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Quite often you have the requirement to list events, news, references or whatever in a cronological order on your webpage. The tt_news extension of Typo3 is capable to do a lot of things. Though it is quite complex to configure it to your needs.

One missing feature is a calendar view of the upcoming events. With newscalendar you can do this.

As of version 1.10 newscalendar uses the jQuery tools from flowplayer.org. In my (news-) template I configured my own css for calendar and context menu and I modified the default images of the tooltip background (live demo on doris.bigga.de/vortraege/):

plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.calendar.startWeekDay = 1
plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.file.cssContextMenu = fileadmin/templates/doris/css/cssContextMenu.css
plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.file.cssCalendar = fileadmin/templates/doris/css/cssCalendar.css
plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.file.jsJQueryTooltip = fileadmin/templates/doris/js/jquery.tools.min.js

In the last statement I include my own version of the jquery tools. I just changed the statement "relative:false" into "relative:true". Otherwise the tooltip isn't shown above the date but somewhere because the javascript misscalculates the position.

I added a bugreport to the typo3 forge bugtracker: http://forge.typo3.org/issues/show/5313

UPDATE (2009-11-26):

There seems to be a lot of development in progress. Today version 2.1.1 is online and my bug is fixed because the jQuerytooltip has been dropped. So I disabled the two lines in the template again:

# plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.file.cssContextMenu = fileadmin/templates/doris/css/cssContextMenu.css

# plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.file.jsJQueryTooltip = fileadmin/templates/doris/js/jquery.tools.min.js

Now I can modify the default scheme by (e.g.):

plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.tip.backgroundColor=#E3EECB

plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.tip.borderWidth=2

plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.tip.positions='top'

UPDATE (2010-02-03):

Today version 2.1.4 is online. Fixing errors which has already been fixed and got lost in 2.1.2. Confusing.