Add Category in Table view

Hi,
There are issus when using colors, if you put an event in multiple categories the color is ignored.
I'm looking for a work karound and since my categories are just one word i would like to use the category name as a css style.
In orde to get this working I need to add the category to the Table view.
It seems there are is no way to add this form the configuration.
Could you please inform how one can add the category information in the table view for each event seperately?

Hi

Could you please send me the link to "Table view" page on your site? In Events Booking, each event can be assigned to different categories, so if you want to display categories in table view, you will have to prepare to customize the code.

I will guide you if needed. But first, I need to have the link to the page so that I can understand exactly what you are trying to do

Tuan

Sure: this is the table-view: www.powerview.be/dev/agenda

As you can see on that page I also use the categories module, there i have made some css styles with the same name as the category title. We only need to use 2 colors. If I could add the same category-name to an event my problem would be solved.
But I must say that it is a shame that you can only use the colors-field that is available in the category-settings in de calendar-view. For me the ability to use colors was the USP to buy this component.

Hi Ronny

Sorry but I still don't understand what you are trying to do :

1. You want to add category of event (as a new column in the table)

2. Or you want to have some way to color the row which display in the table ?

BTW, I don't think use color in Category view won't be the USP to buy this component. To be honest, this is the first time I receive the request for this feature

Tuan

Answer 2. Every event from the same category should have te same background color (like in the calendar view).

Final question before I can help you edit the code to make it possible: In your case, each event will only belong to a category, correct ?

Tuan

I'm afraid not. It wil belong to one category and multiple additional categories.
Isn't is possible to use only the main_category to assign the color ?
I only need 2 color, so we could do 2 main categories and all the rest would be children. But then de children would have multiple additional categories...

Hi

I understand it now. And Yes, we can use main category (I forgot I added that main category selection).

OK. So I made some change to the code to make it easier for you to style each row. So please :

1. Get this file, unzip if and upload it to components/com_eventbooking/views/common folder

2. If you look at the file components/com_eventbooking/views/common/events_table.php now, you will see that I added the code to get category name and category id of the main category of each event and store them in $categoryName and $categoryId variable. Hope your remaining job is easy now. For example:

If you want to add the css class for tr tag, you can try

<tr class="<?php echo $categoryName; ?>">

I think you know code, correct ? So that above guide should be enough for you to make the customization

Tuan

Sorry. Forgot to upload the modified file

Tuan

That does the trick !

Thanks !