right of Edit where you will need to select either Insert above or Insert below
- Choose the Calendar Grid widget
- Select the department you would like to pull the events from and any additional fields that can be found in the Settings tab. The fields and their descriptions are listed below;
- Tags - This allows you to select a tag to display only events that have that tag.
- Articles Displayed - Chose the number of events you would like to display.
- Articles Per Row - Pick the number of events per row between one and four. By default, there will be three events per row.
- Grid Heading - Enter the title of the list. If nothing is entered a heading will not be displayed.
- Heading Size - You can choose the size of the heading, if one is entered. The available options for sizes range from H1 through H3.
- Description - Enter a short description of the list. If nothing is entered no description will be displayed. Please note a heading needs to be entered in the Grid Heading field for the description to appear.
- Title Sizes - Select the size of any titles. The sizes available are; default, H1 through H6
- Thumbnails - Select if a thumbnail of the photo set for the event should be shown. By default thumbnails are shown.
- Dates - Display the dates of events, by default they are shown
- Teasers - Select if you want teaser text to be displayed. The default is on.
- Read More - Enable the "Read More" link for each item listed.
- More Link Text - Enter a text link to view all related articles. If blank, the link will not display.
- Subscribe/RSS - Choose if you would like to enable a link for visitors to subscribe to an RSS feed, by default it is off. Note: Some browsers do not handle RSS feeds so code will be displayed on the screen. An external RSS reader will need to be used by visitors if they are using Chrome.
- When you are finished, click on the green Create button, and your Calendar List Grid widget will show up on the page.
- Make sure to click either the Publish or the Save Draft option just as you would when you're editing pages.
Additional Widget Information
- If you select "None (sample content)" as the department for the widget to pull information from, dummy text and information will be shown for the entries. This is could be used to create a page and see how it looks before you have the information that will be displayed.