How to add a calendar to your Joomla site using JEvents Print

Events Calendar, also known as JEvents, is a well-liked calendar extension for Joomla

1) As with all extensions we'll be showing you, start by going to extensions.joomla.org. Then, navigate to the Calendars & Events / Events category and find the Events Calendar page

2) Click Download

 

3) Open the Files tab

 

If you need assistance with finding or installing extensions, watch the first two tutorials in this series

 

For maximum functionality, it's recommended that you install all of the extensions listed here, as we will. The only thing that's required, though, is the component

4) Once all packages have been installed, go to Components

 

5) Then, go to JEvents MVC

 

6) After it sets up the database, click continue

 

Next, you will be directed to verify that the configuration is correct. The defaults should work just fine for our purposes

 

Glance over the settings in every tab and change whatever you want, then scroll right

 

7) Click Save

 

 

A default calendar and category should have already been created for you

 

Let's add an event

 

8) Click New

 

9) Type a subject for the event

10) Select a category to place it in

11) Adjust anything else you want on this page, then proceed to the Calendar tab

12) Set a Start and End date

13) If this is a repeating event, select the correct repetition interval

 

14) Click Save

 

 

Let's enable the Search plugin for this component

 

15) Extensions

 

 

16) Plugin Manager

 

Scroll down and locate the correct plugin

 

17) If necessary, click Next

 

18) Click the X to enable this search plugin

 

Next, let's add this extension to our site

 

19) Go to Menus

 

20) Choose the menu you want to contain a link to the calendar

 

Scroll right

 

21) Click New

 

22) Select JEvents MVC

 

 

There are a number of views that you can choose for this component

 

23) We'll choose Monthly Calendar

 

24) Enter a title

 

25) Open the Component parameters and scroll right

 

You'll need to specify at least one event category using the select boxes here

 

26) Choose the one our event is in

 

Scroll up

 

27) Click Save

 

 

Now, enable and rearrange the modules instances that were created automatically when we installed the four modules

28) Go to Extensions

 

29) Then Module Manager

 

30) Enter jevent here to display only those modules we're looking for

31) Press Go

 

32) Click here to select all the modules listed below

33) Then, click Enable

 

The first module displays a mini calendar. Let's make some more changes to it

 

34) Click here

35) Click No to hide the title

 

Change the title, if you want

 

36) Alter the position...

37) ...then the order

 

 

Scroll down

 

38) Change the menu assignment to ensure this module only shows up on the home page

39) Click Home

 

 

Scroll back up

 

40) Click Save

 

41) On your own, place the next module underneath the previous one in the same fashion

 

42) Repeat with the final two modules, this time placing them both in the left column on the Calendar page only

 

43) When finished, go check out the changes we made to the site

 

44) Click Preview

 

45) Here's the Calendar link we made

 

Scroll down and right

 

The first two modules show up correctly here, too

46) Click View Full Calendar

 

And here's the calendar, itself

 

Notice that the event we made shows up here

 

The Legend and Theme Switcher both show up where we placed them

 

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to add a calendar to your Joomla site using JEvents