Google Calendar: Day settings wants to be wonky

[snooze]

Hope this is just my tired old eyes and someone will set me straight.

I want to add the Day of the week to the calendar settings. When I add %dayname% or %weekday% in the format string, the variable definition shows and not the day.

Al the other date/time variables work as predefined. I have even change several to suit the formatting I want and the refreshed result is correct.

Whassamatter?

[Harm10]

Those formatting tags are not described in the documentation. Are you sure these should work?

[snooze]

In two places in the configuration I am referred by link to:

http://book.pivotx.net/page/app-d

I just assumed that these would work for all date/time functions since others, i.e. start and end use them too.

%dname% and %ampm% don't work either. Wonder if there is a field or string length limit. ::grabbing::

[Harm10]

Looking at the code all date formatting options should work when specified in parm format_date_start and format_date_end.
So maybe you could paste the exact code you are using? You can't specify them in any of the other parms.

[hansfn]

snooze, maybe you should provide the code you are using. It's so much easier to fix a problem or help you if we see exactly what you do. (%dname% and %ampm% should definitely work.)

[snooze]

Code? Me? I just plug it in. Here's screenshots. This using %dname%; others display the same.

From the Google Calendar config page


The Rendered Calendar

[hansfn]

A screen shot is also illustrating. It's very clear what you do wrong. It's inside "Format for start/end date'" that you can use %dname% and so. In other words, "Format for start/end date'" specifies what "%date_start%"/"%date_end%" should be replaced with. Did that makes sense?

[snooze]

Not really.

I want a long date that reads, "Friday, January 28, 2011 - 7:00 PM"

How would that be set up?

The distinction is between day, which is Monday, Tuesday, etc and date, which would be 28, 29, etc.

[hansfn]

I don't understand how you aren't getting this - did you even try? To spell it out:

The default values are:

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Output format:         <li><a href=\"%link%\">%title%</a> - <span class='date'>%date_start%-%date_end%</span></li>
Format for start date: %day%-%month%-'%ye% %hour24%:%minute%
Format for end date:   %hour24%:%minute%

And as you have read, you can use the standard PivotX date formatting options in format for start/end date - not in the output format.

So: To get something like "Friday, January 28, 2011 - 7:00 PM", you should use something like:

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Format for start date: %dayname%, %month% %ordday%, %year% - %hour12%:%minute% %ampm%
Format for end date:   %hour12%:%minute% %ampm%

[snooze]

I Got it, finally!!!

It's one variable sequence that defines input for another variable.

Thanks so much for your patience. I think I will work on a docs submission for this. I was a technical writer in a previous life.