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Has anyone had any success building an event calendar (with real calendar, links to events, down-loadable charts to print out) with EE?

I’m not certain what you mean, ‘with real calendar, links to events, down-loadable charts to print out’; but I’ve used EE to build a number of successful calendars.  See http://www.stepscoalition.org/events/ as an example.  I found EE to be very flexible about creating it, and really loved the fact that I could create any custom fields I needed.  For example the Steps’ calendar handles event logos and banners; images can be used within the body, agendas, minutes, or other PDF and or Word/Excel/Powerpoint files can be attached, etc.  That’s not to say there aren’t some limitations—like it would be great to be able to have a banner in the month view of an event that is longer than two days. But in all honesty outside of multi-day event banners, I’m not certain what other things I’d hope for (but admittedly I don’t use it as my personal calendar, if I did, I want a quick entry bookmarklet).

Your events calendar is EXACTLY what I am trying to achieve… 😊 Now I have hope!!! YEAH!! Thank you for all your very valuable info.

If I may ask though, how did you achieve the previous and next links for the months?

In the month view of the calendar the previous and next links are created just using the EE calendar tag code.  The {previous_path=events/index} and {next_path=events/index}  tags.

Wow, that calendar implementation is exactly what we need too. Would you be willing to post that for use by others?

I’m not certain what you would have me post. The basics of the calendar is pure EE just using the basic

{exp:weblog:calendar switch="calendarToday|calendarCell" weblog="calendar" show_future_entries="yes" orderby="date" sort="asc"}

tag and associated code directly from the User’s Guide.

The biggest issue was the CSS (making it all look nice). And I have to give Sean Sparte and Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain props for really inspiring me, by creating the calendar they did for the City Church.  It took some fiddling around, but I got the CSS working, the way I wanted, and now whenever I want a calendar, I just copy and paste the CSS, then adapt the colors.  So feel free to pull-up the stylesheet and take a look. The section should be marked.

Wow, I thought this was custom programming, I didn’t know you could display a calendar like that using EE. I’m still a newbie, but am amazed at the functionality built into this software. This is going to make my life a whole lot easier!

It really is great, and I know personally, I’m content with the functionality provided by just using a weblog in EE, but lots of people also add on the Re-peet Plugin (possible Module) for additional functionality. It handles events that are longer than a day, and some other items. But you can check the forums. Mr. Wilson is a well respected developer of EE modules, etc.