next »

[jbadler]

For my calendar, I have a custom event field called "category".  I have several options for this category, each of which has a value and display text.  For example, "junchoir" for value and "Junior Choir" for display text.  I have the following line in my template:

<% FOREACH EVENT %><%= EVENT FIELD(category) %><% /FOREACH %>

This returns the value "junchoir", but I want the template to return the display text "Junior Choir".  How do I go about doing this?  I want to avoid simply changing the value to match the display text, because I don't want to run into problems with having spaces, etc in my SSI calls.

Thanks!

[DanO]

** "junchoir" for value and "Junior Choir" for display text. **

Why not have them both "Junior Choir"?

Dan O.

------------------

[jbadler]

"I want to avoid simply changing the value to match the display text, because I don't want to run into problems with having spaces, etc in my SSI calls."

Granted, I know that's probably a little paranoid, and it will probably work fine, I just wanted to see if there was a simple solution I was missing.

[DanO]

The name/value pairs for select fields are stored in a separate database. You would need to open that other record each and every time such a value needed to be displayed. That would likely increase the server overhead when using the calendar.

If you really want to do it that way, you could look through the HTML.pm file located in the calendarscript/lib directory to see how it is done there to get an idea what would be needed to do something similar in the calendar display.

Dan O.

------------------