I want to add a monthly calendar to my website and to dispaly all birthday dates which is taken from the Genopro XML file.

I've found a nice free PHP calendar at:

http://www.bmgadg.com/ajax_calendar.php

But I don't know if it's possible to integrate the data From the Genopro XML database.

Maybe Ron can do something with that on His Report generator.

I wonder if this should be a free-standing Report or should it be integrated into the existing Narrative Report?

For example you could install the event calendar script on your own web page and just use a separate Report Generator skin to refresh the event data for the calendar, as and when required.

I am happy to tackle this either way, although it will be a week or two before I have some time to delve further.

I prefer a stand-alone skin to generate an html code which will display the calender, so I'll be able to put this calendar on the root page of my website.

If it's not a problem, maybe a solution is to make it possible on both ways: A stand alone skin and also a calendar-script integrated on the current report.

Hi Maru-San

What a beautiful implementation of the calendar feature.

Well done

How can I add such a calendar into my report?

Is it possible also to generate another  "stand-alone" calendar to put on the root-page of the site (a page which is external to the genopro report)? I understand that in this method the Links to the "individual pages" might not work, and it would be a "Static" Calendar, but it could be nice too.

Thanks

Kobi

You will also be able to run the same code in a separate skin just to generate the data file (calendarevents.js) to populate your own Calendar on your web page (providing you are using Rick Pike's Javascript calendar refered to in my post and illustrated by maru-san). The links could still be made to work, e.g. by adding an HTML 'base' tag to your page with an href attribute pointing to your Narrative Report folder.

Both reports take fixed text , including month & day names, from Dictionary.xml so that it can be translated to other languages if required.

I have some more work to do on the calendar at a later date. I would like the styling to be handled via the style.css stylesheet rather than being hardcoded in layercalendar.js. Also it should perhaps generate two or more years of birthdays/anniversaries rather than one year as at present.

Update 24/08/07 Amended skins

I got the following error, but it's only on my famili tree:

Error en la línea 37, posición 2 (calendarevents.js): No coinciden los tipos: '[string: "(null)"]' Error de Microsoft VBScript en tiempo de ejecución 800A000D

 I tried with other sample files and there's no generation problem, but I can't see the calendar in the generated report, is there any additional required plugin?

Line: 26
Char: 1
Error: Object expected
Code: 0
Url: calendar.htm

PS.I'm using IE6SP2, GenoPro2.0.0.9, Skin 2.0.1.0.RC4

Thanks,

Hugo

As regards your first problem, possibly you have a marriage date without any year? I will need to check for this.

Ron (8/13/2007)

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Thanks Hugo. I was perhaps a bit hasty in posting (as usual!). I had only tested with Firefox which works fine. As you have found IE (I tried IE7) doesn't display the calendar. I'll work on the IE issue. Don't you just love cross-browser compatibility!

As regards your first problem, possibly you have a marriage date without any year? I will need to check for this.

Many thanks Ron, you are right, it's a marriage date without year.

I also download a firefox browser, so I can finally see it... It's a perfect solution for somebody like me with a non-stick memory... (I always forget almost all birthdays Congratulations Ron! It's excellent.

A suggestion... the calendar it's only filled from the generation date and on... could it be filled from the beginning of the year? or at least from the beginning of the current month?

Regards,

Hugo

I looked into this and discovered a # missing before the colour code in layercalendar.js so should be OK now. There will be more control once I convert to using CSS styles.

I need Dan to look at this and tell me how the html filenames are generated by GenoPro. In the Narrative report they are available in the 'Href' property but this is blank in the standaalone report, hence the requirement to generate them. Currently I just strip accents & punctuation and use the outputfile template from Config.xml

When I was trying to generate a report using the new skins, I could see the calender but not the events. The same problem also on the Stand-Alone version.

The Calendarevents.js, is not containing any data except :

Of course , The GNO file that I used, was with many individuals and dates.

There could be an issue with locale. The script uses the vbscript function IsDate to check for valid dates. Does your Windows locale match your GenoPro date formats? Perhaps I should recode to avoid IsDate.

Update: scripts amended to avoid IsDate

I went to the Control Panel of WinXP and changed the date format from Hebrew to English(US). Now I can see the events.

 On RC6 it seems to work also on the Hebrew date format only on one of my gno files. I tried to generate the report from a big GNO, and it's not working. I can't see the events. I attach the file.

I've also noticed that it's possible to see only future events. for example: My birthday is on 23 Feb. I could see this event only at 23 Feb 2008 and not at 23 Feb 2007 (Current year).

Also, when I click on the event link, it goes to "Harry Potter" family tree and not to my tree.(I've checked the stand-alone version) 

on the full skin, the link is broken.

I found a problem in the distribution of the days in the table     
If the months are translated in the dictionary.xml file, then the script doesn't find the correct month, and make a bad distribution on the table (the first day of the month always begins in Sunday )

If the months are not translated, then it's ok...

