Events that span multiple days

[asecondwill]

Events that span multiple days

[excid3]

I don't have anything setup for multi-day events right now, definitely could be added in the future.

To me, this is more of a display thing. As long as the calendar provides some meta-data for the end time of the event, the Javascript + CSS could control how it's displayed.

My suggestion, for now, would be to use the block for rendering the item and use it to apply a class to the element. This way you can use CSS to make the item an absolute width that's X amount of days wide. This might require some modifications to add some extra divs or entries inside the calendar so that everything can be styled properly though.

[asecondwill]

Cool, ok - thanks for updating.

[joaofraga]

+1

[deanpcmad]

I need this for a site I'm working on so will fork and see if I can add that feature :)

[excid3]

Sweet @deanperry. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help. :)

[deanpcmad]

I've just seen in a different issue that you've rewritten the gem and it's
in the 1.0 branch. Shall I make the changes there or create a branch off
master?
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[excid3]

Yeah try using that branch if you can, it's far more flexible and probably how things will be going forward.

[JonMidhir]

I've looked at doing this and the way I've figured it could work is to create a separate class, like a service object. Call it something like EventDay, it only needs to respond to the start_time method. You can serialize a multi-day event into several EventDays, and you can simply pass an array of EventDays to the calendar instead of the Events themselves.

How you style it after that etc is up to you of course.

Great gem. Really like it. We'll be using it at our new events product.

[excid3]

Thanks John! That's a good approach.

[excid3]

v1.1 yields a block to the entire day so it should be significantly easier to do multi-day events now. You can pull your recurring events and inject them into a day rather than having to pass them into the calendar first.