This page type is used to retrieve and display calendar events both local to your ACM installation as well as calendar events from other installations of the ACM. With additional settings in your configuration files, you can also display events from the Asset Service system. All of these events, regardless of where they originate, can be displayed on a single calendar, and in accordance with the settings you will define when creating the syndicated calendar page.
Note: If site groups are enabled, a separate web service must be generated for each site group in the instance.
Select a location for the calendar by navigating to the page that will be its parent page.
On the Admin toolbar, mouse over the Add Childpage button and select the Syndicated Calendar page. The Page Editor is displayed with the new page ready for editing. If you do not see the Add Childpage button it means you do not have sufficient user rights to edit the current page.
Complete the fields in the Page Summary section of the new page.
In the General Properties section, enter the optional Teaser text.
The next three sections allow you to define where the events will be pulled from for display on your calendar! For events created within the current location in the ACM, complete the Local Calendar Event Source section.
If you are linking to calendar events that are syndicated from a different source, you can identify that source (page) here and configure the categories of events you wish to display on the published calendar page.
If you are pulling events from another remote installation of the ACM, complete the Remote Calendar Event Sources section.
If you are integrated with the Asset Service system, complete the Asset Service Event Source section.
Now that you have indicated where the events will be pulled from, you can proceed to format the calendar. Do this by completing the Calendar Properties section.
Complete the Table Calendar Properties section.
Complete the Table Calendar Day View Properties.
Complete the Table Calendar Week View Properties.
Show All Days or Show Only Days with Events: Select whether to display all of the days of the calendar or only those that have events.
Highlight Current Date: You can set the calendar so that the current date (today's date) is highlighted in a specific color. You can then select the color by clicking on the Choose link.
Display Event Description: You can elect to display a portion of the event description on the table calendar view. You must specify if the number of words of the description using the Show first words field. The default is to show the first 30 words of the description.
Display Event Thumbnail Image: If the event has an image associated with it you can opt to display that image on the table calendar, in thumbnail size.
Complete the Table Calendar Month View Properties
Click Save and proceed.
Make desired changes to the List Calendar Properties section.
Edit the List Calendar Day View Properties.
Make edits to the List Calendar Week View Properties as required.
Complete the List Calendar Month View Properties settings.
If will be using the featured event functionality, complete the Featured Event Properties section.
Configure how you want the search work by completing the Calendar Search Properties section.
Click Save and proceed.
Complete the View Mode Properties section
Complete the End User Properties section
Add your images and text to the Introduction and the Conclusion boxes.
Click Save and submit for publication.