Also I found that some links are not working in the calendar (Narrative_2.0.1.0RC5.zip) , so I compare the links and I found this:
In aniversaries, missing the prefix "family-"
file:///C:/Familiograma/VictorOrtizFloresElizabethEsquivelCervantes-fam00019.htm --calendar link
file:///C:/Familiograma/family-VictorOrtizFloresAndElizabethEsquivelCervantes-fam00019.htm --in any other part in the report

Missing dot
file:///C:/Familiograma/Melgar-MaEstela-ind00531.htm --calendar link
file:///C:/Familiograma/Melgar-Ma.Estela-ind00531.htm  ----in any other part in the report

file:///C:/Familiograma/Martagon-MadelCarmen-ind00251.htm --calendar link
file:///C:/Familiograma/Martagon-Ma.delCarmen-ind00251.htm --in any other part in the report

The "ñ" is replaced with "n"
file:///C:/Familiograma/Carca%C3%B1o-Dolores-ind00331.htm --calendar link
file:///C:/Familiograma/Carcano-Dolores-ind00331.htm  --in any other part in the report

if name is missing then there should be only one "-"
file:///C:/Familiograma/Morales--ind01417.htm  --calendar link
file:///C:/Familiograma/Morales-ind01417.htm  --in any other part in the report

Regards,

Hugo

e.g: Look at the attached photo.

It is written:  "Ruth רות Adut 20 אדוט th birthday"

instead of:     "Ruth רות Adut אדוט l 20th birthday"  (Skip the " l " symbol)

Thanks, almost all problems are fixed in Narrative_2.0.1.0RC7.zip but the problem with the "ñ" still there (I think I was not clear, apologies for inconvenience...), what I meant was the "ñ" must be remplaced with the "n"

file:///C:/Familiograma/Carcaño-Dolores-ind00331.htm --Version 2.0.1.0RC6
file:///C:/Familiograma/Carcao-Dolores-ind00331.htm --Version 2.0.1.0RC7
file:///C:/Familiograma/Carcano-Dolores-ind00331.htm  --This is the OK link

And I found a problem with anniversaries... the Anniversaries are calculated ok for current year, but in 2008 keep the same value as it was 2007...

pe. A wedding in 1 sep 2006 is calculated on sep 2007 as first annivesary --->It's OK
    but....
A wedding in 1 jun 2006 is calculated on jun 2008 as first annivesary -->must be the 2nd

Regards,

Hugo

Found a hidden 'feature' in Report Generator - i.Href & f.Href only get generated when template present in Config.xml. So instead of trying to generate the html filename I have simply added dummy templates individual.htm & family.htm in the standalone skin so can now use i.Href & f.Href so links should match Narrative Report.

I'm confused by bidirectional stuff and so I have fixed this issue with a hack - I place 'nth birthday' bit in a <span> element with dir='ltr' attribute. This seems to stop the browser placing the rtl (e.g. Hebrew) name to the right of the number.

Fixed anniversaries and also now populate calendar with events from the beginning of the current year.

Regards,

Hugo

The problem is still sometimes there. Here is an example

Ok I'll look further. It would be helpful if you could post or send me a small sample .gno file with mixed English/Hebrew names.

You can just set the required value in a 'S' attribute for each day of the week in the Dictionary <DateFormatting> section e.g.

It all looks OK now with your test file.

I found this useful tutorial on dealing with bidirectional text in HTML.

Thanks Ron

The Frameset issue was solved now I'm so Happy to have that great feature.

I Would suggest to change the line:

document.write("<FONT SIZE=1>" + tmp + "</FONT>");

into:

document.write("<FONT SIZE=2>" + tmp + "</FONT>");

It's much readable that way.

I'll look into it, also the picture thingy.

With the picture name, there were some typos in the Config Params in the Dictionary. Show picture name below picture? should be Hide picture name below picture?. Also fUsePictureID should be fUsePictureId. I have also changed picture name to picture title to reflect the fact that the 'Picture Name' field in GenoPro does not have to be the filename - you change it to any title you wish (and you do not have to rename your pictures!).

I have found a little bug in the calendar. Whenever I have a birthday on the current date, it displays the age as if the person was becoming a year older. Only happens when the birthday matches the current day.

And I have a request... is there a way to print in the calendar also birthdays of people whom I do not have the year of birth, but I have the rest of the date???

Thanks,

PACO LUNA

If someone has a birthday today and you generate a report on the same day that he has a birthday, the calendar will show that he is older in one year then he really is.

e.g:

1. create an individual who has a birthday today and he is 1 years old. (He was born last year at the same day).

2, generate a stand-alone calendar report

3. the result will be that he is 2 !! years old. of course - it's a mistake.

Hugo reported a similar problem earlier and this has been fixed in the Narrative Report version of the calendar and my testing does not show this problem. I do not intend to maintain the standalone version as the code is identical to the one embedded in the Narrative Report. Could you try replacing the layercalendar.js and calendarevents.js files in your standalone skin with the sames files from the latest Narrative Report skin and see if that fixes it?

I did what you have suggested, but the same problem remains.

The problem is still there even when I generate a full report using the default english skin

O.k - first I'm sorry - I was using by mistake ver 2.0.1.0.  on ver 2.0.1.1 the problem is gone using the english report.

However - I tried again to replace the layercalendar.js and calendarevents.js files in my standalone skin with the sames files from the latest Narrative Report skin (ver 2.0.1.1) but I get this error message and non of the events are dispalyed.

I hope that you could fix also the stand alone version on that matter.

Thank you