Does anyone know a good calendar solution for D8?

General Discussion
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For the new visit.cern site, I would like to show which days CERN is closed to visitor in a more visual way than a list of dates as it is currently shown: https://visit.cern/contacts (ugly isn’t it?).

The only working module I could find was Full Calendar, which is fine for full page calendar, but does not support a mini calendar block which would be neater.

The standard Calendar module is only on alpha release for D8 and I could not figure out how to make it work. I don’t have the prev-next arrow etc. Anyway it does not support mult-day events which is a problem for me as I need it.

And if I can dream aloud, I would even like to have a block that shows “We’re open” or “We’re closed” on the landing page or in the menu.

Any idea / suggestion is more than welcome.

François

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There is some tutorial here that explains calendar alternatives including the use case of mini calendars on blocks. Didn’t try it myself

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Hi Eduardo,

Thanks for your answer. Yes I saw it and tried to implement but as they say at then end of their article:

  • No support for date range: Lack of support for date ranges makes it hard to work with multi-day event scenarios.
  • No support for start & end date: Though we can setup two separate date fields for start and end date, multi-day events are not visible as multi-column rows in the calendar.

So no use for me.

I am really surprised to see most D7 modules about calendars have not been ported to D8.
For example, I was using a really simple module called " Availability Calendar" on D7. See: http://visit.cern/globe/availability
Event the “official” Calendar module is not yet officially released for D8.
There is a real lack of proper calendar solution on D8.

Best.

François

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Hi @briard

There is this new module to display anything you want in a calendar in Drupal.

Supports any type of date field extending date item from core, so it is a good solution for your use case (e.g. date range).

I’ll be happy to help implementation.

Just let me know!

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Hi Matthieu

Welcome to the forums, and thanks for taking the time to post!

Kindly note that the original question was posted two years ago.

That said, the calendar_view module still applies to D9 and is a good solution.

Thanks!