Adding Projects and ProjectTask to calendar?

pstevens · 25 April 2024 20:30

This is my first foray into “the calendar”. I’ve got a project for a kitchen remodeller and I’d like to use Projects as “Jobs” and of course the related tasks.

I see in Calendar that there are two commented out lines in:

/modules/Calendar/Calendar.php

"ProjectTask" => array("showCompleted" => true,"start" =>  "date_start", "end" => "date_finish"),    
"Project" => array("showCompleted" => true,"start" =>  "estimated_start_date", "end" => "estimated_end_date")

It looks like this was a planed future addtion…

Uncommenting them out seems to make them appear on the calender (kind of). Project tasks look ok, however, Projects just show the start date, and then the end date and don’t show up like an Event would that would span over a few days.

I see there are a few threads already, many with no answers and a couple that basically say add the lines above. I’ve tried to delve through all the other related files. Hope if someone has done this before you can point me in the right place and save some time.

Basicallly, I’m looking to make Projects show up properly as a multi-day event.

It would be nice to add Cases as well (I’m using those for service calls). I think cases are easy becasue they would be one day events, it’s the multi-day projects I cant get to show over multiple days.

pgr · 26 April 2024 08:22

One of my very old, still open PR’s on GitHub is a calendar feature:

Have a look at it too see how to change the options passed to fullcalendar, the underlying package.

I don’t know if it’s the same mechanism when used from projects but I would assume that it is.

EDIT: here’s the link:

github.com/salesagility/SuiteCRM

Add options in Calendar: event limit and week numbers

salesagility:hotfix-7.10.x ← pgorod:patch-19

opened 05:23PM - 10 Jan 20 UTC

pgorod

+97 -24

## Description In our calendar, an unreasonably low limit (1!) of entries were …allowed to be shown in each day, in Month view. This causes the calendar to be really hard to use. As soon as a second event was scheduled in a day, none of the actual events show, and only "+2 more" would be shown. ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/15945027/72154279-28c8ec00-33a8-11ea-8515-e246c006ca22.png) I believe this was probably just caused by a misunderstanding of how to use the [`fullCalendar` parameter `eventLimit`](https://fullcalendar.io/docs/eventLimit). This fix simply introduces a more reasonable limit, 6. The downside is that the calendar will use variable row heights and that doesn't make it look very neat. But only a better fullcalendar package could solve this. And it's not a very fancy looking calendar anyway, so I believe (from experience) that having a minimum of visibility into what your Calendar actually contains is preferable to any alignment quirk. ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/15945027/72171887-c4b81f00-33cb-11ea-84c9-be96ba618199.png) ## How To Test This - Make the change, rebuild JS - add a good number of events on the same day, checking how the Month view looks like as you add appointments - when the number of events hits the limit, a "+2 more" tag starts showing. ## Types of changes - [X] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue) - [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality) - [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change) ### Final checklist - [X] My code follows the code style of this project found [here](htps://docs.suitecrm.com/community/contributing-code/coding-standards/). - [ ] My change requires a change to the documentation. - [X] I have read the [**How to Contribute**](https://docs.suitecrm.com/community/contributing-code/) guidelines.

pstevens · 26 April 2024 12:54

Thanks @pgr I spent all last night going through all the calendar files. From what I’m seeing for things like tasks it makes the start date= end date show it only shows one day on the calender. I made a bunch of mods and exceptions for Projects to have an actual end date but still no luck. I’ll keep at it. Thanks I’ll check your PR on Github.