[Zope] Extended use of the calendar tag

[raver@box.dust.za.net]

On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 03:34:45PM +0000, Ty Sarna wrote:
> In article <19990423133303.A284@RaVER.duck.org>,
>  <raver@box.dust.za.net> wrote:
> > If I have this code:
> > 
> > <!--#calendar mode=month-->
> > <A HREF="/some/place/form"><!--#var date fmt=day--></A>
> > <!--#/calendar-->
> > 
> > Then - is there some way that the DTML method 'form' in /some/place/ can pick up what
> > 'daylink' that was the caller, or is the only way to transfer variables
> > between methods to use forms?
> 
> You can pass it as a query string. Something like:
> 
>  <!--#calendar mode=month-->
>   <A HREF="/some/place/form?date=<!--#var date fmt=spam-->">
>    <!--#var date fmt=day-->
>   </A>
>  <!--#/calendar-->
> 
> (where spam is one of the formats that yields YYYY-MM-DD or MM-DD-YYYY
> or what have you... I can never remember the date formatting options)
> 

Thanks a lot!! - things start to work here (finally).

Now I'm down to only one question, how do I get to use the properties and
variables documented in the CalenderTag class? Could you please give an DTML
example? 

> Alternately, with more magic you could include the date as part of the
> URL. (/some/place/form/1999-05-14)
> 
> > I hope there is a solution to this as it would be fairly simple then to
> > create an appointmet calendar kind of thing.
> 
> That's exactly the kind of thing it's inteneded for.  The default UI is
> a clone of the Palm Pilot Datebook application, actually :-)
> 
> P.S. to those of you who sent me mail with questions and enhancements to
> the calendar tag... I'm just starting to get myself dug out of a whole
> pile of work, so I should be able to hack on Calendar and TinyTables again
> soon.
> 
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Sture