I really like CouchCMS and its calendar function. I'm setting up a site with events on every Friday and Saturday and sometimes on Sunday. Right now, I'm using list view with a js function that uses CSS to switch between the calendar grid showing limited info (performer, date, and time) and an agenda view for a month showing much more info (event description, add to calendar link, reservation link). This works fine for a small number of events, but I'm concerned about page speed and length when the calendar gets fuller.
In getting this far, I abandoned page view for individual events, partly because I didn't see how to set up links so site visitors could quickly jump to the previous and next events. Now I'm considering using page view so I can reduce the data in list view, especially including only an excerpt instead of a full description. I'm thinking in particular of usability for mobile users, who might give up on a slow loading page or develop scroll fatigue from an overlong page.
I checked in the forum for linking to previous and next events with no success. I found a few ideas for linking to prev/next blog posts, but I didn't run across anything that seemed to work for events in theory or in practice. I want to skip any dates that have no events, so using dates for prev/next links seems unlikely. I already have events to enter for July 2018, so the post ids will not be in sequence. I didn't see anything from <cms:dump_all /> that seemed likely to help. Any tips on how to handle this?
Thanks,
Tim
In getting this far, I abandoned page view for individual events, partly because I didn't see how to set up links so site visitors could quickly jump to the previous and next events. Now I'm considering using page view so I can reduce the data in list view, especially including only an excerpt instead of a full description. I'm thinking in particular of usability for mobile users, who might give up on a slow loading page or develop scroll fatigue from an overlong page.
I checked in the forum for linking to previous and next events with no success. I found a few ideas for linking to prev/next blog posts, but I didn't run across anything that seemed to work for events in theory or in practice. I want to skip any dates that have no events, so using dates for prev/next links seems unlikely. I already have events to enter for July 2018, so the post ids will not be in sequence. I didn't see anything from <cms:dump_all /> that seemed likely to help. Any tips on how to handle this?
Thanks,
Tim