Kentico Event Calendars in multiple locations

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I've been asked if the internal sales site i built can support multiple event calendars. What they would like is a calendar for each group and a global. So the global calendar will shows global and events from each group. The Group Calendars would only show their relevant events.

So i added folders to my Event node, and added some test pages. They show in the global event since it's path is ./%. Great.

For a group (Compliance), it's path is /events/compliance/%. This works, and the Compliance calendar only shows events in within the specified folder.

But.

Each event node's url is based on the global path so /event/compliance/event-1.aspx. This takes the user out of the group section and breaks the user flow. I'd like the group specific events to still apear with their URL stucture. So like this, /Our-Company/Compliance/Calendar-of-Events/event-1.aspx.

I could have the group specific events with their node, but then i loose all the vents on the global calendar. So is there a way for a single calendar to pull events from multiple locations within the tree?

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2 Answers

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You have a couple options:

  1. Use linked pages. This would allow you to have a global location and simply have a "copy" in a different location (for navigation purposes really). Nice part is if update one of those linked pages, it updates them all so no worries about outdated content.
  2. Categorize your events. Little more effort involved with this one but will work the same.
  3. Set the WHERE statement to filter on the NodeAliasPath. You'd do something like this

Path = /%
Where = "NodeAliasPath LIKE '/GlobalEvents/%' OR NodeAliasPath LIKE '/Groups/Compliance/Events/%'"

3 is probably your best bet and if you want to make it more dynamic you can use macros in your where condition.

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I agree with Brenden especially #2. #2 is going to give you the most flexibility and control over querying global items into multiple areas, but also gives you a single management location. We use that method on almost all of our projects and is both easy to manage but also easy to teach your content contributors how to use it the best.

The only other recommendation I would give is also include some kind of flag field where you can prioritize those items on a calendar list view. We often have a requirement that things do not only show up by date order, but also that certain calendar events take priority in sorting. Where you might not use that upfront, having that available down the road is some good forward thinking.