Displaying Calendar Items

Component in MVC Pattern

In the component perspective, Calendars is designed in MVC pattern:

• Calendars (Controller): call ContentRenderer to render a calendar to the client-side, dispatch UI events to the corresponding event listeners, receives events from CalendarModel then render a calendar upon changed CalendarItem
• CalendarModel (Model): stores CalendarItem
• ContentRenderer (View): renders a calender-related data to the client-side upon CalendarModel

Create a CalendarModel

Since 3.0.0

Base on the above architecture, if you want to show some items on a Calendar, you need to create some CalendarItem objects, put them into a CalendarModel, and assign the model to Calendars. The default implementation, DefaultCalendarItem and SimpleCalendarModel, are sufficient for most requirements.

You can instantiate a SimpleCalendarModel with a collection of DefaultCalendarItem or add a DefaultCalendarItem after instantiation.

private SimpleCalendarModel model;
...
    model = new SimpleCalendarModel(CalendarItemGenerator.generateList());
    DefaultCalendarItem calendarItem = new DefaultCalendarItem("my title",
                "my content",
                null,
                null,
                false,
                LocalDateTime.now().truncatedTo(ChronoUnit.HOURS),
                LocalDateTime.now().truncatedTo(ChronoUnit.HOURS).plusHours(2)
    model.add(calendarItem);

Assign the Model to Calendars

After creating a SimpleCalendarModel, we need to associate a component with the model, so that Calendar will render items to a browser.

public class DisplayComposer extends SelectorComposer {

    @Wire("calendars")
    private Calendars calendars;
    private SimpleCalendarModel model;

    @Override
    public void doAfterCompose(Component comp) throws Exception {
        super.doAfterCompose(comp);
        initModel();
        calendars.setModel(model);
    }

Customizing Calendar Item Appearance

since 3.1.0

From calendar 3.1.0 and onward, SimpleCalendarItem supports sclass, style, contentStyle and headerStyle attributes.

the sclass attribute will add a CSS class on the top DOM node of the calendar item, which allow the whole element to be used in a css selector.

    calendarItem.setSclass("myClass");

    .myClass{ //selector for the whole node
        //my-css-property: myValue;
    }
    .myClass .z-calitem-body{ //selector for a sub-node
        //my-css-property: myValue;
    }

This is a good way to assign styles to categories of items.

If you need to assign styles to individual items, you can use the style, contentStyle and headerStyle properties instead:

Areas targeted by each style attributes

    calendarItem.setStyle("background-color: #0093f9"); //affects the whole item
    calendarItem.setStyle("background-color: red; color: white;"); //affects the header node, may override setStyle for this node
    calendarItem.setStyle("background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: white;"); //affects the content node, may override setStyle for this node

before 3.1.0

Before calendar 3.1.0, only the background color can be customized for the calendar item's main Node with the contentColor attribute, and the header's node with the headerColor attribute. These are deprecated after 3.1.0, and should be replaced by style attributes.

The example project is at Github