ZK Calendar Essentials/Component Attributes

In this section, a brief overview is given on how developers work with the ZK Calendar component.

The Calendar Component

ZK Calendar is a single ZK component. Developers could declare it within any ZK container components, such as Window, tabs, groupbox, etc.

For example:

<window title="Bare ZK Calendar" border="normal">
	<calendars />
</window>

which renders:

The bare <calendars> declaration uses default values for its attributes.

Component Attributes

Developers can customize the calendars component by its attributes in a zul.

days

Default: 7

Sets the days displayed in the default mold, that is, how many columns will be displayed.

readonly

Default: false

If it's true, an end-user cannot create, edit, or move an item on the Calendars.

firstDayOfWeek

Default: Sunday

Determine the first day of a week to be displayed on the calendar.

mold

Supported values:

• default: displays a "date-time" format in which it displays hours of the day and days of a week.
• monthly: displays the days in a month.

The Default Mold

In the default mold, the content of the calendar is separated into two parts. The main component area is where date time events are displayed and the top of the Calendar component is used to display the daylong event.

The Month Mold

In the month mold, the content of each day has no background color, the text is colored and the item over one day has a background color with white text. When using the month mold, each row represents one week.

By just changing one attribute ZK affords us exceptional power. But how do we change this attribute? The next section explains how.

timeZone

Default: java.util.TimeZone.getDefault()

You can set one or more time zones.

<calendars timeZone="Finland=GMT+2, Taiwan=GMT+8"/>

width , height

Set the size of the component, for example:

<calendars width="400px" height="600px"/>

beginTime

Default: 0

Supported Value: an integer between 0 - 23

Sets the beginning hour of a day.

<calendars beginTime="8"/>

Add Application Logic

If you want to add, remove, or show items on a Calendars, please read Implementing Event Listeners.

The example project is at Github