This page contains a few helpful tips and tricks for customizing your calendar.
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IDT Include Files
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IDT include file are commonly used for Holidays, Moon Phases, Birthdays, Paydays etc.
You can create these files yourself. They are simply text files that
end with a .IDT extension. You place these files into the the directory
that contains your calendar files. You should find a couple of .IDT
files distributed with your calendar software. You optionally
choose to include these IDT data files onto your calendars from the Administration
Add-Ins calendar page. IDT
Details will describe how to create your own files. Below are
some idt files you can download and use.
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iFrames to embed calendars in web pages
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iFrames permit your web pages to pull the contents of other web pages
into table cells and other html structures. This allows dynamic calendars to be
part of your web page content. Here are a couple of examples of what can be
done with this technique.
Embed a mini calendar
Embed a full week community calendar
Displaying the source of these web pages will show how iFrames are used to
accomplish the effect.
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Adding Graphical Images
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Adding graphical images to your calendar is easy to accomplish. It is
requires embedding a small amount of html into the text that is to
appear on the calendar. The images to appear can be located anywhere,
but it is easiest if you put these images into the iCal
installation folder.
Example for an image in your calendar directory
This code will work because the image ical2.jpg is installed with iCal program.
Use this as the text for a calendar event.
<IMG SRC="/ical2.jpg"> Cool!
Example for an image located somewhere on the network
<IMG SRC="http://www.brownbearsw.com/images/penguin.gif"> Cool!
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Side Bar Menu
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There is a clever trick that can be used to get a menu along the left side
of your calendar. This is accomplished by putting html code in the calendar
header and footer. Below are samples for the header and footer. You can
customize these to your own needs.
Sample Menu Calendar
is the result of using the header and footer code below.
This goes in the calendar header
</table>
<table width="100%" background="/images/background.jpg">
<tr><td>Side Bar Content goes here...</td>
<td><table>
This goes in the calendar footer
</table>
Yes, the table tags don't match up; the calendar generates some that
fit together with these. You may need to experiment a bit to get it
looking right :-)
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iCalMinder: A COOL little program to alert you of upcoming events
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This is slick little program donated by Gary Bishop gb@cs.unc.edu.
Feel free to send Gary compliments on this program!
It is a small Windows
application program that runs in the system tray. It will monitor
any iCal calendar for upcoming events. Download
iCalMinder.exe
and start the program. Right click on the calendar tray icon for help.
Sweet
and simple! You are also welcome to the
iCalMinderSrc.zip source code.
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